The tRNA identity landscape for aminoacylation and beyond

R Giegé, G Eriani - Nucleic Acids Research, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract tRNAs are key partners in ribosome-dependent protein synthesis. This process is
highly dependent on the fidelity of tRNA aminoacylation by aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases …

Engineering tRNAs for the Ribosomal Translation of Non-proteinogenic Monomers

M Sigal, S Matsumoto, A Beattie, T Katoh… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Ribosome-dependent protein biosynthesis is an essential cellular process mediated by
transfer RNAs (tRNAs). Generally, ribosomally synthesized proteins are limited to the 22 …

Phage tRNAs evade tRNA-targeting host defenses through anticodon loop mutations

DF van den Berg, BA van der Steen, AR Costa… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) in bacteriophage genomes are widespread across bacterial host
genera, but their exact function has remained unclear for more than 50 years. Several …

Diversity and distribution of viruses inhabiting the deepest ocean on Earth

H Jian, Y Yi, J Wang, Y Hao, M Zhang, S Wang… - The ISME …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
As the most abundant biological entities on the planet, viruses significantly influence the
overall functioning of marine ecosystems. The abundance, distribution, and biodiversity of …

Eukaryotic tRNA sequences present conserved and amino acid-specific structural signatures

E Westhof, B Thornlow, PP Chan… - Nucleic Acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Metazoan organisms have many tRNA genes responsible for decoding amino acids. The set
of all tRNA genes can be grouped in sets of common amino acids and isoacceptor tRNAs …

Bacterial translation machinery for deliberate mistranslation of the genetic code

O Vargas-Rodriguez, AH Badran… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Inaccurate expression of the genetic code, also known as mistranslation, is an emerging
paradigm in microbial studies. Growing evidence suggests that many microbial pathogens …

The binding mode of orphan glycyl-tRNA synthetase with tRNA supports the synthetase classification and reveals large domain movements

L Han, Z Luo, Y Ju, B Chen, T Zou, J Wang, J Xu… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
As a class of essential enzymes in protein translation, aminoacyl–transfer RNA (tRNA)
synthetases (aaRSs) are organized into two classes of 10 enzymes each, based on two …

TBDB: a database of structurally annotated T-box riboswitch: tRNA pairs

JA Marchand, MD Pierson Smela… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
T-box riboswitches constitute a large family of tRNA-binding leader sequences that play a
central role in gene regulation in many gram-positive bacteria. Accurate inference of the …

The role of tRNA identity elements in aminoacyl-tRNA editing

E Cruz, O Vargas-Rodriguez - Frontiers in microbiology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The rules of the genetic code are implemented by the unique features that define the amino
acid identity of each transfer RNA (tRNA). These features, known as “identity elements,” …

Human trans-editing enzyme displays tRNA acceptor-stem specificity and relaxed amino acid selectivity

O Vargas-Rodriguez, M Bakhtina, D McGowan… - Journal of Biological …, 2020 - ASBMB
Accurate translation of genetic information into proteins is vital for cell sustainability. ProXp-
ala prevents proteome-wide Pro-to-Ala mutations by hydrolyzing misacylated Ala-tRNA Pro …