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Diverse cell stresses induce unique patterns of tRNA up- and down-regulation: tRNA-seq for quantifying changes in tRNA copy number

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Pang, Yan Ling Joy; Abo, Ryan; Levine, Stuart S.; Dedon, Peter C
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Emerging evidence points to roles for tRNA modifications and tRNA abundance in cellular stress responses. While isolated instances of stress-induced tRNA degradation have been reported, we sought to assess the effects of stress on tRNA levels at a systems level. To this end, we developed a next-generation sequencing method that exploits the paucity of ribonucleoside modifications at the 3′-end of tRNAs to quantify changes in all cellular tRNA molecules. Application of this tRNA-seq method to Saccharomyces cerevisiae identified all 76 expressed unique tRNA species out of 295 coded in the yeast genome, including all isoacceptor variants, with highly precise relative (fold-change) quantification of tRNAs. In studies of stress-induced changes in tRNA levels, we found that oxidation (H[subscript 2]O[subscript 2]) and alkylation (methylmethane sulfonate, MMS) stresses induced nearly identical patterns of up- and down-regulation for 58 tRNAs. However, 18 tRNAs showed opposing changes for the stresses, which parallels our observation of signature reprogramming of tRNA modifications caused by H[subscript 2]O[subscript 2] and MMS. Further, stress-induced degradation was limited to only a small proportion of a few tRNA species. With tRNA-seq applicable to any organism, these results suggest that translational control of stress response involves a contribution from tRNA abundance.
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2014-10
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/92530
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
Journal
Nucleic Acids Research
Publisher
Oxford University Press
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Pang, Yan Ling Joy, Ryan Abo, Stuart S. Levine, and Peter C. Dedon. “Diverse Cell Stresses Induce Unique Patterns of tRNA up- and down-Regulation: tRNA-Seq for Quantifying Changes in tRNA Copy Number.” Nucleic Acids Research 42, no. 22 (October 27, 2014): e170–e170.
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0305-1048
1362-4962

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