Mechanisms of Protein Biogenesis, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, 82152 Martinsried, Germany.
Mechanisms of Protein Biogenesis, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, 82152 Martinsried, Germany; Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, 85748 Garching, Germany.
Mol Cell. 2021 Apr 15;81(8):1802-1815.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2021.01.028. Epub 2021 Feb 12.
Measurements of cellular tRNA abundance are hampered by pervasive blocks to cDNA synthesis at modified nucleosides and the extensive similarity among tRNA genes. We overcome these limitations with modification-induced misincorporation tRNA sequencing (mim-tRNAseq), which combines a workflow for full-length cDNA library construction from endogenously modified tRNA with a comprehensive and user-friendly computational analysis toolkit. Our method accurately captures tRNA abundance and modification status in yeast, fly, and human cells and is applicable to any organism with a known genome. We applied mim-tRNAseq to discover a dramatic heterogeneity of tRNA isodecoder pools among diverse human cell lines and a surprising interdependence of modifications at distinct sites within the same tRNA transcript.
细胞 tRNA 丰度的测量受到修饰核苷普遍存在的 cDNA 合成障碍和 tRNA 基因之间广泛相似性的阻碍。我们通过修饰诱导的错配 tRNA 测序(mim-tRNAseq)克服了这些限制,该方法将从内源性修饰 tRNA 构建全长 cDNA 文库的工作流程与全面且用户友好的计算分析工具包相结合。我们的方法可以准确地捕获酵母、苍蝇和人类细胞中的 tRNA 丰度和修饰状态,并且适用于任何具有已知基因组的生物体。我们应用 mim-tRNAseq 来发现不同人类细胞系中 tRNA 同功密码子库的巨大异质性,以及同一 tRNA 转录本中不同位点的修饰之间令人惊讶的相互依赖性。