tRNAs as regulators of biological processes

M Raina, M Ibba - Frontiers in genetics, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Transfer RNAs (tRNA) are best known for their role as adaptors during translation of the
genetic code. Beyond their canonical role during protein biosynthesis, tRNAs also perform …

tiRNAs: A novel class of small noncoding RNAs that helps cells respond to stressors and plays roles in cancer progression

EW Tao, WY Cheng, WL Li, J Yu… - Journal of Cellular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract tRNA‐derived stress‐induced RNAs (tiRNAs), important components of tRNA‐
derived fragments, are gaining popularity for their functions as small noncoding RNAs …

Small RNAs derived from tRNAs and rRNAs are highly enriched in exosomes from both old and new world Leishmania providing evidence for conserved exosomal …

U Lambertz, ME Oviedo Ovando, EJR Vasconcelos… - BMC genomics, 2015 - Springer
Background Leishmania use exosomes to communicate with their mammalian hosts and
these secreted vesicles appear to contribute to pathogenesis by delivering protein virulence …

Uropathogenic Escherichia coli Releases Extracellular Vesicles That Are Associated with RNA

C Blenkiron, D Simonov, A Muthukaruppan, P Tsai… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Background Bacterium-to-host signalling during infection is a complex process involving
proteins, lipids and other diffusible signals that manipulate host cell biology for pathogen …

Fundamental Roles of the Golgi-Associated Toxoplasma Aspartyl Protease, ASP5, at the Host-Parasite Interface

PM Hammoudi, D Jacot, C Mueller, M Di Cristina… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Toxoplasma gondii possesses sets of dense granule proteins (GRAs) that either assemble
at, or cross the parasitophorous vacuole membrane (PVM) and exhibit motifs resembling the …

Toxoplasma depends on lysosomal consumption of autophagosomes for persistent infection

M Di Cristina, Z Dou, M Lunghi, G Kannan… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Globally, nearly 2 billion people are infected with the intracellular protozoan Toxoplasma
gondii 1. This persistent infection can cause severe disease in immunocompromised people …

mRNA pseudouridylation affects RNA metabolism in the parasite Toxoplasma gondii

MA Nakamoto, AF Lovejoy, AM Cygan, JC Boothroyd - Rna, 2017 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
RNA contains over 100 modified nucleotides that are created post-transcriptionally, among
which pseudouridine (Ψ) is one of the most abundant. Although it was one of the first …

Surveillance and cleavage of eukaryotic tRNAs

C Megel, G Morelle, S Lalande, AM Duchêne… - International journal of …, 2015 - mdpi.com
Beyond their central role in protein synthesis, transfer RNAs (tRNAs) have many other
crucial functions. This includes various roles in the regulation of gene expression, stress …

[HTML][HTML] Transfer RNA as a source of small functional RNA

M Shigematsu, S Honda, Y Kirino - Journal of molecular biology …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Since their discovery in the 1950s, transfer RNAs (tRNAs) have been best known as adapter
molecules that play a central role in translating genetic information. However, recent …

[HTML][HTML] Observations on bradyzoite biology

V Tu, R Yakubu, LM Weiss - Microbes and infection, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Tachyzoites of the Apicomplexan Toxoplasma gondii cause acute infection,
disseminate widely in their host, and eventually differentiate into a latent encysted form …