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ArticlePloS one2016

Determinants of tRNA Recognition by the Radical SAM Enzyme RlmN.

Christina M Fitzsimmons, Danica Galonić Fujimori

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Article in PloS one, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 38% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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10 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Christina M FitzsimmonsChemistry and Chemical Biology Graduate Program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America.
Danica Galonić FujimoriDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America.
University of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

RESEARCH TRAINING IN CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGYT32GM064337 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI CRAIK, CHARLES SCOTT · 2002 to 2021
$7.8M
Radical SAM MethytransferasesR01AI095393 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI FUJIMORI, DANICA GALONIC · 2011 to 2015
$1.7M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI095393NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM064337
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

RlmN, a bacterial radical SAM methylating enzyme, has the unusual ability to modify two distinct types of RNA: 23S rRNA and tRNA. In rRNA, RlmN installs a methyl group at the C2 position of A2503 of 23S rRNA, while in tRNA the modification occurs at nucleotide A37, immediately adjacent to the anticodon triplet. Intriguingly, only a subset of tRNAs that contain an adenosine at position 37 are substrates for RlmN, suggesting that the enzyme carefully probes the highly conserved tRNA fold and sequence features to identify its targets. Over the past several years, multiple studies have addressed rRNA modification by RlmN, while relatively few investigations have focused on the ability of this enzyme to modify tRNAs. In this study, we utilized in vitro transcribed tRNAs as model substrates to interrogate RNA recognition by RlmN. Using chimeras and point mutations, we probed how the structure and sequence of RNA influences methylation, identifying position 38 of tRNAs as a critical determinant of substrate recognition. We further demonstrate that, analogous to previous mechanistic studies with fragments of 23S rRNA, tRNA methylation requirements are consistent with radical SAM reactivity. Together, our findings provide detailed insight into tRNA recognition by a radical SAM methylating enzyme.

Indexed as

MethylationMethyltransferasesPoint MutationProtein BindingRNA, TransferS-AdenosylmethionineTranscription, GeneticMethyltransferasesRNA, TransferS-Adenosylmethionine

Identifiers

PMID27902775
PMCPMC5130265
OpenAlexW2558884772

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