Glenn Björk

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Professor emeritus at Department of Molecular Biology Section: Group Glenn Björk

6K och 6L, Sjukhusområdet Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

Publications Publications

An unmodified wobble uridine in tRNAs specific for Glutamine, Lysine, and Glutamic acid from Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium results in nonviability-Due to increased missense errors?

PLOS ONE, Vol. 12, (4)

Nilsson, Kristina; Jäger, Gunilla; Björk, Glenn R.

Transfer RNA Bound to MnmH Protein Is Enriched with Geranylated tRNA - A Possible Intermediate in Its Selenation?

PLOS ONE, Public Library Science 2016, Vol. 11, (4)

Jäger, Gunilla; Chen, Peng; Björk, Glenn R.

Adventures with frameshift suppressor tRNAs

The lure of bacterial genetics: a tribute to John Roth, Washington, DC: ASM Press 2014 : 131-140

Björk, Glenn R

Biosynthesis and function of modified nucleosides

tRNA: structure, biosynthesis, and function, American Society for Microbiology 2014 : 165-205

Björk, Glenn R.

Transfer RNA modification: Presence, synthesis, and function

EcoSal Plus, American Society for Microbiology 2014, Vol. 6, (1) : 1-68

Björk, Glenn R.; Hagervall, Tord G.

The output of the tRNA modification pathways controlled by the Escherichia coli MnmEG and MnmC enzymes depends on the growth conditions and the tRNA species

Nucleic Acids Research, Vol. 42, (4) : 2602-2623

Moukadiri, Ismaïl; Garzón, M. -José; Björk, Glenn R.; et al.

The Phenotype of Many Independently Isolated+1 Frameshift Suppressor Mutants Supports a Pivotal Role of the P-Site in Reading Frame Maintenance

PLOS ONE, Vol. 8, (4) : e60246-

Jäger, Gunilla; Nilsson, Kristina; Björk, Glenn R.

Characterization and Structure of the Aquifex aeolicus Protein DUF752 A BACTERIAL tRNA-METHYLTRANSFERASE (MnmC2) FUNCTIONING WITHOUT THE USUALLY FUSED OXIDASE DOMAIN (MnmC1)

Journal of Biological Chemistry, Vol. 287, (52) : 43950-43960

Kitamura, Aya; Nishimoto, Madoka; Sengoku, Toru; et al.

Adventures with Frameshift Supressor tRNAs

Lure of Bacterial Genetics: a Tribute to John Roth, WASHINGTON: American society for microbiology, ASM Press 2011 : 131-140

Björk, Glenn R.

Two groups of phenylalanine biosynthetic operon leader peptides genes: a high level of apparently incidental frameshifting in decoding Escherichia coli pheL

Nucleic Acids Research, Vol. 39, (8) : 3079-3092

Gurvich, Olga L; Näsvall, S Joakim; Baranov, Pavel V; et al.

Trm112p is a 15-kDa zinc finger protein essential for the activity of two tRNA and one protein methyltransferases in yeast

Journal of Biological Chemistry, Vol. 285, (24) : 18505-18515

Mazauric, MH; Dirick, L; Purushothaman, SK; et al.

A gripping tale of ribosomal frameshifting: extragenic suppressors of frameshift mutations spotlight P-site realignment

Microbiology and molecular biology reviews, Vol. 73, (1) : 178-210

Atkins, John F; Björk, Glenn R

Metabolic control through ornithine and uracil of epithelial cell invasion by Shigella flexneri

Microbiology, Vol. 155, (Pt 8) : 2498-2508

Durand, Jérôme M B; Björk, Glenn R

Evolutionarily conserved proteins MnmE and GidA catalyze the formation of two methyluridine derivatives at tRNA wobble positions

Nucleic Acids Research, Vol. 37, (21) : 7177-7193

Moukadiri, Ismaïl; Prado, Silvia; Piera, Julio; et al.

The ribosomal grip of the peptidyl-tRNA is critical for reading frame maintenance.

Journal of Molecular Biology, Vol. 385, (2) : 350-367

Näsvall, Joakim S; Nilsson, Kristina; Björk, Glenn R

Eukaryotic wobble uridine modifications promote a functionally redundant decoding system.

