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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2021

Interstrand Aminoacyl Transfer in a tRNA Acceptor Stem-Overhang Mimic.

Long-Fei Wu, Meng Su, Ziwei Liu, Samuel J Bjork, John D Sutherland

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30citing papers in PubMed
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 52 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Synthesis of Nucleoside Derivatives by Biomimetic Ester Migration.Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2025
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  7. Stereoselectivity of Aminoacyl-RNA Loop-Closing Ligation.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2025
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  8. Autocatalytic symmetry breaking and chiral amplification in a feedback network combining amino acid synthesis and ligation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  14. A potential role for RNA aminoacylation prior to its role in peptide synthesis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  15. The Origin of RNA and the Formose-Ribose-RNA Pathway.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Long-Fei WuMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QH, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-0635-1624
Meng SuMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QH, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-6558-8712
Ziwei LiuMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QH, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-1812-2538
Samuel J BjorkMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QH, United Kingdom.
John D SutherlandMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QH, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-7099-4731
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_UP_A024_1009
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Protein-catalyzed aminoacylation of the 3'-overhang of tRNA by an aminoacyl-adenylate could not have taken place prior to the advent of genetically coded peptide synthesis, and yet the latter process has an absolute requirement for aminoacyl-tRNA. There must therefore have been an earlier nonprotein-catalyzed means of generating aminoacyl-tRNA. Here, we demonstrate efficient interstrand aminoacyl transfer from an aminoacyl phosphate mixed anhydride at the 5'-terminus of a tRNA acceptor stem mimic to the 2',3'-diol terminus of a short 3'-overhang. With certain five-base 3'-overhangs, the transfer of an alanyl residue is highly stereoselective with the l-enantiomer being favored to the extent of ∼10:1 over the d-enantiomer and is much more efficient than the transfer of a glycyl residue.

Indexed as

AminoacylationNucleic Acid ConformationRNA, TransferRNA, Transfer

Identifiers

PMID34283595
PMCPMC8397310
OpenAlexW3184980602

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