Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

Wobble tRNA modification and hydrophilic amino acid patterns dictate protein fate

  • Francesca Rapino,
  • Zhaoli Zhou,
  • Ana Maria Roncero Sanchez,
  • Marc Joiret,
  • Christian Seca,
  • Najla El Hachem,
  • Gianluca Valenti,
  • Sara Latini,
  • Kateryna Shostak,
  • Liesbet Geris,
  • Ping Li,
  • Gang Huang,
  • Gabriel Mazzucchelli,
  • Dominique Baiwir,
  • Christophe J. Desmet,
  • Alain Chariot,
  • Michel Georges,
  • Pierre Close

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22254-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Wobble uridine (U34) tRNA modifications are important for the decoding of AA-ending codons. Here the authors show that while the U34-codon content of mRNAs are predictive of changes in ribosome translation elongation, the resulting outcome in protein expression also relies on specific hydrophilic motifs-dependent protein aggregation and clearance.