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ArticleScientific reports2017

Identification of sites of 2'-O-methylation vulnerability in human ribosomal RNAs by systematic mapping.

Sunny Sharma, Virginie Marchand, Yuri Motorin, Denis L J Lafontaine

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 96 papers.

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96citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

96 citing papers in PubMed, 130 citations in OpenAlex.

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  17. Impacts of ribosomal RNA sequence variation on gene expression and phenotype.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  19. SNORD80-guided 2'-O-methylation stabilizes the lncRNA GAS5 to regulate cellular stress responses.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Sunny SharmaRNA Molecular Biology and Center for Microscopy and Molecular Imaging (CMMI), Fonds National de la Recherche (F.R.S./FNRS) and Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), BioPark campus Gosselies, Belgium.
Virginie MarchandNext-Generation Sequencing Core Facility, FR3209 BMCT, CNRS-Lorraine University, 9 avenue de la Forêt de Haye, 54505, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France.
Yuri MotorinNext-Generation Sequencing Core Facility, FR3209 BMCT, CNRS-Lorraine University, 9 avenue de la Forêt de Haye, 54505, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France. yuri.motorin@univ-lorraine.fr.
Denis L J LafontaineRNA Molecular Biology and Center for Microscopy and Molecular Imaging (CMMI), Fonds National de la Recherche (F.R.S./FNRS) and Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), BioPark campus Gosselies, Belgium. denis.lafontaine@ulb.ac.be.ORCID 0000-0001-7295-6288
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRNational Research Fund Luxembourg · LU

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ribosomal RNA modifications are important in optimizing ribosome function. Sugar 2'-O-methylation performed by fibrillarin-associated box C/D antisense guide snoRNAs impacts all steps of translation, playing a role in disease etiology (cancer). As it renders adjacent phosphodiester bonds resistant to alkaline treatment, 2'-O-methylation can be monitored qualitatively and quantitatively by applying next-generation sequencing to fragments of randomly cleaved RNA. We remapped all sites of 2'-O-methylation in human rRNAs in two isogenic diploid cell lines, one producing and one not producing the antitumor protein p53. We identified sites naturally modified only partially (confirming the existence in cells of compositionally distinct ribosomes with potentially specialized functions) and sites whose 2'-O-methylation is sensitive to p53. We mapped sites particularly vulnerable to a reduced level of the methyltransferase fibrillarin. The remarkable fact that these are largely sites of natural hypomodification provides initial insights into the mechanism of partial RNA modification. Sites where methylation appeared vulnerable lie peripherally on the 3-D structure of the ribosomal subunits, whereas the numerous modifications present at the core of the subunits, where the functional centers lie, appeared robustly made. We suggest that vulnerable sites of 2'-O-methylation are highly likely to undergo specific regulation during normal and pathological processes.

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Cell Line, TumorCell SurvivalChromosomal Proteins, Non-HistoneChromosome MappingCluster AnalysisComputational BiologyGenes, p53HumansMethylationMicrosatellite RepeatsModels, MolecularMolecular ConformationProtein BindingRibosomesRNA InterferenceRNA, RibosomalChromosomal Proteins, Non-HistonefibrillarinRNA, RibosomalRNA, Ribosomal, 18SRNA, Ribosomal, 5.8S

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PMID28904332
PMCPMC5597630
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