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ArticleNucleic acids research2014

Diverse cell stresses induce unique patterns of tRNA up- and down-regulation: tRNA-seq for quantifying changes in tRNA copy number.

Yan Ling Joy Pang, Ryan Abo, Stuart S Levine, Peter C Dedon

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 83 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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83 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 138 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Yan Ling Joy PangDepartment of Biological Engineering and Infectious Diseases Interdisciplinary Research Group, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research & Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Ryan AboDepartment of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Stuart S LevineDepartment of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Peter C DedonDepartment of Biological Engineering and Infectious Diseases Interdisciplinary Research Group, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research & Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA pcdedon@mit.edu.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · USSingapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology · SG

Funding

TOXICOLOGY CORE UNITP30ES002109 · NIEHS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI LEVINE, STUART S · 1985 to 2020
$25.6M
RNA Modifications as Biomarkers of Environmental Stress and InflammationR01ES017010 · NIEHS · STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY · PI BEGLEY, THOMAS J · 2009 to 2013
$2.1M
NIEHS NIH HHS ES002109NIEHS NIH HHS ES017010NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES002109
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Emerging evidence points to roles for tRNA modifications and tRNA abundance in cellular stress responses. While isolated instances of stress-induced tRNA degradation have been reported, we sought to assess the effects of stress on tRNA levels at a systems level. To this end, we developed a next-generation sequencing method that exploits the paucity of ribonucleoside modifications at the 3'-end of tRNAs to quantify changes in all cellular tRNA molecules. Application of this tRNA-seq method to Saccharomyces cerevisiae identified all 76 expressed unique tRNA species out of 295 coded in the yeast genome, including all isoacceptor variants, with highly precise relative (fold-change) quantification of tRNAs. In studies of stress-induced changes in tRNA levels, we found that oxidation (H2O2) and alkylation (methylmethane sulfonate, MMS) stresses induced nearly identical patterns of up- and down-regulation for 58 tRNAs. However, 18 tRNAs showed opposing changes for the stresses, which parallels our observation of signature reprogramming of tRNA modifications caused by H2O2 and MMS. Further, stress-induced degradation was limited to only a small proportion of a few tRNA species. With tRNA-seq applicable to any organism, these results suggest that translational control of stress response involves a contribution from tRNA abundance.

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Down-RegulationHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingReverse TranscriptionRNA, TransferSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSequence AlignmentSequence Analysis, RNAStress, PhysiologicalUp-RegulationRNA, Transfer

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PMID25348403
PMCPMC4267671
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