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 …

Naturally occurring modified ribonucleosides

PJ McCown, A Ruszkowska, CN Kunkler… - Wiley …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
The chemical identity of RNA molecules beyond the four standard ribonucleosides has
fascinated scientists since pseudouridine was characterized as the “fifth” ribonucleotide in …

m5U-SVM: identification of RNA 5-methyluridine modification sites based on multi-view features of physicochemical features and distributed representation

C Ao, X Ye, T Sakurai, Q Zou, L Yu - BMC biology, 2023‏ - Springer
Abstract Background RNA 5-methyluridine (m5U) modifications are obtained by methylation
at the C5 position of uridine catalyzed by pyrimidine methylation transferase, which is …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Attention-based multi-label neural networks for integrated prediction and interpretation of twelve widely occurring RNA modifications

Z Song, D Huang, B Song, K Chen, Y Song… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Recent studies suggest that epi-transcriptome regulation via post-transcriptional RNA
modifications is vital for all RNA types. Precise identification of RNA modification sites is …

RNA nucleotide methylation: 2021 update

Y Motorin, M Helm - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Among RNA modifications, transfer of methylgroups from the typical cofactor S‐adenosyl‐l‐
methionine by methyltransferases (MTases) to RNA is by far the most common reaction …

Sequence-and structure-specific cytosine-5 mRNA methylation by NSUN6

T Selmi, S Hussain, S Dietmann, M Heiß… - Nucleic acids …, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
The highly abundant N6-methyladenosine (m6A) RNA modification affects most aspects of
mRNA function, yet the precise function of the rarer 5-methylcytidine (m5C) remains largely …

Human transfer RNA modopathies: diseases caused by aberrations in transfer RNA modifications

T Chujo, K Tomizawa - The FEBS journal, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
tRNA molecules are post‐transcriptionally modified by tRNA modification enzymes.
Although composed of different chemistries, more than 40 types of human tRNA …

Activity-based RNA-modifying enzyme probing reveals DUS3L-mediated dihydrouridylation

W Dai, A Li, NJ Yu, T Nguyen, RW Leach… - Nature chemical …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Epitranscriptomic RNA modifications can regulate RNA activity; however, there remains a
major gap in our understanding of the RNA chemistry present in biological systems. Here we …

Why U matters: detection and functions of pseudouridine modifications in mRNAs

R Rodell, N Robalin, NM Martinez - Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 2024‏ - cell.com
The uridine modifications pseudouridine (Ψ), dihydrouridine, and 5-methyluridine are
present in eukaryotic mRNAs. Many uridine-modifying enzymes are associated with human …