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High-fidelity and differential nonsense suppression in live cells and a frontotemporal dementia allele with human transfer RNAs

ABSTRACT: Nonsense mutations generate premature termination codons (PTCs) that are responsible for 11% of genetic disease alleles. The arginine (Arg, CGA) to stop (UGA) mutation is the most common PTC. Humans encode >600 tRNA genes with many identical and similar copies. We developed a dual fluorescent reporter to quantify PTC readthrough in live cells and found single nucleotide mutations of human tRNAArg gene variants enabled differential nonsense suppression that depended on the tRNA sequence and the cell type. We investigated G36A variants of all six human tRNAArgUCG isodecoders, and only the TCG-6-1 tRNA, where G36A occurs in 0.01% of human genomes, was unable to translate nonsense codons. With tRNA sequencing, we showed that a suppressor tRNA derived from the TCG-3-1 gene was expressed 2.1-fold higher and generated 1.8-fold more nonsense suppression than a tRNA derived from the TCG-4-1 gene. In a neuroblastoma model of frontotemporal dementia (FTD), we observed >70% readthrough of progranulin R493X with a suppressor tRNA that represented 5% of the total tRNAArg pool. The tRNAs outperformed aminoglycoside induced nonsense suppression in efficacy, tolerability to the cells, and translation fidelity according to mass spectrometry. Our studies show that human nonsense suppressor tRNAs can correct genetic defects that cause disease.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE300389 | GEO | 2025/07/28

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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