Evidence map›Paper›PMID 37544645›Full record

ReviewThe Journal of biological chemistry2023

New insights into RNA processing by the eukaryotic tRNA splicing endonuclease.

Cassandra K Hayne, Samoil Sekulovski, Jennifer E Hurtig, Robin E Stanley, Simon Trowitzsch, Ambro van Hoof

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Review in The Journal of biological chemistry, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. The regulation, function and disease relevance of cytoplasmic tRNAs.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2026
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  18. Fungi of the order Mucorales express a "sealing-only" tRNA ligase.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Cassandra K HayneDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Electronic address: chayne@uchicago.edu.
Samoil SekulovskiInstitute of Biochemistry, Biocenter, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Jennifer E HurtigDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, USA.
Robin E StanleySignal Transduction Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National, Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA. Electronic address: robin.stanley@nih.gov.
Simon TrowitzschInstitute of Biochemistry, Biocenter, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Electronic address: trowitzsch@biochem.uni-frankfurt.de.
Ambro van HoofDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, USA. Electronic address: ambro.van.hoof@uth.tmc.edu.
Goethe University Frankfurt · DEThe University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston · USNational Institutes of Health · USUniversity of Chicago · US

Funding

Structure and Function of RNA Processing MachinesZIAES103247 · NIEHS · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES · PI STANLEY, ROBIN · 2015 to 2025
$22.9M
RNAse functions in post-transcriptional gene regulationR35GM141710 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI VAN HOOF, AMBRO · 2021 to 2025
$2.4M
A nanoparticle delivery system for CRISPR/Cas9 based therapeuticsR42TR001711 · NCATS · ATGC, INC. · PI KURODA, KENICHI · 2017 to 2019
$1.7M
Structural and Functional Characterization of Pontocerebellar Hypoplasia Associated NucleasesR00GM143534 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI HAYNE, CASSANDRA K · 2023 to 2025
$800k
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA ES103247NCATS NIH HHS R42 TR001711NIGMS NIH HHS R00 GM143534NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM141710
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Through its role in intron cleavage, tRNA splicing endonuclease (TSEN) plays a critical function in the maturation of intron-containing pre-tRNAs. The catalytic mechanism and core requirement for this process is conserved between archaea and eukaryotes, but for decades, it has been known that eukaryotic TSENs have evolved additional modes of RNA recognition, which have remained poorly understood. Recent research identified new roles for eukaryotic TSEN, including processing or degradation of additional RNA substrates, and determined the first structures of pre-tRNA-bound human TSEN complexes. These recent discoveries have changed our understanding of how the eukaryotic TSEN targets and recognizes substrates. Here, we review these recent discoveries, their implications, and the new questions raised by these findings.

Indexed as

EndoribonucleasesEukaryotaRNA PrecursorsRNA SplicingRNA, TransferHumansIntronsNucleic Acid ConformationSubstrate SpecificityEndoribonucleasesRNA PrecursorsRNA, Transfersplicing endonucleaseprotein structureRNARNA degradationRNA processingtRNA splicingTSEN

Identifiers

PMID37544645
PMCPMC10485636
OpenAlexW4385605120

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