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Cooperative methylation of human tRNA3Lys at positions A58 and U54 drives the early and late steps of HIV-1 replication.
Nucleic acids research - 18 Nov 2021
Fukuda Hiroyuki, Chujo Takeshi, Wei Fan-Yan, Shi Sheng-Lan, Hirayama Mayumi, Kaitsuka Taku, Yamamoto Takahiro, Oshiumi Hiroyuki, Tomizawa Kazuhito
Abstract excerpt
Retroviral infection requires reverse transcription, and the reverse transcriptase (RT) uses cellular tRNA as its primer. In humans, the TRMT6-TRMT61A methyltransferase complex incorporates N1-methyladenosine modification at tRNA position 58 (m1A58); however, the role of m1A58 as an RT-stop site during retroviral infection has remained questionable. Here, we constructed TRMT6 mutant cells to determine the roles...
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