tRNA therapeutics for genetic diseases

J Coller, Z Ignatova - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2024 - nature.com
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 …

Emerging mechanisms of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase mutations in recessive and dominant human disease

R Meyer-Schuman, A Antonellis - Human molecular genetics, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (ARSs) are responsible for charging amino acids to cognate
tRNA molecules, which is the essential first step of protein translation. Interestingly …

The integrated stress response contributes to tRNA synthetase–associated peripheral neuropathy

EL Spaulding, TJ Hines, P Bais, ALD Tadenev… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Dominant mutations in ubiquitously expressed transfer RNA (tRNA) synthetase genes cause
axonal peripheral neuropathy, accounting for at least six forms of Charcot-Marie-Tooth …

tRNA overexpression rescues peripheral neuropathy caused by mutations in tRNA synthetase

A Zuko, M Mallik, R Thompson, EL Spaulding… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Heterozygous mutations in six transfer RNA (tRNA) synthetase genes cause Charcot-Marie-
Tooth (CMT) peripheral neuropathy. CMT mutant tRNA synthetases inhibit protein synthesis …

THRONCAT: metabolic labeling of newly synthesized proteins using a bioorthogonal threonine analog

BJ Ignacio, J Dijkstra, N Mora, EFJ Slot… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Profiling the nascent cellular proteome and capturing early proteomic changes in response
to external stimuli provides valuable insights into cellular physiology. Existing metabolic …

tRNA dysregulation in neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative diseases

RW Burgess, E Storkebaum - Annual review of cell and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) decode messenger RNA codons to peptides at the ribosome. The
nuclear genome contains many tRNA genes for each amino acid and even each anticodon …

C9orf72 arginine-rich dipeptide proteins interact with ribosomal proteins in vivo to induce a toxic translational arrest that is rescued by eIF1A

TG Moens, T Niccoli, KM Wilson, ML Atilano… - Acta …, 2019 - Springer
A GGGGCC hexanucleotide repeat expansion within the C9orf72 gene is the most common
genetic cause of both amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia. Sense and …

RNA metabolism in neurodegenerative disease

EY Liu, CP Cali, EB Lee - Disease models & mechanisms, 2017 - journals.biologists.com
Aging-related neurodegenerative diseases are progressive and fatal neurological diseases
that are characterized by irreversible neuron loss and gliosis. With a growing population of …

Integrative genetic analysis illuminates ALS heritability and identifies risk genes

S Megat, N Mora, J Sanogo, O Roman… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has substantial heritability, in part shared with fronto-
temporal dementia (FTD). We show that ALS heritability is enriched in splicing variants and …

Progress and challenges in aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase-based therapeutics

CS Francklyn, P Mullen - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2019 - ASBMB
Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (ARSs) are universal enzymes that catalyze the attachment of
amino acids to the 3′ ends of their cognate tRNAs. The resulting aminoacylated tRNAs are …