Role of tRNA modifications in human diseases

AG Torres, E Batlle, LR de Pouplana - Trends in molecular medicine, 2014 - cell.com
Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) are key for efficient and accurate protein translation. To be fully
active, tRNAs need to be heavily modified post-transcriptionally. Growing evidence indicates …

Salicylic Acid and its Function in Plant ImmunityF

C An, Z Mou - Journal of integrative plant biology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Zhonglin Mou (Corresponding author) The small phenolic compound salicylic acid
(SA) plays an important regulatory role in multiple physiological processes including plant …

Codon-specific translation reprogramming promotes resistance to targeted therapy

F Rapino, S Delaunay, F Rambow, Z Zhou, L Tharun… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Reprogramming of mRNA translation has a key role in cancer development and drug
resistance. However, the molecular mechanisms that are involved in this process remain …

Modelling pathogenesis and treatment of familial dysautonomia using patient-specific iPSCs

G Lee, EP Papapetrou, H Kim, SM Chambers… - nature, 2009 - nature.com
The isolation of human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs),, offers a new strategy for
modelling human disease. Recent studies have reported the derivation and differentiation of …

The pathobiology of splicing

AJ Ward, TA Cooper - The Journal of Pathology: A Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Ninety‐four percent of human genes are discontinuous, such that segments expressed as
mRNA are contained within exons and separated by intervening segments, called introns …

The intrinsic cardiac nervous system and its role in cardiac pacemaking and conduction

L Fedele, T Brand - Journal of cardiovascular development and disease, 2020 - mdpi.com
The cardiac autonomic nervous system (CANS) plays a key role for the regulation of cardiac
activity with its dysregulation being involved in various heart diseases, such as cardiac …

Elongator controls the migration and differentiation of cortical neurons through acetylation of α-tubulin

C Creppe, L Malinouskaya, ML Volvert, M Gillard… - Cell, 2009 - cell.com
The generation of cortical projection neurons relies on the coordination of radial migration
with branching. Here, we report that the multisubunit histone acetyltransferase Elongator …

Breaking barriers to transcription elongation

A Saunders, LJ Core, JT Lis - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2006 - nature.com
Hundreds of protein factors participate in transcription and its regulation in eukaryotes. Many
of these proteins regulate specific genes by targeting upstream promoter regions, whereas a …

A dynamic unfolded protein response contributes to the control of cortical neurogenesis

S Laguesse, C Creppe, DD Nedialkova, PP Prevot… - Developmental cell, 2015 - cell.com
The cerebral cortex contains layers of neurons sequentially generated by distinct lineage-
related progenitors. At the onset of corticogenesis, the first-born progenitors are apical …

Elp3 links tRNA modification to IRES-dependent translation of LEF1 to sustain metastasis in breast cancer

S Delaunay, F Rapino, L Tharun, Z Zhou… - Journal of Experimental …, 2016 - rupress.org
Quantitative and qualitative changes in mRNA translation occur in tumor cells and support
cancer progression and metastasis. Posttranscriptional modifications of transfer RNAs …