Roles and mechanisms of alternative splicing in cancer—implications for care

SC Bonnal, I López-Oreja, J Valcárcel - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2020 - nature.com
Removal of introns from messenger RNA precursors (pre-mRNA splicing) is an essential
step for the expression of most eukaryotic genes. Alternative splicing enables the regulated …

Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases as therapeutic targets

NH Kwon, PL Fox, S Kim - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2019 - nature.com
Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (ARSs) are essential enzymes for protein synthesis with
evolutionarily conserved enzymatic mechanisms. Despite their similarity across organisms …

Essential nontranslational functions of tRNA synthetases

M Guo, P Schimmel - Nature chemical biology, 2013 - nature.com
Nontranslational functions of vertebrate aminoacyl tRNA synthetases (aaRSs), which
catalyze the production of aminoacyl-tRNAs for protein synthesis, have recently been …

Sulfhydration mediates neuroprotective actions of parkin

MS Vandiver, BD Paul, R Xu… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Increases in S-nitrosylation and inactivation of the neuroprotective ubiquitin E3 ligase,
parkin, in the brains of patients with Parkinson's disease are thought to be pathogenic and …

Functional and pathologic association of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases with cancer

Y Sung, I Yoon, JM Han, S Kim - Experimental & molecular medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Although key tumorigenic and tumor-suppressive factors have been unveiled over the last
several decades, cancer remains the most life-threatening disease. Multiomic analyses of …

Hexokinase 2 confers radio-resistance in hepatocellular carcinoma by promoting autophagy-dependent degradation of AIMP2

Y Zheng, Y Zhan, Y Zhang, Y Zhang, Y Liu, Y Xie… - Cell Death & …, 2023 - nature.com
With technological advancements, radiotherapy (RT) has become an effective non-surgical
treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), comprehensively improving the local control …

Systematic profiling of alternative splicing signature reveals prognostic predictor for ovarian cancer

J Zhu, Z Chen, L Yong - Gynecologic oncology, 2018 - Elsevier
Objective The majority of genes are alternatively spliced and growing evidence suggests
that alternative splicing is modified in cancer and is associated with cancer progression …

Roles of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase-interacting multi-functional proteins in physiology and cancer

Z Zhou, B Sun, S Huang, D Yu, X Zhang - Cell Death & Disease, 2020 - nature.com
Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (ARSs) are an important class of enzymes with an
evolutionarily conserved mechanism for protein synthesis. In higher eukaryotic systems …

Recent development of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase inhibitors for human diseases: a future perspective

SH Kim, S Bae, M Song - Biomolecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (ARSs) are essential enzymes that ligate amino acids to
tRNAs and translate the genetic code during protein synthesis. Their function in pathogen …

Targeting the interaction of AIMP2-DX2 with HSP70 suppresses cancer development

S Lim, HY Cho, DG Kim, Y Roh, SY Son… - Nature chemical …, 2020 - nature.com
A tumorigenic factor, AIMP2 lacking exon 2 (AIMP2-DX2), is often upregulated in many
cancers. However, how its cellular level is determined is not understood. Here, we report …