Ferré-D'Amaré Adrian R
Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109-1024, USA.
Curr Opin Struct Biol. 2003 Feb;13(1):49-55. doi: 10.1016/s0959-440x(02)00002-7.
A bewildering number of post-transcriptional modifications are introduced into cellular RNAs by enzymes that are often conserved among archaea, bacteria and eukaryotes. The modifications range from those with well-understood functions, such as tRNA aminoacylation, to widespread but more mysterious ones, such as pseudouridylation. Recent structure determinations have included two types of RNA nucleobase modifying enzyme: pseudouridine synthases and tRNA guanine transglycosylases.
细胞RNA会被一些酶引入数量众多、令人眼花缭乱的转录后修饰,这些酶在古细菌、细菌和真核生物中通常是保守的。这些修饰的范围从功能已被充分理解的修饰(如tRNA氨基酰化)到广泛存在但更为神秘的修饰(如假尿苷化)。最近确定的结构包括两种RNA核碱基修饰酶:假尿苷合酶和tRNA鸟嘌呤转糖基酶。