Epitranscriptome: review of top 25 most-studied RNA modifications

VA Arzumanian, GV Dolgalev, IY Kurbatov… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The alphabet of building blocks for RNA molecules is much larger than the standard four
nucleotides. The diversity is achieved by the post-transcriptional biochemical modification of …

Anticodon stem-loop tRNA modifications influence codon decoding and frame maintenance during translation

TJ Smith, RN Giles, KS Koutmou - Seminars in Cell & Developmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
RNAs are central to protein synthesis, with ribosomal RNA, transfer RNAs and messenger
RNAs comprising the core components of the translation machinery. In addition to the four …

Analysis of queuosine and 2-thio tRNA modifications by high throughput sequencing

CD Katanski, CP Watkins, W Zhang… - Nucleic Acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Queuosine (Q) is a conserved tRNA modification at the wobble anticodon position of tRNAs
that read the codons of amino acids Tyr, His, Asn, and Asp. Q-modification in tRNA plays …

Inosine and its methyl derivatives: Occurrence, biogenesis, and function in RNA

N Dutta, I Deb, J Sarzynska, A Lahiri - Progress in Biophysics and Molecular …, 2022 - Elsevier
Inosine is one of the most common post-transcriptional modifications. Since its discovery, it
has been noted for its ability to contribute to non-Watson-Crick interactions within RNA …

Extracurricular functions of tRNA modifications in microorganisms

AM Edwards, MA Addo, PC Dos Santos - Genes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) are essential adaptors that mediate translation of the genetic code.
These molecules undergo a variety of post-transcriptional modifications, which expand their …

On the track of the missing tRNA genes: a source of non-canonical functions?

R Ehrlich, M Davyt, I López, C Chalar… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Cellular tRNAs appear today as a diverse population of informative macromolecules with
conserved general elements ensuring essential common functions and different and …

Posttranscriptional modifications at the 37th position in the anticodon stem–loop of tRNA: structural insights from MD simulations

PS Prabhakar, NA Takyi, SD Wetmore - Rna, 2021 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
Transfer RNA (tRNA) is the most diversely modified RNA. Although the strictly conserved
purine position 37 in the anticodon stem–loop undergoes modifications that are …

Map** the tRNA modification landscape of Bartonella henselae Houston I and Bartonella quintana Toulouse

S Quaiyum, J Sun, V Marchand, G Sun… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Transfer RNA (tRNA) modifications play a crucial role in maintaining translational fidelity and
efficiency, and they may function as regulatory elements in stress response and virulence …

Chemical Synthesis of Modified RNA

L Flemmich, R Bereiter, R Micura - Angewandte Chemie, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Ribonucleic acids (RNAs) play a vital role in living organisms. Many of their cellular
functions depend critically on chemical modification. Methods to modify RNA in a controlled …

Molecular dynamics simulations of chemically modified ribonucleotides

V Piomponi, M Bernetti, G Bussi - RNA Structure and Function, 2023 - Springer
Post-transcriptional modifications are crucial for RNA function, with roles ranging from the
stabilization of functional RNA structures to modulation of RNA–protein interactions …