PMID- 33634165 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20210227 IS - 2296-889X (Print) IS - 2296-889X (Electronic) IS - 2296-889X (Linking) VI - 7 DP - 2020 TI - Silencing of the tRNA Modification Enzyme Cdkal1 Effects Functional Insulin Synthesis in NIT-1 Cells: tRNA(Lys3) Lacking ms(2)- (ms(2)t(6)A(37)) is Unable to Establish Sufficient Anticodon:Codon Interactions to Decode the Wobble Codon AAG. PG - 584228 LID - 10.3389/fmolb.2020.584228 [doi] LID - 584228 AB - Human Genome Wide Association Studies found a significant risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) in single nucleotide polymorphisms in the cdkal1 gene. The cdkal1 gene is remote from the insulin gene and with the surprising function of a specific tRNA modification. Population studies and case control studies acquired evidences of the connection between Cdkal1 protein and insulin production over the years. To obtain biochemical proofs directly linking potential SNPs to their roles in insulin production and availability is challenging, but the development of Cdkal1 knock out mice and knock out cell lines made it possible to extend our knowledge towards therapeutic field of diabetic research. Supporting the evidences, here we show that knock down of the cdkal1 gene using small interfering and short hairpin RNA in the NIT-1 cell line, a beta-cell line inducible for insulin resulted in reduced levels of cdkal1 and mature insulin mRNAs, increased the level of precursor insulin mRNA, decreased Cdkal1 and insulin proteins, and diminished modification of tRNA(Lys3) from t(6)A(37) to ms(2)t(6)A(37), the specified function of Cdkal1. tRNA(Lys3) lacking ms(2)- is incapable of establishing sufficient hydrogen bonding energy and hydrophobic stabilization to decode the wobble codon AAG. CI - Copyright (c) 2021 Narendran, Vangaveti, Ranganathan, Eruysal, Craft, Alrifai, Chua, Sarachan, Litwa, Ramachandran and Agris. FAU - Narendran, Amithi AU - Narendran A AD - The RNA Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, University of Albany, Albany, NY, United States. FAU - Vangaveti, Sweta AU - Vangaveti S AD - Program in Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States. FAU - Ranganathan, Srivathsan V AU - Ranganathan SV AD - Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Portland, OR, United States. FAU - Eruysal, Emily AU - Eruysal E AD - The RNA Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, University of Albany, Albany, NY, United States. FAU - Craft, Miranda AU - Craft M AD - The RNA Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, University of Albany, Albany, NY, United States. FAU - Alrifai, Omar AU - Alrifai O AD - The RNA Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, University of Albany, Albany, NY, United States. FAU - Chua, Fu Yee AU - Chua FY AD - The RNA Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, University of Albany, Albany, NY, United States. FAU - Sarachan, Kathryn AU - Sarachan K AD - The RNA Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, University of Albany, Albany, NY, United States. FAU - Litwa, Breann AU - Litwa B AD - The RNA Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, University of Albany, Albany, NY, United States. FAU - Ramachandran, Sheetal AU - Ramachandran S AD - Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States. FAU - Agris, Paul F AU - Agris PF AD - The RNA Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, University of Albany, Albany, NY, United States. AD - Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20210209 PL - Switzerland TA - Front Mol Biosci JT - Frontiers in molecular biosciences JID - 101653173 PMC - PMC7900539 OTO - NOTNLM OT - CDKAL1 OT - Cdkal1 protein OT - Type 2 diabetes OT - Wobble decoding on the ribosome OT - insulin OT - tRNA modification COIS- The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. EDAT- 2021/02/27 06:00 MHDA- 2021/02/27 06:01 PMCR- 2020/01/01 CRDT- 2021/02/26 06:04 PHST- 2020/07/16 00:00 [received] PHST- 2020/12/31 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2021/02/26 06:04 [entrez] PHST- 2021/02/27 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/02/27 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2020/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 584228 [pii] AID - 10.3389/fmolb.2020.584228 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Front Mol Biosci. 2021 Feb 9;7:584228. doi: 10.3389/fmolb.2020.584228. eCollection 2020.