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ArticleNature communications2016

tRNA-mediated codon-biased translation in mycobacterial hypoxic persistence.

Yok Hian Chionh, Megan McBee, I Ramesh Babu, Fabian Hia, Wenwei Lin, Wei Zhao, Jianshu Cao, Agnieszka Dziergowska, Andrzej Malkiewicz, Thomas J Begley and 2 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 134 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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134citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
8.9field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

134 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 186 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.

Yok Hian ChionhInfectious Disease Interdisciplinary Research Group, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, 1 CREATE Way, #03-14 Enterprise Wing, Singapore 138602, Singapore.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4909-8382
Megan McBeeInfectious Disease Interdisciplinary Research Group, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, 1 CREATE Way, #03-14 Enterprise Wing, Singapore 138602, Singapore.
I Ramesh BabuDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
Fabian HiaInfectious Disease Interdisciplinary Research Group, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, 1 CREATE Way, #03-14 Enterprise Wing, Singapore 138602, Singapore.
Wenwei LinDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology Programme, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, 28 Medical Drive, Centre for Life Sciences, Level 3, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117456, Singapore.
Wei ZhaoInfectious Disease Interdisciplinary Research Group, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, 1 CREATE Way, #03-14 Enterprise Wing, Singapore 138602, Singapore.
Jianshu CaoInfectious Disease Interdisciplinary Research Group, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, 1 CREATE Way, #03-14 Enterprise Wing, Singapore 138602, Singapore.
Agnieszka DziergowskaInstitute of Organic Chemistry, Lodz University of Technology, Zeromskiego street 116, 90-924 Lodz, Poland.
Andrzej MalkiewiczInstitute of Organic Chemistry, Lodz University of Technology, Zeromskiego street 116, 90-924 Lodz, Poland.
Thomas J BegleyCollege of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, State University of New York, 257 Fuller Road, Albany, New York 12203, USA.
Sylvie AlonsoInfectious Disease Interdisciplinary Research Group, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, 1 CREATE Way, #03-14 Enterprise Wing, Singapore 138602, Singapore.
Peter C DedonInfectious Disease Interdisciplinary Research Group, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, 1 CREATE Way, #03-14 Enterprise Wing, Singapore 138602, Singapore.
Singapore-HUJ Alliance for Research and Enterprise · SGNational University of Singapore · SGLodz University of Technology · PLAlbany State University · USCenter for Environmental Health · USMassachusetts Institute of Technology · US

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 P30 ES002109NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES017010
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microbial pathogens adapt to the stress of infection by regulating transcription, translation and protein modification. We report that changes in gene expression in hypoxia-induced non-replicating persistence in mycobacteria-which models tuberculous granulomas-are partly determined by a mechanism of tRNA reprogramming and codon-biased translation. Mycobacterium bovis BCG responded to each stage of hypoxia and aerobic resuscitation by uniquely reprogramming 40 modified ribonucleosides in tRNA, which correlate with selective translation of mRNAs from families of codon-biased persistence genes. For example, early hypoxia increases wobble cmo

Indexed as

CodonProtein Processing, Post-TranslationalBacterial ProteinsGene Expression Regulation, BacterialMycobacterium bovisOxygen ConsumptionProtein BiosynthesisRNA, BacterialRNA, MessengerRNA, TransferTranscriptomeBacterial ProteinsCodonRNA, BacterialRNA, MessengerRNA, Transfer

Identifiers

PMID27834374
PMCPMC5114619
OpenAlexW2549510288

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