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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2007

The dawn of dominance by the mature domain in tRNA splicing.

Giuseppe D Tocchini-Valentini, Paolo Fruscoloni, Glauco P Tocchini-Valentini

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 31% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The life and times of a tRNA.RNA (New York, N.Y.) · 2023
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  7. Cis- and trans-splicing of mRNAs mediated by tRNA sequences in eukaryotic cells.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2008
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Giuseppe D Tocchini-ValentiniIstituto di Biologia Cellulare, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Campus A, Buzzati-Traverso, Via Ramarini 32, Monterotondo Scalo, 00016 Rome, Italy.
Paolo Fruscoloni
Glauco P Tocchini-Valentini
Institute of Cell Biology and Neurobiology · ITUniversity of Chicago · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The relationship between enzyme architecture and substrate specificity among archaeal pre-tRNA splicing endonucleases has been investigated more deeply, by using biochemical assays and model building. The enzyme from Archeoglobus fulgidus (AF) is particularly interesting: it cleaves the bulge-helix-bulge target without requiring the mature tRNA domain, but, when the target is a bulge-helix-loop, the mature domain is required. A model of AF based on its electrostatic potential shows three polar patches interacting with the pre-tRNA substrate. A simple deletion mutant of the AF endonuclease lacking two of the three polar patches no longer cleaves the bulge-helix-loop substrate with or without the mature domain. This single deletion shows a possible path for the evolution of eukaryal splicing endonucleases from the archaeal enzyme.

Indexed as

Amino Acid SequenceArchaeal ProteinsArchaeoglobus fulgidusBase SequenceBinding SitesHumansModels, MolecularMolecular Sequence DataNucleic Acid ConformationProtein BindingProtein Structure, TertiaryRNA SplicingRNA, TransferStatic ElectricityStructural Homology, ProteinSubstrate SpecificityArchaeal ProteinsRNA, Transfer

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PMID17636125
PMCPMC1941465
OpenAlexW2078996971

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