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ReviewNature reviews. Molecular cell biology2025

Functions and therapeutic applications of pseudouridylation.

Nan Luo, Qiang Huang, Meiling Zhang, Chengqi Yi

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Review in Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Nan Luo *State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Qiang Huang *State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Meiling Zhang *State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Chengqi YiState Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China. chengqi.yi@pku.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2540-9729

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The success of using pseudouridine (Ψ) and its methylation derivative in mRNA vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 has sparked a renewed interest in this RNA modification, known as the 'fifth nucleotide' of RNA. In this Review, we discuss the emerging functions of pseudouridylation in gene regulation, focusing on how pseudouridine in mRNA, tRNA and ribosomal RNA (rRNA) regulates translation. We also discuss the effects of pseudouridylation on RNA secondary structure, pre-mRNA splicing, and in vitro mRNA stability. In addition to nuclear-genome-encoded RNAs, pseudouridine is also present in mitochondria-encoded rRNA, mRNA and tRNA, where it has different distributions and functions compared with their nuclear counterparts. We then discuss the therapeutic potential of programmable pseudouridylation and mRNA vaccine optimization through pseudouridylation. Lastly, we briefly describe the latest quantitative pseudouridine detection methods. We posit that pseudouridine is a highly promising modification that merits further epitranscriptomics investigation and therapeutic application.

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COVID-19PseudouridineAnimalsCOVID-19 VaccinesGene Expression RegulationHumansRNA, MessengerRNA Processing, Post-TranscriptionalRNA, RibosomalRNA, TransferSARS-CoV-2COVID-19 VaccinesPseudouridineRNA, MessengerRNA, RibosomalRNA, Transfer

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