RNA modifications in physiology and disease: towards clinical applications

S Delaunay, M Helm, M Frye - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
The ability of chemical modifications of single nucleotides to alter the electrostatic charge,
hydrophobic surface and base pairing of RNA molecules is exploited for the clinical use of …

Epigenetic regulation in the tumor microenvironment: molecular mechanisms and therapeutic targets

J Yang, J Xu, W Wang, B Zhang, X Yu… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Over decades, researchers have focused on the epigenetic control of DNA-templated
processes. Histone modification, DNA methylation, chromatin remodeling, RNA modification …

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 …

Mitochondrial RNA modifications shape metabolic plasticity in metastasis

S Delaunay, G Pascual, B Feng, K Klann, M Behm… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Aggressive and metastatic cancers show enhanced metabolic plasticity, but the precise
underlying mechanisms of this remain unclear. Here we show how two NOP2/Sun RNA …

The role of m6A, m5C and Ψ RNA modifications in cancer: Novel therapeutic opportunities

P Nombela, B Miguel-López, S Blanco - Molecular cancer, 2021 - Springer
RNA modifications have recently emerged as critical posttranscriptional regulators of gene
expression programmes. Significant advances have been made in understanding the …

Mechanisms and regulation of protein synthesis in mitochondria

E Kummer, N Ban - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2021 - nature.com
Mitochondria are cellular organelles responsible for generation of chemical energy in the
process called oxidative phosphorylation. They originate from a bacterial ancestor and …

RNA modifications modulate gene expression during development

M Frye, BT Harada, M Behm, C He - Science, 2018 - science.org
RNA modifications have recently emerged as critical posttranscriptional regulators of gene
expression programs. They affect diverse eukaryotic biological processes, and the correct …

MODOMICS: a database of RNA modification pathways. 2017 update

P Boccaletto, MA Machnicka, E Purta… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
MODOMICS is a database of RNA modifications that provides comprehensive information
concerning the chemical structures of modified ribonucleosides, their biosynthetic pathways …

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 …

RNA modifications in cancer

Q Tang, L Li, Y Wang, P Wu, X Hou, J Ouyang… - British journal of …, 2023 - nature.com
Currently, more than 170 modifications have been identified on RNA. Among these RNA
modifications, various methylations account for two-thirds of total cases and exist on almost …