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Behrens, A., Rodschinka, G., and Nedialkova, D.D.
(IMPRS-LS students in bold)
Mol Cell, 2021, online ahead of print.
doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2021.01.028

High-resolution quantitative profiling of tRNA abundance and modification status in eukaryotes by mim-tRNAseq

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.

 

 

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