TRMT12 Proteins

Protein Information

TYW2, also known as TRM12, is an enzyme that participates in the wybutosine-tRNA (Phe) biosynthesis pathway. Wybutosine (yW) is a hypermodified guanosine at the 3-prime position adjacent to the anticodon of phenylalanine tRNA that stabilizes codon-anticodon interactions during decoding on the ribosome. TYW2 is involved in a multistep enzymatic reaction that stabilizes codon-anticodon base-pairing during the ribosomal decoding process, thereby ensuring correct translation. TYW2 was found to be amplified in 7 of 8 breast cancers cell lines analyzed, and qPCR analysis of 30 breast tumors showed overexpression of TYW2 mRNA of over 2-fold in 26, suggesting that TYW2 may play a role in breast cancer.

Synonyms

4632406N01Rik; AI449275; alpha-amino-alpha-carboxypropyl transferase TYW2; homolog of yeast tRNA methyltransferase; TRM12; Trmt12; tRNA methyltranferase 12; tRNA methyltranferase 12 homolog; tRNA methyltransferase 12; tRNA methyltransferase 12 homolog; tRNA wybutosine-synthesizing protein 2 homolog; tRNA(Phe) (4-demethylwyosine(37)-C(7)) aminocarboxypropyltransferase; tRNA-yW synthesizing protein 2; tRNA-yW-synthesizing protein 2; TYW2