The expanding world of tRNA modifications and their disease relevance

T Suzuki - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2021 - nature.com
Transfer RNA (tRNA) is an adapter molecule that links a specific codon in mRNA with its
corresponding amino acid during protein synthesis. tRNAs are enzymatically modified post …

tRNA dysregulation and disease

EA Orellana, E Siegal, RI Gregory - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract tRNAs are key adaptor molecules that decipher the genetic code during translation
of mRNAs in protein synthesis. In contrast to the traditional view of tRNAs as ubiquitously …

Quantitative analysis of tRNA abundance and modifications by nanopore RNA sequencing

MC Lucas, LP Pryszcz, R Medina, I Milenkovic… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) play a central role in protein translation. Studying them has been
difficult in part because a simple method to simultaneously quantify their abundance and …

High-resolution quantitative profiling of tRNA abundance and modification status in eukaryotes by mim-tRNAseq

A Behrens, G Rodschinka, DD Nedialkova - Molecular cell, 2021 - cell.com
Measurements of cellular tRNA abundance are hampered by pervasive blocks to cDNA
synthesis at modified nucleosides and the extensive similarity among tRNA genes. We …

Differential expression of human tRNA genes drives the abundance of tRNA-derived fragments

AG Torres, O Reina… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
The human genome encodes hundreds of transfer RNA (tRNA) genes but their individual
contribution to the tRNA pool is not fully understood. Deep sequencing of tRNA transcripts …

tRNA metabolism and neurodevelopmental disorders

AE Schaffer, O Pinkard, JM Coller - Annual review of genomics …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
tRNAs are short noncoding RNAs required for protein translation. The human genome
includes more than 600 putative tRNA genes, many of which are considered redundant …

Small non-coding RNAs in human cancer: function, clinical utility, and characterization

Z Zhang, J Zhang, L Diao, L Han - Oncogene, 2021 - nature.com
Small non-coding RNAs (sncRNAs) play critical roles in multiple regulatory processes,
including transcription, post-transcription, and translation. Emerging evidence reveals the …

Translational efficiency across healthy and tumor tissues is proliferation‐related

X Hernandez‐Alias, H Benisty, MH Schaefer… - Molecular systems …, 2020 - embopress.org
Different tissues express genes with particular codon usage and anticodon tRNA
repertoires. However, the codon–anticodon co‐adaptation in humans is not completely …

Functional characterization of the human tRNA methyltransferases TRMT10A and TRMT10B

E Vilardo, F Amman, U Toth, A Kotter… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The TRM10 family of methyltransferases is responsible for the N 1-methylation of purines at
position 9 of tRNAs in Archaea and Eukarya. The human genome encodes three TRM10 …

Multi‐omic profiling reveals an RNA processing rheostat that predisposes to prostate cancer

M Stentenbach, JA Ermer, DL Rudler… - EMBO Molecular …, 2023 - embopress.org
Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed malignancy and the third leading cause of
cancer deaths. GWAS have identified variants associated with prostate cancer susceptibility; …