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 …

RNA modifications in physiology and disease: towards clinical applications

S Delaunay, M Helm, M Frye - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
The ability of chemical modifications of single nucleotides to alter the electrostatic charge,
hydrophobic surface and base pairing of RNA molecules is exploited for the clinical use of …

The DNA methyltransferase family: a versatile toolkit for epigenetic regulation

F Lyko - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2018 - nature.com
The DNA methyltransferase (DNMT) family comprises a conserved set of DNA-modifying
enzymes that have a central role in epigenetic gene regulation. Recent studies have shown …

The role of m6A, m5C and Ψ RNA modifications in cancer: Novel therapeutic opportunities

P Nombela, B Miguel-López, S Blanco - Molecular cancer, 2021 - Springer
RNA modifications have recently emerged as critical posttranscriptional regulators of gene
expression programmes. Significant advances have been made in understanding the …

Epigenetic regulation in the tumor microenvironment: molecular mechanisms and therapeutic targets

J Yang, J Xu, W Wang, B Zhang, X Yu… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Over decades, researchers have focused on the epigenetic control of DNA-templated
processes. Histone modification, DNA methylation, chromatin remodeling, RNA modification …

Sperm tsRNAs contribute to intergenerational inheritance of an acquired metabolic disorder

Q Chen, M Yan, Z Cao, X Li, Y Zhang, J Shi, G Feng… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Increasing evidence indicates that metabolic disorders in offspring can result from the
father's diet, but the mechanism remains unclear. In a paternal mouse model given a high-fat …

5-methylcytosine promotes mRNA export—NSUN2 as the methyltransferase and ALYREF as an m5C reader

X Yang, Y Yang, BF Sun, YS Chen, JW Xu, WY Lai, A Li… - Cell research, 2017 - nature.com
methylcytosine (m 5 C) is a post-transcriptional RNA modification identified in both stable
and highly abundant tRNAs and rRNAs, and in mRNAs. However, its regulatory role in …

Exploring the expanding universe of small RNAs

J Shi, T Zhou, Q Chen - Nature cell biology, 2022 - nature.com
The world of small noncoding RNAs (sncRNAs) is ever-expanding, from small interfering
RNA, microRNA and Piwi-interacting RNA to the recently emerging non-canonical sncRNAs …

The RNA modification landscape in human disease

N Jonkhout, J Tran, MA Smith, N Schonrock, JS Mattick… - Rna, 2017 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
RNA modifications have been historically considered as fine-tuning chemo-structural
features of infrastructural RNAs, such as rRNAs, tRNAs, and snoRNAs. This view has …

Biological roles of RNA m5C modification and its implications in Cancer immunotherapy

H Song, J Zhang, B Liu, J Xu, B Cai, H Yang… - Biomarker …, 2022 - Springer
Epigenetics including DNA and RNA modifications have always been the hotspot field of life
sciences in the post-genome era. Since the first map** of N6-methyladenosine (m6A) and …