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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2016

The Pseudouridine Synthases Proceed through a Glycal Intermediate.

Govardhan Reddy Veerareddygari, Sanjay K Singh, Eugene G Mueller

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The impact of psuedouridine modification on human tRNA.Biochemical Society transactions · 2026
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  3. Archaeal RNA processing and regulation: expanding the functional landscape.Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2025
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  6. Reinvestigation of theJournal of the American Chemical Society · 2025
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  9. Modifications in the T arm of tRNA globally determine tRNA maturation, function, and cellular fitness.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  14. Pseudouridine synthase 7 is an opportunistic enzyme that binds and modifies substrates with diverse sequences and structures.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  15. Structure Characterization ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Govardhan Reddy VeerareddygariDepartment of Chemistry, University of Louisville , Louisville, Kentucky 40205, United States.
Sanjay K SinghDepartment of Chemistry, University of Louisville , Louisville, Kentucky 40205, United States.
Eugene G MuellerDepartment of Chemistry, University of Louisville , Louisville, Kentucky 40205, United States.

Funding

PSEUDOURIDINE SYNTHASESR01GM059636 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE · PI MUELLER, EUGENE G · 1999 to 2009
$1.6M
Mechanistic Elucidation of RNA Modifying EnzymesR15GM107820 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE · PI MUELLER, EUGENE G · 2013 to 2013
$334k
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM059636NIGMS NIH HHS R15 GM107820
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The pseudouridine synthases isomerize (U) in RNA to pseudouridine (Ψ), and the mechanism that they follow has long been a question of interest. The recent elucidation of a product of the mechanistic probe 5-fluorouridine that had been epimerized to the arabino isomer suggested that the Ψ synthases might operate through a glycal intermediate formed by deprotonation of C2'. When that position in substrate U is deuterated, a primary kinetic isotope effect is observed, which indisputably indicates that the proposed deprotonation occurs during the isomerization of U to Ψ and establishes the mechanism followed by the Ψ synthases.

Indexed as

AnionsChemistry, OrganicCrystallizationIntramolecular TransferasesKineticsNucleic Acid ConformationPolysaccharidesProtein IsoformsProtonsPseudouridineRNAUridine5-fluorouridineAnionsIntramolecular TransferasesPolysaccharidesProtein IsoformsProtonsPseudouridinepseudouridine synthasesRNAUridine

Identifiers

PMID27292228
PMCPMC4929527

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