Posttranscriptional RNA modifications: playing metabolic games in a cell's chemical Legoland

M Helm, JD Alfonzo - Chemistry & biology, 2014 - cell.com
Nature combines existing biochemical building blocks, at times with subtlety of purpose.
RNA modifications are a prime example of this, where standard RNA nucleosides are …

Mechanism and Substrate Specificity of tRNA–Guanine Transglycosylases (TGTs): tRNA‐Modifying Enzymes from the Three Different Kingdoms of Life Share a …

B Stengl, K Reuter, G Klebe - ChemBioChem, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Transfer RNA–guanine transglycosylases (TGTs) are evolutionarily ancient enzymes,
present in all kingdoms of life, catalyzing guanine exchange within their cognate tRNAs by …

Structural and functional insights into human tRNA guanine transglycosylase

K Sievers, L Welp, H Urlaub, R Ficner - RNA biology, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The eukaryotic tRNA guanine transglycosylase (TGT) is an RNA modifying enzyme
incorporating queuine, a hypermodified guanine derivative, into the tRNAsAsp, Asn, His, Tyr …

Structural and functional insights into tRNA recognition by human tRNA guanine transglycosylase

K Sievers, P Neumann, L Sušac, S Da Vela… - Structure, 2024 - cell.com
Eukaryotic tRNA guanine transglycosylase (TGT) is an RNA-modifying enzyme which
catalyzes the base exchange of the genetically encoded guanine 34 of tRNAs Asp, Asn, His …

The human tRNA-guanine transglycosylase displays promiscuous nucleobase preference but strict tRNA specificity

C Fergus, M Al-Qasem, M Cotter… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Base-modification can occur throughout a transfer RNA molecule; however, elaboration is
particularly prevalent at position 34 of the anticodon loop (the wobble position), where it …

Crystal structures of tRNA-guanine transglycosylase (TGT) in complex with novel and potent inhibitors unravel pronounced induced-fit adaptations and suggest dimer …

B Stengl, EA Meyer, A Heine, R Brenk… - Journal of molecular …, 2007 - Elsevier
The bacterial tRNA-guanine transglycosylase (TGT) is a tRNA modifying enzyme catalyzing
the exchange of guanine 34 by the modified base preQ1. The enzyme is involved in the …

Site-specific modification of Shigella flexneri virF mRNA by tRNA-guanine transglycosylase in vitro

JK Hurt, S Olgen, GA Garcia - Nucleic acids research, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Shigella flexneri is an enteropathogen responsible for severe dysentery in humans. VirF is a
key transcriptional regulator that activates the expression of the downstream virulence …

Crystal structure of the human tRNA guanine transglycosylase catalytic subunit QTRT1

S Johannsson, P Neumann, R Ficner - Biomolecules, 2018 - mdpi.com
RNA modifications have been implicated in diverse and important roles in all kingdoms of
life with over 100 of them present on tRNAs. A prominent modification at the wobble base of …

An integrative approach combining noncovalent mass spectrometry, enzyme kinetics and X-ray crystallography to decipher Tgt protein-protein and protein-RNA …

T Ritschel, C Atmanene, K Reuter… - Journal of molecular …, 2009 - Elsevier
The tRNA-modifying enzyme tRNA-guanine transglycosylase (Tgt) is a putative target for
new selective antibiotics against Shigella bacteria. The formation of a Tgt homodimer was …

Queuine Salvaging in the Human Parasite Entamoeba histolytica

L Sarid, J Sun, J Chittrakanwong, M Trebicz-Geffen… - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Queuosine (Q) is a naturally occurring modified nucleoside that occurs in the first position of
transfer RNA anticodons such as Asp, Asn, His, and Tyr. As eukaryotes lack pathways to …