Evidence map›Paper›PMID 38049504›Full record

ReviewNature reviews. Drug discovery2024

tRNA therapeutics for genetic diseases.

Jeff Coller, Zoya Ignatova

Abstract readReview
PubMed Publisher
In one paragraph

Review in Nature reviews. Drug discovery, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
52citing papers in PubMed
9.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

52 citing papers in PubMed, 62 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Review
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. The regulation, function and disease relevance of cytoplasmic tRNAs.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2026
    Review
  8. Article
  9. Article
  10. Optimized tRNA structure-seq reveals robust tRNA secondary structures inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
    Article
  11. Review
  12. Article
  13. Article
  14. Article
  15. Article
  16. Article
  17. Mitochondrial tRNA-Derived Diseases.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
    Review
  18. Precision therapeutic tRNA rescue of nonsense mutation R166X inJournal of precision medicine (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2025
    Article
  19. Mistranslating tRNA variants impact the proteome and phosphoproteome ofbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
    Article
  20. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Jeff CollerDepartment of Molecular Biology and Genetics, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. jmcoller@jhmi.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-5662-8110
Zoya IgnatovaInstitute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany. zoya.ignatova@uni-hamburg.de.ORCID 0000-0002-9478-8825
Johns Hopkins University · USUniversität Hamburg · DE

Funding

Ribosomal perturbation as a mechanism to prevent misfolding of CFTRR01HL136414 · NHLBI · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI HARTMAN, JOHN L, SORSCHER, ERIC J · 2018 to 2025
$4.5M
Understanding the relationship between codon optimality and mRNA stabilityR35GM144114 · NIGMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Jeffery Coller · 2022 to 2026
$3.0M
NHLBI NIH HHS 1R01HL136414-05NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL136414NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM144114
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) have a crucial role in protein synthesis, and in recent years, their therapeutic potential for the treatment of genetic diseases - primarily those associated with a mutation altering mRNA translation - has gained significant attention. Engineering tRNAs to readthrough nonsense mutation-associated premature termination of mRNA translation can restore protein synthesis and function. In addition, supplementation of natural tRNAs can counteract effects of missense mutations in proteins crucial for tRNA biogenesis and function in translation. This Review will present advances in the development of tRNA therapeutics with high activity and safety in vivo and discuss different formulation approaches for single or chronic treatment modalities. The field of tRNA therapeutics is still in its early stages, and a series of challenges related to tRNA efficacy and stability in vivo, delivery systems with tissue-specific tropism, and safe and efficient manufacturing need to be addressed.

Indexed as

Codon, NonsenseRNA, TransferHumansMutationProtein BiosynthesisCodon, NonsenseRNA, Transfer

Identifiers

PMID38049504
OpenAlexW4389306320

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.