Molecular and Cellular Biology, Vol. 28, (10) : 3301-3312

Johansson, Marcus J O; Esberg, Anders; Huang, Bo; et al.

A conserved modified wobble nucleoside (mcm5s2U) in lysyl-tRNA is required for viability in yeast.

RNA, Vol. 13, (8) : 1245-55

Björk, Glenn; Huang, Bo; Persson, Olof P; et al.

Diet-dependent depletion of queuosine in tRNAs in Caenorhabditis elegans does not lead to a developmental block.

J Biosci, Vol. 32, (4) : 747-54

Gaur, Rahul; Björk, Glenn; Tuck, Simon; et al.

Alterations in the two globular domains or in the connecting alpha-helix of bacterial ribosomal protein L9 induces +1 frameshifts.

J Bacteriol, Vol. 189, (19) : 7024-31

Leipuviene, Ramune; Björk, Glenn R

The Wobble hypothesis revisited: Uridine-5-oxyacetic acid is critical for reading of G-ending codons

RNA: A publication of the RNA Society, Vol. 13, (12) : 2151-2164

Näsvall, S. Joakim; Chen, Peng; Björk, Glenn R.

Amino acid residues of the Escherichia coli tRNA(m5U54)methyltransferase (TrmA) critical for stability, covalent binding of tRNA and enzymatic activity.

Nucleic Acids Res, Vol. 35, (10) : 3297-305

Urbonavicius, Jaunius; Jäger, Gunilla; Björk, Glenn R

Structural alterations of the cysteine desulfurase IscS of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium reveal substrate specificity of IscS in tRNA thiolation.

Journal of Bacteriology, Vol. 188, (8) : 3052-3062

Lundgren, Hans K; Björk, Glenn R

Further insights into the tRNA modification process controlled by proteins MnmE and GidA of Escherichia coli.

Nucleic Acids Res, Vol. 34, (20) : 5892-905

Yim, Lucía; Moukadiri, Ismaïl; Björk, Glenn; et al.

Transfer RNA modification

EcoSal - Escherichia coli and Salmonella. Cellular and Molecular Biology, ASM Press, Washington DC 2005 : -

Björk, Glenn

A "gain of function" mutation in a protein mediates production of novel modified nucleosides.

EMBO Journal, Vol. 24, (10) : 1842-1851

Chen, Peng; Crain, Pamela F; Näsvall, Joakim; et al.

A reduced level of charged tRNAArgmnm5UCU triggers the wild-type peptidyl-tRNA to frameshift.

RNA, Vol. 11, (5) : 796-807

Leipuviene, Ramune; Björk, Glenn

Effects of mutagenesis in the switch I region and conserved arginines of Escherichia coli MnmE protein, a GTPase involved in tRNA modification

Journal of Biological Chemistry, Vol. 280, (35) : 30660-30670

Martínez-Vicente, Marta; Yim, Lucía; Villarroya, Magda; et al.

Over expression of a tRNA(Leu) isoacceptor changes charging pattern of leucine tRNAs and reveals new codon reading.

J Mol Biol, Vol. 354, (1) : 16-24

Sørensen, Michael A; Elf, Johan; Bouakaz, Elli; et al.

Enzymatic conversion of cytidine to lysidine in anticodon of bacterial isoleucyl-tRNA--an alternative way of RNA editing

TIBS -Trends in Biochemical Sciences. Regular ed., Amsterdam: Int. union of biochemistry and Elsevier/North-Holland 2004, Vol. 29, (4) : 165-168

Grosjean, Henri; Björk, Glenn

Aminoacylation of the anticodon stem by a tRNA-synthetase paralog: relic of an ancient code?

TIBS -Trends in Biochemical Sciences. Regular ed., London: Elsevier 2004, Vol. 29, (10) : 519-522

Grosjean, Henri; de Crécy-Lagard, Valérie; Björk, Glenn R

The conserved Cys-X1-X2-Cys motif present in the TtcA protein is required for the thiolation of cytidine in position 32 of tRNA from Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium.

Journal of Bacteriology, Vol. 186, (3) : 750-757

Jäger, Gunilla; Leipuviene, Ramune; Pollard, Michael; et al.

