RNA modification: mechanisms and therapeutic targets

L Qiu, Q Jing, Y Li, J Han - Molecular Biomedicine, 2023 - Springer
RNA modifications are dynamic and reversible chemical modifications on substrate RNA
that are regulated by specific modifying enzymes. They play important roles in the regulation …

Pseudouridine: still mysterious, but never a fake (uridine)!

F Spenkuch, Y Motorin, M Helm - RNA biology, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Pseudouridine (Ψ) is the most abundant of> 150 nucleoside modifications in RNA. Although
Ψ was discovered as the first modified nucleoside more than half a century ago, neither the …

[HTML][HTML] Uremic solutes and risk of end-stage renal disease in type 2 diabetes: metabolomic study

MA Niewczas, TL Sirich, AV Mathew, J Skupien… - Kidney international, 2014 - Elsevier
Here we studied plasma metabolomic profiles as determinants of progression to end-stage
renal disease (ESRD) in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D). This nested case–control study …

A selective and atom-economic rearrangement of uridine by cascade biocatalysis for production of pseudouridine

M Pfeiffer, A Ribar, B Nidetzky - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
As a crucial factor of their therapeutic efficacy, the currently marketed mRNA vaccines
feature uniform substitution of uridine (U) by the corresponding C-nucleoside, pseudouridine …

[HTML][HTML] Biocatalytic cascade transformations for the synthesis of C-nucleosides and N-nucleoside analogs

M Pfeiffer, B Nidetzky - Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•Newly discovered enzymes possessing C-nucleoside synthase activity for
biocatalysis.•Multistep cascade reactions involving up to nine enzymes.•One-pot synthesis …

C-Ribosylating Enzymes in the (Bio)Synthesis of C-Nucleosides and C-Glycosylated Natural Products

M Pfeiffer, B Nidetzky - ACS Catalysis, 2023 - ACS Publications
Small-molecule glycosides that exhibit a β-d-ribosyl residue linked to an aglycone via a
noncanonical C-glycosidic linkage are of great biological importance. They occur naturally …

Characterization of the oxazinomycin biosynthetic pathway revealing the key role of a nonheme iron-dependent mono-oxygenase

D Ren, YH Lee, SA Wang, H Liu - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Oxazinomycin is a C-nucleoside natural product with antibacterial and antitumor activities. In
addition to the characteristic C-glycosidic linkage shared with other C-nucleosides …

Reverse C-glycosidase reaction provides C-nucleotide building blocks of xenobiotic nucleic acids

M Pfeiffer, B Nidetzky - Nature Communications, 2020 - nature.com
C-Analogues of the canonical N-nucleosides have considerable importance in medicinal
chemistry and are promising building blocks of xenobiotic nucleic acids (XNA) in synthetic …

A kinase and a glycosylase catabolize pseudouridine in the peroxisome to prevent toxic pseudouridine monophosphate accumulation

M Chen, CP Witte - The Plant Cell, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Pseudouridine (Ψ) is a frequent nucleoside modification that occurs in both noncoding
RNAs and mRNAs. In pseudouridine, C5 of uracil is attached to the Rib via an unusual C …

Discovery of the Showdomycin Gene Cluster from Streptomyces showdoensis ATCC 15227 Yields Insight into the Biosynthetic Logic of C-Nucleoside Antibiotics

K Palmu, P Rosenqvist, K Thapa, Y Ilina… - ACS chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Nucleoside antibiotics are a large class of pharmaceutically relevant chemical entities,
which exhibit a broad spectrum of biological activities. Most nucleosides belong to the …