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ArticleBiochemical and biophysical research communications2008

Ribosomal frameshifting in response to hypomodified tRNAs in Xenopus oocytes.

Bradley A Carlson, Byeong Jae Lee, Dolph L Hatfield

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Article in Biochemical and biophysical research communications, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. tRNA modifications in viral replication.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Bradley A CarlsonMolecular Biology of Selenium Section, Laboratory of Cancer Prevention, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Building 37, Room 6032, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. carlsonb@mail.nih.gov
Byeong Jae Lee
Dolph L Hatfield
National Cancer Institute · USNational Institutes of Health · USSeoul National University · KR

Funding

ROLE OF SELENIUM IN PREVENTING CANCER, HEART DISEASE AND DELAYING AGING PROCESSZ01BC005317 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI HATFIELD, DOLPH · 1996 to 2008
$1.5M
Biosynthesis of Selenocysteine and Its Incorporation into ProteinZ01BC010767 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI HATFIELD, DOLPH · 2007 to 2008
$691k
Intramural NIH HHS Z01 BC010767Intramural NIH HHS Z99 CA999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We used Xenopus oocytes as an intracellular system to study ribosomal frameshifting. Microinjection of oocytes with a construct encoding the naturally occurring UUU or AAC codon at the frameshift site demonstrated that the level of frameshifting was similar or lower than found normally in retroviral frameshifting in mammalian cells, suggesting that oocytes are a reliable system to study this event. Phenylalanine (Phe) or asparagine (Asn) tRNAs with and without the highly modified wyebutoxine (Y) or queuosine (Q) base, respectively, were microinjected to assess their ability to promote frameshifting. tRNAPhe+Y inhibited the level of frameshifting, while tRNAPhe-Y promoted frameshifting providing evidence that the hypomodified form does not act only to enhance frameshifting, but is an essential requirement. Both tRNAAsn+Q and tRNAAsn-Q were used indiscriminately in frameshifting, whether the frameshift site contained the wild-type AAC, or the mutant AAU codon, suggesting that Q base modification status does not influence this process.

Indexed as

Frameshifting, RibosomalAnimalsBase SequenceFemaleGuanineMicroinjectionsMolecular Sequence DataNucleoside QOocytesRabbitsRNA, Transfer, AsnRNA, Transfer, PheXenopusGuanineNucleoside QRNA, Transfer, AsnRNA, Transfer, Phewye

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PMID18675785
PMCPMC2674873
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