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TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES
Volume 43, Issue 7, Pages 517-532Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2018.04.002
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- National Institutes of Health [GM063584]
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES [R01GM063584] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Since their discovery in the 1960s, the family of Fe(II)/2-oxoglutarate-dependent oxygenases has undergone a tremendous expansion to include enzymes catalyzing a vast diversity of biologically important reactions. Recent examples highlight roles in controlling chromatin modification, transcription, mRNA demethylation, and mRNA splicing. Others generate modifications in tRNA, translation factors, ribosomes, and other proteins. Thus, oxygenases affect all components of molecular biology's central dogma, in which information flows from DNA to RNA to proteins. These enzymes also function in biosynthesis and catabolism of cellular metabolites, including antibiotics and signaling molecules. Due to their critical importance, ongoing efforts have targeted family members for the development of specific therapeutics. This review provides a general overview of recently characterized oxygenase reactions and their key biological roles.
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