The physiological functions of human peroxisomes

RJA Wanders, M Baes, D Ribeiro… - Physiological …, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
Peroxisomes are subcellular organelles that play a central role in human physiology by
catalyzing a range of unique metabolic functions. The importance of peroxisomes for human …

Peroxisomal metabolite and cofactor transport in humans

S Chornyi, L IJlst, CWT van Roermund… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Peroxisomes are membrane-bound organelles involved in many metabolic pathways and
essential for human health. They harbor a large number of enzymes involved in the different …

[HTML][HTML] Detailed dissection and critical evaluation of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna mRNA vaccines

X Xia - Vaccines, 2021 - mdpi.com
The design of Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna mRNA vaccines involves many different types
of optimizations. Proper optimization of vaccine mRNA can reduce dosage required for each …

Stop-codon read-through arises largely from molecular errors and is generally nonadaptive

C Li, J Zhang - PLoS genetics, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Stop-codon read-through refers to the phenomenon that a ribosome goes past the stop
codon and continues translating into the otherwise untranslated region (UTR) of a transcript …

[HTML][HTML] Human peroxisomal NAD+/NADH homeostasis is regulated by two independent NAD (H) shuttle systems

S Chornyi, CF Costa, L IJlst, M Fransen… - Free Radical Biology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Reduced (NADH) and oxidized (NAD+) nicotinamide adenine dinucleotides are ubiquitous
hydride-donating/accepting cofactors that are essential for cellular bioenergetics …

Evolution of termination codons of proteins and the TAG-TGA paradox

M Trexler, L Bányai, K Kerekes, L Patthy - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
In most eukaryotes and prokaryotes TGA is used at a significantly higher frequency than
TAG as termination codon of protein-coding genes. Although this phenomenon has been …

Mammalian proteome expansion by stop codon readthrough

LE Manjunath, A Singh, S Som… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recognition of a stop codon by translation machinery as a sense codon results in
translational readthrough instead of termination. This recoding process, termed stop codon …

Monitoring translation in all reading frames downstream of weak stop codons provides mechanistic insights into the impact of nucleotide and cellular contexts

G Loughran, X Li, S O'Loughlin, JF Atkins… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
A stop codon entering the ribosome A-site is normally decoded by release factors that
induce release of the polypeptide. Certain factors influence the efficiency of the termination …

Cell-type-specific profiling of alternative translation identifies regulated protein isoform variation in the mouse brain

D Sapkota, AM Lake, W Yang, C Yang, H Wesseling… - Cell reports, 2019 - cell.com
Alternative translation initiation and stop codon readthrough in a few well-studied cases
have been shown to allow the same transcript to generate multiple protein variants. Because …

Transcriptome-wide investigation of stop codon readthrough in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

K Mangkalaphiban, F He, R Ganesan, C Wu… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Translation of mRNA into a polypeptide is terminated when the release factor eRF1
recognizes a UAA, UAG, or UGA stop codon in the ribosomal A site and stimulates nascent …