Transfer RNAs as dynamic and critical regulators of cancer progression

AM Pinzaru, SF Tavazoie - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) have been historically viewed as non-dynamic adaptors that decode
the genetic code into proteins. Recent work has uncovered dynamic regulatory roles for …

The roles of arginases and arginine in immunity

S Canè, R Geiger, V Bronte - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2024 - nature.com
Arginase activity and arginine metabolism in immune cells have important consequences for
health and disease. Their dysregulation is commonly observed in cancer, autoimmune …

Arginine deprivation enriches lung cancer proteomes with cysteine by inducing arginine-to-cysteine substitutants

C Yang, A Pataskar, X Feng, JM Navarro, I Paniagua… - Molecular Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Many types of human cancers suppress the expression of argininosuccinate synthase 1
(ASS1), a rate-limiting enzyme for arginine production. Although dependency on exogenous …

Threonine fuels glioblastoma through YRDC-mediated codon-biased translational reprogramming

X Wu, H Yuan, Q Wu, Y Gao, T Duan, K Yang, T Huang… - Nature Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
Cancers commonly reprogram translation and metabolism, but little is known about how
these two features coordinate in cancer stem cells. Here we show that glioblastoma stem …

Translational control by VARS in melanoma

Q Wu, SF Tavazoie - Nature Cell Biology, 2024 - nature.com
Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases can promote or suppress cancer progression by regulating
codon-dependent translation. A study now shows that valine aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase …

Dengue virus preferentially uses human and mosquito non-optimal codons

LA Castellano, RJ McNamara, HM Pallarés… - Molecular Systems …, 2024 - embopress.org
Codon optimality refers to the effect that codon composition has on messenger RNA (mRNA)
stability and translation level and implies that synonymous codons are not silent from a …

DNA-binding proteins from MBD through ZF to BEN: recognition of cytosine methylation status by one arginine with two conformations

X Zhang, RM Blumenthal, X Cheng - Nucleic acids research, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Maintenance methylation, of palindromic CpG dinucleotides at DNA replication forks, is
crucial for the faithful mitotic inheritance of genomic 5-methylcytosine (5mC) methylation …

Cysteine substitutants emerge in lung cancer proteomes during arginine restriction

DJ Hsu, SF Tavazoie - Molecular Cell, 2024 - Elsevier
Cysteine substitutants emerge in lung cancer proteomes during arginine restriction -
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Development of a synthetic biosensor for chemical exchange MRI utilizing in silico optimized peptides

AJ Fillion, AR Bricco, HD Lee… - NMR in …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) MRI has been identified as a novel
alternative to classical diagnostic imaging. Over the last several decades, many studies …

The importance of protein domain mutations in cancer therapy

CK Kumar, A Emerson - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Cancer is a complex disease that is caused by multiple genetic factors. Researchers have
been studying protein domain mutations to understand how they affect the progression and …