期刊
RNA
卷 25, 期 10, 页码 1366-1376出版社
COLD SPRING HARBOR LAB PRESS, PUBLICATIONS DEPT
DOI: 10.1261/rna.072090.119
关键词
tRNA modification; filter binding; methylation assay; SPOUT methyltransferase; N-1 methylation
资金
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) [GM130135]
- National Science Foundation (NSF) [CHE1507357, NIH OD018485]
- Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health [S10OD023582]
The tRNA m R-1(9) methyltransferase (Trm10) family is conserved throughout Eukarya and Archaea. Despite the presence of a single Trm10 gene in Archaea and most single-celled eukaryotes, metazoans encode up to three homologs of Trm10. Several disease states correlate with a deficiency in the human homolog TRMT10A, despite the presence of another cytoplasmic enzyme, TRMT10B. Here we investigate these phenomena and demonstrate that human TRMT10A (hTRMT10A) and human TRMT10B (hTRMT10B) are not biochemically redundant. In vitro activity assays with purified hTRMT10A and hTRMT10B reveal a robust activity for hTRMT10B as a tRNA(AsP)-specific m(1)A(9) methyltransferase and suggest that it is the relevant enzyme responsible for this newly discovered m(1)A(9) modification in humans. Moreover, a comparison of the two cytosolic enzymes with multiple tRNA substrates exposes the enzymes' distinct substrate specificities, and suggests that hTRMT10B exhibits a restricted selectivity hitherto unseen in the Trm10 enzyme family. Single-turnover kinetics and tRNA binding assays highlight further differences between the two enzymes and eliminate overall tRNA affinity as a primary determinant of substrate specificity for either enzyme. These results increase our understanding of the important biology of human tRNA modification systems, which can aid in understanding the molecular basis for diseases in which their aberrant function is increasingly implicated.
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