期刊
GENES
卷 13, 期 12, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/genes13122319
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protein synthesis; mitochondrial biology; aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases; neurological disease; tRNA biology
Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases are essential enzymes involved in protein synthesis and mutations in these genes can cause a range of clinical phenotypes. Although there is significant clinical heterogeneity, the underlying mechanisms are not fully understood.
Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (ARSs) are highly conserved essential enzymes that charge tRNA with cognate amino acids-the first step of protein synthesis. Of the 37 nuclear-encoded human ARS genes, 17 encode enzymes are exclusively targeted to the mitochondria (mt-ARSs). Mutations in nuclear mt-ARS genes are associated with rare, recessive human diseases with a broad range of clinical phenotypes. While the hypothesized disease mechanism is a loss-of-function effect, there is significant clinical heterogeneity among patients that have mutations in different mt-ARS genes and also among patients that have mutations in the same mt-ARS gene. This observation suggests that additional factors are involved in disease etiology. In this review, we present our current understanding of diseases caused by mutations in the genes encoding mt-ARSs and propose explanations for the observed clinical heterogeneity.
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