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Post-Transcriptional Modifications of Conserved Nucleotides in the T-Loop of tRNA: A Tale of Functional Convergent Evolution.

Martine Roovers, Louis Droogmans, Henri Grosjean

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Review in Genes, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. The Landscape of tRNA Modifications in Archaea.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  9. Functions and therapeutic applications of pseudouridylation.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2025
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  11. The highly conserved intron of tyrosine tRNA is critical forProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  14. 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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  18. Epitranscriptome: Review of Top 25 Most-Studied RNA Modifications.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Martine RooversLabiris, Avenue E. Gryson 1, 1070 Bruxelles, Belgium.
Louis DroogmansLaboratoire de Chimie Biologique, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Labiris, Avenue E. Gryson 1, 1070 Bruxelles, Belgium.
Henri GrosjeanLaboratoire de Chimie Biologique, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Labiris, Avenue E. Gryson 1, 1070 Bruxelles, Belgium.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The high conservation of nucleotides of the T-loop, including their chemical identity, are hallmarks of tRNAs from organisms belonging to the three Domains of Life. These structural characteristics allow the T-loop to adopt a peculiar intraloop conformation able to interact specifically with other conserved residues of the D-loop, which ultimately folds the mature tRNA in a unique functional canonical L-shaped architecture. Paradoxically, despite the high conservation of modified nucleotides in the T-loop, enzymes catalyzing their formation depend mostly on the considered organism, attesting for an independent but convergent evolution of the post-transcriptional modification processes. The driving force behind this is the preservation of a native conformation of the tRNA elbow that underlies the various interactions of tRNA molecules with different cellular components.

Indexed as

Base SequenceConserved SequenceEvolution, MolecularNucleic Acid ConformationRNA Processing, Post-TranscriptionalGene Expression RegulationGene Expression Regulation, EnzymologicHumansMicrobiologyRNA, TransferStructure-Activity RelationshipRNA, Transferevolutionnucleotide modificationsT-looptRNA

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PMID33499018
PMCPMC7912444

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