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Acknowledgements
Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German
Research Foundation) –Project-ID 255344185 – SPP 1784; Project-
ID 325871075 – SFB 1309, and Project-ID 393547839 – SFB 1361.
This project has received additional funding from the European
Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the
Marie
Skłodowska-Curie
grant
agreement
No
765266
(LightDyNAmics) and from the European Research Council (ERC)
under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation
programme under grant agreement No 741912 (EPiR).
Keywords: RNA modifications, epitranscriptome, queuosine,
galactosylation, mannosylation, mannosyl-queuosine.
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