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CELL
Volume 154, Issue 2, Pages 416-429Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2013.06.043
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- UTSW Endowed Scholars Program
- Welch Foundation [I-1797]
- NIGMS [R01GM094314]
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund
- David and Lucile Packard Foundation
- Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
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Protein translation is an energetically demanding process that must be regulated in response to changes in nutrient availability. Herein, we report that intracellular methionine and cysteine availability directly controls the thiolation status of wobble-uridine (U-34) nucleotides present on lysine, glutamine, or glutamate tRNAs to regulate cellular translational capacity and metabolic homeostasis. tRNA thiolation is important for growth under nutritionally challenging environments and required for efficient translation of genes enriched in lysine, glutamine, and glutamate codons, which are enriched in proteins important for translation and growth-specific processes. tRNA thiolation is downregulated during sulfur starvation in order to decrease sulfur consumption and growth, and its absence leads to a compensatory increase in enzymes involved in methionine, cysteine, and lysine biosynthesis. Thus, tRNA thiolation enables cells to modulate translational capacity according to the availability of sulfur amino acids, establishing a functional significance for this conserved tRNA nucleotide modification in cell growth control.
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