Tumor abnormality-oriented nanomedicine design

Q Zhou, J Xiang, N Qiu, Y Wang, Y Piao, S Shao… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Anticancer nanomedicines have been proven effective in mitigating the side effects of
chemotherapeutic drugs. However, challenges remain in augmenting their therapeutic …

Role of RNA modifications in cancer

I Barbieri, T Kouzarides - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Specific chemical modifications of biological molecules are an efficient way of regulating
molecular function, and a plethora of downstream signalling pathways are influenced by the …

RNA modifications regulating cell fate in cancer

S Delaunay, M Frye - Nature cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
The deposition of chemical modifications into RNA is a crucial regulator of temporal and
spatial gene expression programs during development. Accordingly, altered RNA …

Impact of tRNA modifications and tRNA-modifying enzymes on proteostasis and human disease

M Pereira, S Francisco, AS Varanda, M Santos… - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) are key players of protein synthesis, as they decode the genetic
information organized in mRNA codons, translating them into the code of 20 amino acids. To …

Cancer plasticity: the role of mRNA translation

LJ Lee, D Papadopoli, M Jewer, S Del Rincon… - Trends in cancer, 2021 - cell.com
Tumor progression is associated with dedifferentiated histopathologies concomitant with
cancer cell survival within a changing, and often hostile, tumor microenvironment. These …

tRNA modifications: insights into their role in human cancers

Y Wang, EW Tao, J Tan, QY Gao, YX Chen… - Trends in Cell Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Transfer RNA (tRNA) plays a central role in translation by functioning as a biological link
between messenger RNA (mRNA) and proteins. One prominent feature of the tRNA …

Elp3‐mediated codon‐dependent translation promotes mTORC2 activation and regulates macrophage polarization

D Chen, I Nemazanyy, O Peulen, K Shostak… - The EMBO …, 2022 - embopress.org
Macrophage polarization is a process whereby macrophages acquire distinct effector states
(M1 or M2) to carry out multiple and sometimes opposite functions. We show here that …

Repertoires of tRNAs: the couplers of genomics and proteomics

R Rak, O Dahan, Y Pilpel - Annual review of cell and …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The pool of transfer RNA (tRNA) molecules in cells allows the ribosome to decode genetic
information. This repertoire of molecular decoders is positioned in the crossroad of the …

The emerging impact of tRNA modifications in the brain and nervous system

J Ramos, D Fu - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Gene Regulatory …, 2019 - Elsevier
A remarkable number of neurodevelopmental disorders have been linked to defects in tRNA
modifications. These discoveries place tRNA modifications in the spotlight as critical …

Codon optimality in cancer

SL Gillen, JA Waldron, M Bushell - Oncogene, 2021 - nature.com
A key characteristic of cancer cells is their increased proliferative capacity, which requires
elevated levels of protein synthesis. The process of protein synthesis involves the translation …