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ArticleMethods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)2026

Analysis of tRNA Aminoacylation by Northern Blotting and Multiplex Small RNA-Seq.

Jennifer Porat, Christopher P Watkins, Mark A Bayfield

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Article in Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Jennifer Porat *Department of Biology, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Christopher P Watkins *Stem Cell Program and Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Mark A BayfieldDepartment of Biology, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada. bayfield@yorku.ca.

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Abstract

Measuring RNA folding is particularly challenging for tRNAs, where extensive structure and posttranscriptional modifications complicate traditional structure probing and reverse-transcriptase-based assays. Since tRNA folding is a prerequisite for aminoacylation, quantifying tRNA aminoacylation is often used as an indirect, though functionally relevant, measure of tRNA folding. Periodate oxidation and beta-elimination, resulting in the selective loss of the 3' terminal nucleotide of deacylated tRNAs, is an amino-acid-agnostic chemistry that enables differentiation of aminoacylated and deacylated tRNAs when coupled to high-resolution northern blotting or RNA sequencing. Quantification of tRNA aminoacylation has been used to demonstrate RNA chaperone activity for RNA-binding proteins that promote tRNA folding to increase the fraction of aminoacylated tRNAs, underscoring the utility of this assay in interrogating RNA chaperone-assisted tRNA folding and function.

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Blotting, NorthernRNA, TransferSequence Analysis, RNATransfer RNA AminoacylationNucleic Acid ConformationRNA FoldingRNA, TransferAminoacylationNorthern blottingSmall RNA sequencingtRNA

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PMID42681193

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