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ArticleNucleic acids research2021

Pseudouridine-mediated translation control of mRNA by methionine aminoacyl tRNA synthetase.

Ofri Levi, Yoav S Arava

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers.

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47citing papers in PubMed
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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47 citing papers in PubMed, 70 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The impact of psuedouridine modification on human tRNA.Biochemical Society transactions · 2026
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  12. Functions and therapeutic applications of pseudouridylation.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2025
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  20. RNA modifications and their role in gene expression.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ofri LeviFaculty of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel.
Yoav S AravaFaculty of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel.
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology · IL

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Modification of nucleotides within an mRNA emerges as a key path for gene expression regulation. Pseudouridine is one of the most common RNA modifications; however, only a few mRNA modifiers have been identified to date, and no one mRNA pseudouridine reader is known. Here, we applied a novel genome-wide approach to identify mRNA regions that are bound by yeast methionine aminoacyl tRNAMet synthetase (MetRS). We found a clear enrichment to regions that were previously described to contain pseudouridine (Ψ). Follow-up in vitro and in vivo analyses on a prime target (position 1074 within YEF3 mRNA) demonstrated the importance of pseudouridine for MetRS binding. Furthermore, polysomal and protein analyses revealed that Ψ1074 mediates translation. Modification of this site occurs presumably by Pus6, a pseudouridine synthetase known to modify MetRS cognate tRNA. Consistently, the deletion of Pus6 leads to a decrease in MetRS association with both tRNAMet and YEF3 mRNA. Furthermore, while global protein synthesis decreases in pus6Δ, translation of YEF3 increases. Together, our data imply that Pus6 'writes' modifications on tRNA and mRNA, and both types of RNAs are 'read' by MetRS for translation regulation purposes. This represents a novel integrated path for writing and reading modifications on both tRNA and mRNA, which may lead to coordination between global and gene-specific translational responses.

Indexed as

Gene Expression Regulation, FungalProtein BiosynthesisCRISPR-Cas SystemsMethionineMethionine-tRNA LigasePeptide Elongation FactorsPolyribosomesProtein BindingPseudouridineRNA, FungalRNA, MessengerRNA Processing, Post-TranscriptionalSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsMethionineMethionine-tRNA LigasePeptide Elongation FactorsPseudouridineRNA, FungalRNA, MessengerSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsYEF3 protein, S cerevisiae

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PMID33305314
PMCPMC7797078
OpenAlexW3111758964

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