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 …

Adeno-associated virus as a delivery vector for gene therapy of human diseases

JH Wang, DJ Gessler, W Zhan, TL Gallagher… - Signal Transduction and …, 2024 - nature.com
Adeno-associated virus (AAV) has emerged as a pivotal delivery tool in clinical gene
therapy owing to its minimal pathogenicity and ability to establish long-term gene expression …

Engineered tRNAs suppress nonsense mutations in cells and in vivo

S Albers, EC Allen, N Bharti, M Davyt, D Joshi… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Nonsense mutations are the underlying cause of approximately 11% of all inherited genetic
diseases. Nonsense mutations convert a sense codon that is decoded by tRNA into a …

Deep generative design of RNA family sequences

S Sumi, M Hamada, H Saito - Nature Methods, 2024 - nature.com
RNA engineering has immense potential to drive innovation in biotechnology and medicine.
Despite its importance, a versatile platform for the automated design of functional RNA is still …

Noncoding translation mitigation

JS Kesner, Z Chen, P Shi, AO Aparicio, MR Murphy… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Translation is pervasive outside of canonical coding regions, occurring in long noncoding
RNAs, canonical untranslated regions and introns,,–, especially in ageing …

tRNA therapeutics for genetic diseases

J Coller, Z Ignatova - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2024 - nature.com
Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) have a crucial role in protein synthesis, and in recent years, their
therapeutic potential for the treatment of genetic diseases—primarily those associated with a …

Short tRNA anticodon stem and mutant eRF1 allow stop codon reassignment

A Kachale, Z Pavlíková, A Nenarokova, A Roithová… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Cognate tRNAs deliver specific amino acids to translating ribosomes according to the
standard genetic code, and three codons with no cognate tRNAs serve as stop codons …

tRNA renovatio: rebirth through fragmentation

B Kuhle, Q Chen, P Schimmel - Molecular Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Summary tRNA function is based on unique structures that enable mRNA decoding using
anticodon trinucleotides. These structures interact with specific aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases …

Near-cognate tRNAs increase the efficiency and precision of pseudouridine-mediated readthrough of premature termination codons

N Luo, Q Huang, L Dong, W Liu, J Song, H Sun… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Programmable RNA pseudouridylation has emerged as a new type of RNA base editor to
suppress premature termination codons (PTCs) that can lead to truncated and nonfunctional …

Engineered mischarged transfer RNAs for correcting pathogenic missense mutations

Y Hou, W Zhang, PT McGilvray, M Sobczyk, T Wang… - Molecular Therapy, 2024 - cell.com
Missense mutations account for approximately 50% of pathogenic mutations in human
genetic diseases, and most lack effective treatments. Gene therapies, gene editing, and …