Glucose binds and activates NSUN2 to promote translation and epidermal differentiation

This study was undertaken to determine the role of NSUN2 in epidermal homeostasis. Primary neonatal foreskin keratinocytes were obtained from discarded surgical samples at a California hospital. Samples were anonymous and not selected. NSUN2 was found to promote epidermal differentiation and alter translation using the methods of RNA-seq, CLIP-seq and Ribo-seq.