Translation and mRNA stability control

Q Wu, AA Bazzini - Annual review of biochemistry, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Messenger RNA (mRNA) stability and translational efficiency are two crucial aspects of the
post-transcriptional process that profoundly impact protein production in a cell. While it is …

tRNA therapeutics for genetic diseases

J Coller, Z Ignatova - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2024 - nature.com
Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) have a crucial role in protein synthesis, and in recent years, their
therapeutic potential for the treatment of genetic diseases—primarily those associated with a …

tRNAscan-SE 2.0: improved detection and functional classification of transfer RNA genes

PP Chan, BY Lin, AJ Mak, TM Lowe - Nucleic acids research, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract tRNAscan-SE has been widely used for transfer RNA (tRNA) gene prediction for
over twenty years, developed just as the first genomes were decoded. With the massive …

Selective gene expression maintains human tRNA anticodon pools during differentiation

L Gao, A Behrens, G Rodschinka, S Forcelloni… - Nature Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Transfer RNAs are essential for translating genetic information into proteins. The human
genome contains hundreds of predicted tRNA genes, many in multiple copies. How their …

[HTML][HTML] Design, construction, and functional characterization of a tRNA neochromosome in yeast

D Schindler, RSK Walker, S Jiang, AN Brooks, Y Wang… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Here, we report the design, construction, and characterization of a tRNA neochromosome, a
designer chromosome that functions as an additional, de novo counterpart to the native …

Mechanisms and delivery of tRNA therapeutics

C Ward, A Beharry, R Tennakoon, P Rozik… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Transfer ribonucleic acid (tRNA) therapeutics will provide personalized and mutation
specific medicines to treat human genetic diseases for which no cures currently exist. The …

Epigenetic regulation of human non-coding RNA gene transcription

M Morselli, G Dieci - Biochemical Society Transactions, 2022 - portlandpress.com
Recent investigations on the non-protein-coding transcriptome of human cells have
revealed previously hidden layers of gene regulation relying on regulatory non-protein …

Eukaryotic tRNA sequences present conserved and amino acid-specific structural signatures

E Westhof, B Thornlow, PP Chan… - Nucleic Acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Metazoan organisms have many tRNA genes responsible for decoding amino acids. The set
of all tRNA genes can be grouped in sets of common amino acids and isoacceptor tRNAs …

Perseverance of protein homeostasis despite mistranslation of glycine codons with alanine

F Hasan, JT Lant… - … Transactions of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
By linking amino acids to their codon assignments, transfer RNAs (tRNAs) are essential for
protein synthesis and translation fidelity. Some human tRNA variants cause amino acid mis …

Endogenous tRNA‐derived small RNA (tRF3‐Thr‐AGT) inhibits ZBP1/NLRP3 pathway‐mediated cell pyroptosis to attenuate acute pancreatitis (AP)

B Sun, Z Chen, Q Chi, Y Zhang… - Journal of Cellular and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Endogenous transfer RNA‐derived small RNAs (tsRNAs) are newly identified RNAs that are
closely associated with the pathogenesis of multiple diseases, but the involvement of …