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 …

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 …

Quantitative analysis of tRNA abundance and modifications by nanopore RNA sequencing

MC Lucas, LP Pryszcz, R Medina, I Milenkovic… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) play a central role in protein translation. Studying them has been
difficult in part because a simple method to simultaneously quantify their abundance and …

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 …

Non-genetic mechanisms of therapeutic resistance in cancer

JC Marine, SJ Dawson, MA Dawson - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Therapeutic resistance continues to be an indominable foe in our ambition for curative
cancer treatment. Recent insights into the molecular determinants of acquired treatment …

Role of RNA modifications in cancer

I Barbieri, T Kouzarides - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Specific chemical modifications of biological molecules are an efficient way of regulating
molecular function, and a plethora of downstream signalling pathways are influenced by the …

METTL1-mediated m7G modification of Arg-TCT tRNA drives oncogenic transformation

EA Orellana, Q Liu, E Yankova, M Pirouz… - Molecular cell, 2021 - cell.com
The emerging" epitranscriptomics" field is providing insights into the biological and
pathological roles of different RNA modifications. The RNA methyltransferase METTL1 …

The plasticity of mRNA translation during cancer progression and therapy resistance

L Fabbri, A Chakraborty, C Robert, S Vagner - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Translational control of mRNAs during gene expression allows cells to promptly and
dynamically adapt to a variety of stimuli, including in neoplasia in response to aberrant …

N1-methyladenosine methylation in tRNA drives liver tumourigenesis by regulating cholesterol metabolism

Y Wang, J Wang, X Li, X Xiong, J Wang, Z Zhou… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) accounts for the majority of primary liver cancers and is
characterized by high recurrence and heterogeneity, yet its mechanism is not well …

tRNA dysregulation and disease

EA Orellana, E Siegal, RI Gregory - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract tRNAs are key adaptor molecules that decipher the genetic code during translation
of mRNAs in protein synthesis. In contrast to the traditional view of tRNAs as ubiquitously …