Regulation of mRNA translation in neurons—a matter of life and death

M Kapur, CE Monaghan, SL Ackerman - Neuron, 2017 - cell.com
Dynamic regulation of mRNA translation initiation and elongation is essential for the survival
and function of neural cells. Global reductions in translation initiation resulting from …

mRNA translation gone awry: translation fidelity and neurological disease

M Kapur, SL Ackerman - Trends in Genetics, 2018 - cell.com
Errors during mRNA translation can lead to a reduction in the levels of functional proteins
and an increase in deleterious molecules. Advances in next-generation sequencing have …

Formation and persistence of polyglutamine aggregates in mistranslating cells

JT Lant, R Kiri, ML Duennwald… - Nucleic Acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
In neurodegenerative diseases, including pathologies with well-known causative alleles,
genetic factors that modify severity or age of onset are not entirely understood. We recently …

Translation fidelity coevolves with longevity

Z Ke, P Mallik, AB Johnson, F Luna, E Nevo… - Aging cell, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Whether errors in protein synthesis play a role in aging has been a subject of intense
debate. It has been suggested that rare mistakes in protein synthesis in young organisms …

Regulation of translation by one-carbon metabolism in bacteria and eukaryotic organelles

S Shetty, U Varshney - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2021 - ASBMB
Protein synthesis is an energetically costly cellular activity. It is therefore important that the
process of mRNA translation remains in excellent synchrony with cellular metabolism and its …

Efficacy of epetraborole against Mycobacterium abscessus is increased with norvaline

JR Sullivan, A Lupien, E Kalthoff, C Hamela… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Mycobacterium abscessus is the most common rapidly growing non-tuberculous
mycobacteria to cause pulmonary disease in patients with impaired lung function such as …

The essential mycobacterial amidotransferase GatCAB is a modulator of specific translational fidelity

HW Su, JH Zhu, H Li, RJ Cai, C Ealand, X Wang… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Although regulation of translation fidelity is an essential process 1–7, diverse organisms and
organelles have differing requirements of translational accuracy 8–15, and errors in gene …

Structural basis of tRNAPro acceptor stem recognition by a bacterial trans-editing domain

X Ma, M Bakhtina, I Shulgina, WA Cantara… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
High fidelity tRNA aminoacylation by aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases is essential for cell
viability. ProXp-ala is a trans-editing protein that is present in all three domains of life and is …

Resilience and proteome response of Escherichia coli to high levels of isoleucine mistranslation

M Pranjic, P Spät, MS Curkovic, B Macek… - International journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Accurate pairing of amino acids and tRNAs is a prerequisite for faithful translation of genetic
information during protein biosynthesis. Here we present the effects of proteome-wide …

Errors in translational decoding: tRNA wobbling or misincorporation?

X Ou, J Cao, A Cheng, MP Peppelenbosch… - PLoS genetics, 2019 - journals.plos.org
As the central dogma of molecular biology, genetic information flows from DNA through
transcription into RNA followed by translation of the message into protein by transfer RNAs …