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ArticleNucleic acids research2022

Eukaryotic tRNA sequences present conserved and amino acid-specific structural signatures.

Eric Westhof, Bryan Thornlow, Patricia P Chan, Todd M Lowe

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Eric WesthofUniversité de Strasbourg, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN, CNRS UPR 9002, 2, allée Konrad Roentgen, F-67084 Strasbourg, France.ORCID 0000-0002-6172-5422
Bryan ThornlowDepartment of Biomolecular Engineering, Baskin School of Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
Patricia P ChanDepartment of Biomolecular Engineering, Baskin School of Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
Todd M LoweDepartment of Biomolecular Engineering, Baskin School of Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3253-6021
University of California, Santa Cruz · USCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FR

Funding

A Unified Atlas of Dynamic tRNA FunctionR01HG006753 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ · PI LOWE, TODD MICHAEL · 2012 to 2022
$4.6M
Evolutionary dynamics of tRNA genesF31HG010584 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ · PI THORNLOW, BRYAN PATRICK · 2019 to 2021
$86k
NHGRI NIH HHS F31 HG010584NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG006753
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Metazoan organisms have many tRNA genes responsible for decoding amino acids. The set of all tRNA genes can be grouped in sets of common amino acids and isoacceptor tRNAs that are aminoacylated by corresponding aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases. Analysis of tRNA alignments shows that, despite the high number of tRNA genes, specific tRNA sequence motifs are highly conserved across multicellular eukaryotes. The conservation often extends throughout the isoacceptors and isodecoders with, in some cases, two sets of conserved isodecoders. This study is focused on non-Watson-Crick base pairs in the helical stems, especially GoU pairs. Each of the four helical stems may contain one or more conserved GoU pairs. Some are amino acid specific and could represent identity elements for the cognate aminoacyl tRNA synthetases. Other GoU pairs are found in more than a single amino acid and could be critical for native folding of the tRNAs. Interestingly, some GoU pairs are anticodon-specific, and others are found in phylogenetically-specific clades. Although the distribution of conservation likely reflects a balance between accommodating isotype-specific functions as well as those shared by all tRNAs essential for ribosomal translation, such conservations may indicate the existence of specialized tRNAs for specific translation targets, cellular conditions, or alternative functions.

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Amino Acyl-tRNA SynthetasesRNA, TransferAmino AcidsAnimalsAnticodonBase PairingEukaryotaHumansNucleic Acid ConformationAmino AcidsAmino Acyl-tRNA SynthetasesAnticodonRNA, Transfer

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PMID35380696
PMCPMC9023262
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