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NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
卷 24, 期 9, 页码 778-+出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.3449
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- Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture of Japan (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) [26113003, 26220205, 24370093, 26116003]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26220205, 26116003, 26113003] Funding Source: KAKEN
The genetic code is not frozen but still evolving, which can result in the acquisition of 'dialectal' codons that deviate from the universal genetic code. RNA modifications in the anticodon region of tRNAs play a critical role in establishing such non-universal genetic codes. In echinoderm mitochondria, the AAA codon specifies asparagine instead of lysine. By analyzing mitochondrial (mt-) tRNA(Lys) isolated from the sea urchin (Mesocentrotus nudus), we discovered a novel modified nucleoside, hydroxy-N-6-threonylcarbamoyladenosine (ht(6)A), 3' adjacent to the anticodon (position 37). Biochemical analysis revealed that ht(6)A37 has the ability to prevent mt-tRNA(Lys) from misreading AAA as lysine, thereby indicating that hydroxylation of N-6-threonylcarbamoyladenosine (t(6)A) contributes to the establishment of the non-universal genetic code in echinoderm mitochondria.
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