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MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 35, Issue 12, Pages 2052-2058Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.00131-15
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tRNAs perform an essential role in translating the genetic code. They are long-lived RNAs that are generated via numerous post-transcriptional steps. Eukaryotic cells have evolved numerous layers of quality control mechanisms to ensure that the tRNAs are appropriately structured, processed, and modified. We describe the known tRNA quality control processes that check tRNAs and correct or destroy aberrant tRNAs. These mechanisms employ two types of exonucleases, CCA end addition, tRNA nuclear aminoacylation, and tRNA subcellular traffic. We arrange these processes in order of the steps that occur from generation of precursor tRNAs by RNA polymerase (Pol) III transcription to end maturation and modification in the nucleus to splicing and additional modifications in the cytoplasm. Finally, we discuss the tRNA retrograde pathway, which allows tRNA reimport into the nucleus for degradation or repair.
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