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SUBMITTER: Pintard L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC125368 | biostudies-literature | 2002 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pintard Lionel L Lecointe François F Bujnicki Janusz M JM Bonnerot Claire C Grosjean Henri H Lapeyre Bruno B
The EMBO journal 20020401 7
The genome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae encodes three close homologues of the Escherichia coli 2'-O-rRNA methyltransferase FtsJ/RrmJ, designated Trm7p, Spb1p and Mrm2p. We present evidence that Trm7p methylates the 2'-O-ribose of nucleotides at positions 32 and 34 of the tRNA anticodon loop, both in vivo and in vitro. In a trm7Delta strain, which is viable but grows slowly, translation is impaired, thus indicating that these tRNA modifications could be important for translation efficiency. We dis ...[more]