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 …

Eukaryotic 5-methylcytosine (m5C) RNA Methyltransferases: Mechanisms, Cellular Functions, and Links to Disease

KE Bohnsack, C Höbartner, MT Bohnsack - Genes, 2019 - mdpi.com
5-methylcytosine (m5C) is an abundant RNA modification that's presence is reported in a
wide variety of RNA species, including cytoplasmic and mitochondrial ribosomal RNAs …

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 …

NSUN3 and ABH1 modify the wobble position of mt‐tRNAMet to expand codon recognition in mitochondrial translation

S Haag, KE Sloan, N Ranjan, AS Warda… - The EMBO …, 2016 - embopress.org
Mitochondrial gene expression uses a non‐universal genetic code in mammals. Besides
reading the conventional AUG codon, mitochondrial (mt‐) tRNAM et mediates incorporation …

An integrated, structure-and energy-based view of the genetic code

H Grosjean, E Westhof - Nucleic acids research, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The principles of mRNA decoding are conserved among all extant life forms. We present an
integrative view of all the interaction networks between mRNA, tRNA and rRNA: the intrinsic …

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 …

ALKBH1 is an RNA dioxygenase responsible for cytoplasmic and mitochondrial tRNA modifications

L Kawarada, T Suzuki, T Ohira, S Hirata… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Abstract ALKBH1 is a 2-oxoglutarate-and Fe2+-dependent dioxygenase responsible for
multiple cellular functions. Here, we show that ALKBH1 is involved in biogenesis of 5 …

Visualizing transient Watson–Crick-like mispairs in DNA and RNA duplexes

IJ Kimsey, K Petzold, B Sathyamoorthy, ZW Stein… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Rare tautomeric and anionic nucleobases are believed to have fundamental biological
roles, but their prevalence and functional importance has remained elusive because they …

Celebrating wobble decoding: Half a century and still much is new

PF Agris, ER Eruysal, A Narendran, VYP Väre… - RNA biology, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A simple post-transcriptional modification of tRNA, deamination of adenosine to
inosine at the first, or wobble, position of the anticodon, inspired Francis Crick's Wobble …

Molecular basis of translation termination at noncanonical stop codons in human mitochondria

M Saurer, M Leibundgut, HP Nadimpalli, A Scaiola… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The genetic code that specifies the identity of amino acids incorporated into proteins during
protein synthesis is almost universally conserved. Mitochondrial genomes feature deviations …