Formation of thiolated nucleosides present in tRNA from Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium occurs in two principally distinct pathways.

Journal of Bacteriology, Vol. 186, (3) : 758-766

Leipuviene, Ramune; Qian, Qiang; Björk, Glenn

The modified wobble nucleoside uridine-5-oxyacetic acid in tRNAPro(cmo5UGG) promotes reading of all four proline codons in vivo.

RNA: A publication of the RNA Society, Vol. 10, (10) : 1662-1673

Näsvall, Joakim; Chen, Peng; Björk, Glenn

A cytosolic tRNA with an unmodified adenosine in the wobble position reads a codon ending with the non-complementary nucleoside cytidine

Journal of Molecular Biology, Vol. 317, (4) : 481-492

Chen, Peng; Qian, Qiang; Zhao, Shaoping; et al.

The cysteine desulfurase IscS is required for synthesis of all five thiolated nucleosides present in tRNA from Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium

Journal of Bacteriology, American Society for Microbiology 2002, Vol. 184, (24) : 6830-6835

Nilsson, Kristina; Lundgren, Hans K.; Hagervall, Tord G.; et al.

A primordial tRNA modification required for the evolution of life?

EMBO Journal, Vol. 20, (1-2) : 231-239

Björk, Glenn R; Jacobsson, Kerstin; Nilsson, Kristina; et al.

Appendix 6: modified nucleosides at positions 34 and 37 of tRNAs and their predicted coding capacities

Modification and editing of RNA, Washington DC: American Society for Microbiology 1998 : 577-581

Björk, Glenn R.

Links between tRNA modification and metabolism and modified nucleosides as tumor markers

Modification and editing of RNA, Washington DC: American Society for Microbiology 1998 : 471-491

Björk, Glenn R.; Rasmuson, Torgny

Appendix 4: genetic locations and database accession numbers of RNA-modifying and-editing enzymes

Modification and editing of RNA, Washington DC: American Society for Microbiology 1998 : 561-567

Leung, Hon-Chiu Eastwood; Hagervall, Tord G.; Björk, Glenn R.; et al.

Prevention of translational frameshifting by the modified nucleoside 1-methylguanosine

Science, Vol. 244, (4907) : 986-989

Björk, Glenn R; Wikström, P M; Byström, Anders S

Differentially expressed trmD ribosomal protein operon of Escherichia coli is transcribed as a single polycistronic mRNA species

Journal of Molecular Biology, Academic Press 1989, Vol. 208, (4) : 575-586

Byström, Anders S; von Gabain, A; Björk, Glenn R

Non-autogenous control of ribosomal protein synthesis from the trmD operon in Escherichia coli

Journal of Molecular Biology, Vol. 203, (1) : 141-152

Wikström, P M; Byström, Anders S; Björk, Glenn R

Modified nucleosides in RNA-their formation and function

Processing of RNA, CRC Press 1984 : 291-330

Björk, Glenn R

The nucleotide sequence of an Escherichia coli operon containing genes for the tRNA(m1G)methyltransferase, the ribosomal proteins S16 and L19 and a 21-K polypeptide

EMBO Journal, Oxford University Press 1983, Vol. 2, (6) : 899-905

Byström, Anders S; Hjalmarsson, Karin J; Wikström, P Mikael; et al.

Purification and characterization of transfer RNA (guanine-1)methyltransferase from Escherichia coli

Journal of Biological Chemistry, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 1983, Vol. 258, (2) : 1343-1351

Hjalmarsson, Karin J.; Byström, Anders S; Björk, Glenn R

Chromosomal location and cloning of the gene (trmD) responsible for the synthesis of tRNA (m1G) methyltransferase in Escherichia coli K-12.

Molecular General Genetics, Vol. 188, (3) : 440-446

Byström, Anders S; Björk, Glenn R

The structural gene (trmD) for the tRNA(m1G)methyltransferase is part of a four polypeptide operon in Escherichia coli K-12

Molecular General Genetics, Springer-Verlag New York 1982, Vol. 188, (3) : 447-454

Byström, Anders S; Björk, Glenn R

Ribosome slippage induced by mutations in the ribosomal protein L9

Leipuviene, Ramune; Björk, Glenn R

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