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Full-Text Articles in Enzymes and Coenzymes
Dna Extrusion Size Determines Pathway Choice During Cag Repeat Expansion, Mayuri Bhatia, Ashutosh S. Phadte, Anna Lakhina, Anthony R. Monte Carloi Iii, Sarah Barndt, Anna Pluciennik
Dna Extrusion Size Determines Pathway Choice During Cag Repeat Expansion, Mayuri Bhatia, Ashutosh S. Phadte, Anna Lakhina, Anthony R. Monte Carloi Iii, Sarah Barndt, Anna Pluciennik
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty Papers
DNA triplet repeat expansion causes several primarly neurological disorders like Huntington's disease, myotonic dystrophy type 1, and fragile-X related disorders. There is general consensus that recognition of extrahelical extrusions or hairpin-loop structures (formed by strand slippage) by the DNA mismatch repair protein MutSβ leads to repeat expansion by a mutagenic process. By contrast, the FAN1 nuclease attenuates triplet repeat expansion, the molecular basis of which was explained by our recent finding that FAN1 nuclease cleaves and initiates removal of extrahelical extrusions. Here we show that extrusions containing two or more triplet repeats are subject to recognition and processing by either …
Post-Transcriptional Methylation Of Mitochondrial-Trna Differentially Contributes To Mitochondrial Pathology, Sunita Maharjan, Howard Gamper, Yuka Yamaki, Thomas W. Christian, Robert Y. Henley, Nan-Sheng Li, Takeo Suzuki, Tsutomu Suzuki, Joseph A. Piccirilli, Meni Wanunu, Erin L. Seifert, Douglas C. Wallace, Ya-Ming Hou
Post-Transcriptional Methylation Of Mitochondrial-Trna Differentially Contributes To Mitochondrial Pathology, Sunita Maharjan, Howard Gamper, Yuka Yamaki, Thomas W. Christian, Robert Y. Henley, Nan-Sheng Li, Takeo Suzuki, Tsutomu Suzuki, Joseph A. Piccirilli, Meni Wanunu, Erin L. Seifert, Douglas C. Wallace, Ya-Ming Hou
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty Papers
Human mitochondrial tRNAs (mt-tRNAs), critical for mitochondrial biogenesis, are frequently associated with pathogenic mutations. These mt-tRNAs have unusual sequence motifs and require post-transcriptional modifications to stabilize their fragile structures. However, whether a modification that stabilizes a wild-type (WT) mt-tRNA would also stabilize its pathogenic variants is unknown. Here we show that the N1-methylation of guanosine at position 9 (m1G9) of mt-Leu(UAA), while stabilizing the WT tRNA, has a destabilizing effect on variants associated with MELAS (mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes). This differential effect is further demonstrated, as removal of the m1G9 …