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 …

Modifications and functional genomics of human transfer RNA

T Pan - Cell research, 2018 - nature.com
Transfer RNA (tRNA) is present at tens of millions of transcripts in a human cell and is the
most abundant RNA in moles among all cellular RNAs. tRNA is also the most extensively …

Gene expression regulation mediated through reversible m6A RNA methylation

Y Fu, D Dominissini, G Rechavi, C He - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2014 - nature.com
Cellular RNAs carry diverse chemical modifications that used to be regarded as static and
having minor roles in'fine-tuning'structural and functional properties of RNAs. In this Review …

ALKBH5 is a mammalian RNA demethylase that impacts RNA metabolism and mouse fertility

G Zheng, JA Dahl, Y Niu, P Fedorcsak, CM Huang… - Molecular cell, 2013 - cell.com
Summary N 6-methyladenosine (m 6 A) is the most prevalent internal modification of
messenger RNA (mRNA) in higher eukaryotes. Here we report ALKBH5 as another …

Meclofenamic acid selectively inhibits FTO demethylation of m6A over ALKBH5

Y Huang, J Yan, Q Li, J Li, S Gong, H Zhou… - Nucleic acids …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Two human demethylases, the fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) enzyme and ALKBH5,
oxidatively demethylate abundant N 6-methyladenosine (m6A) residues in mRNA …

N6-Methyladenosine in nuclear RNA is a major substrate of the obesity-associated FTO

G Jia, YE Fu, XU Zhao, Q Dai, G Zheng, Y Yang… - Nature chemical …, 2011 - nature.com
We report here that fat mass and obesity-associated protein (FTO) has efficient oxidative
demethylation activity targeting the abundant N 6-methyladenosine (m6A) residues in RNA …

2-Oxoglutarate-dependent oxygenases

MS Islam, TM Leissing, R Chowdhury… - Annual review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
2-Oxoglutarate (2OG)-dependent oxygenases (2OGXs) catalyze a remarkably diverse range
of oxidative reactions. In animals, these comprise hydroxylations and N-demethylations …

The AlkB family of Fe (II)/α-ketoglutarate-dependent dioxygenases: repairing nucleic acid alkylation damage and beyond

BI Fedeles, V Singh, JC Delaney, D Li… - Journal of Biological …, 2015 - ASBMB
The AlkB family of Fe (II)-and α-ketoglutarate-dependent dioxygenases is a class of
ubiquitous direct reversal DNA repair enzymes that remove alkyl adducts from nucleobases …

tRNA modification dynamics from individual organisms to metaepitranscriptomics of microbiomes

W Zhang, M Foo, AM Eren, T Pan - Molecular Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Summary tRNA is the most extensively modified RNA in cells. On average, a bacterial tRNA
contains 8 modifications per molecule and a eukaryotic tRNA contains 13 modifications per …

Mitochondrial translation requires folate-dependent tRNA methylation

RJ Morscher, GS Ducker, SHJ Li, JA Mayer, Z Gitai… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Folates enable the activation and transfer of one-carbon units for the biosynthesis of purines,
thymidine and methionine,,. Antifolates are important immunosuppressive and anticancer …