Advances in tRNA Biology

A special issue of Biomolecules (ISSN 2218-273X). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomacromolecules: Nucleic Acids".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2024 | Viewed by 1872

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College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
Interests: Indirect tRNA aminoacylation; accuracy mechanisms in protein biosynthesis; membrane proteins; protein-protein interactions; enzyme kinetics; diversity in STEM; women in STEM
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Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue, entitled “Advances in tRNA Biology”, will focus on the myriad of different functional roles played by tRNAs in biology. We invite the submission of reviews, research, and method articles that focus on any aspect of tRNA biology, including their canonical roles in tRNA aminoacylation and translation; alternative functions, e.g., as primers in viral reverse transcription; tRNA processing and modifications; and beyond. 

Dr. Tamara Hendrickson
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Plasmodium, the Apicomplexa Outlier When It Comes to Protein Synthesis
by José R. Jaramillo Ponce and Magali Frugier
Biomolecules 2024, 14(1), 46; https://doi.org/10.3390/biom14010046 - 29 Dec 2023
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Plasmodium is an obligate intracellular parasite that has numerous interactions with different hosts during its elaborate life cycle. This is also the case for the other parasites belonging to the same phylum Apicomplexa. In this study, we bioinformatically identified the components of [...] Read more.
Plasmodium is an obligate intracellular parasite that has numerous interactions with different hosts during its elaborate life cycle. This is also the case for the other parasites belonging to the same phylum Apicomplexa. In this study, we bioinformatically identified the components of the multi-synthetase complexes (MSCs) of several Apicomplexa parasites and modelled their assembly using AlphaFold2. It appears that none of these MSCs resemble the two MSCs that we have identified and characterized in Plasmodium. Indeed, tRip, the central protein involved in the association of the two Plasmodium MSCs is different from its homologues, suggesting also that the tRip-dependent import of exogenous tRNAs is not conserved in other apicomplexan parasites. Based on this observation, we searched for obvious differences that could explain the singularity of Plasmodium protein synthesis by comparing tRNA genes and amino acid usage in the different genomes. We noted a contradiction between the large number of asparagine residues used in Plasmodium proteomes and the single gene encoding the tRNA that inserts them into proteins. This observation remains true for all the Plasmodia strains studied, even those that do not contain long asparagine homorepeats. Full article
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