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 …

Roles and regulation of tRNA-derived small RNAs in animals

S Muthukumar, CT Li, RJ Liu, C Bellodi - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
A growing class of small RNAs, known as tRNA-derived RNAs (tdRs), tRNA-derived small
RNAs or tRNA-derived fragments, have long been considered mere intermediates of tRNA …

Complete chemical structures of human mitochondrial tRNAs

T Suzuki, Y Yashiro, I Kikuchi, Y Ishigami… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Mitochondria generate most cellular energy via oxidative phosphorylation. Twenty-two
species of mitochondrial (mt-) tRNAs encoded in mtDNA translate essential subunits of the …

Biosynthesis and function of posttranscriptional modifications of transfer RNAs

B El Yacoubi, M Bailly… - Annual review of …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Posttranscriptional modifications of transfer RNAs (tRNAs) are critical for all core aspects of
tRNA function, such as folding, stability, and decoding. Most tRNA modifications were …

Human mitochondrial tRNAs: biogenesis, function, structural aspects, and diseases

T Suzuki, A Nagao, T Suzuki - Annual review of genetics, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Mitochondria are eukaryotic organelles that generate most of the energy in the cell by
oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS). Each mitochondrion contains multiple copies of a …

A complete landscape of post-transcriptional modifications in mammalian mitochondrial tRNAs

T Suzuki, T Suzuki - Nucleic acids research, 2014 - academic.oup.com
In mammalian mitochondria, 22 species of tRNAs encoded in mitochondrial DNA play
crucial roles in the translation of 13 essential subunits of the respiratory chain complexes …

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 …

Matching tRNA modifications in humans to their known and predicted enzymes

V de Crécy-Lagard, P Boccaletto… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract tRNA are post-transcriptionally modified by chemical modifications that affect all
aspects of tRNA biology. An increasing number of mutations underlying human genetic …

[HTML][HTML] Glycosylated queuosines in tRNAs optimize translational rate and post-embryonic growth

X Zhao, D Ma, K Ishiguro, H Saito, S Akichika… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Transfer RNA (tRNA) modifications are critical for protein synthesis. Queuosine (Q), a 7-
deaza-guanosine derivative, is present in tRNA anticodons. In vertebrate tRNAs for Tyr and …

The queuine micronutrient: charting a course from microbe to man

C Fergus, D Barnes, MA Alqasem, VP Kelly - Nutrients, 2015 - mdpi.com
Micronutrients from the diet and gut microbiota are essential to human health and wellbeing.
Arguably, among the most intriguing and enigmatic of these micronutrients is queuine, an …