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. 2009 Dec 8;38(5):1415–1430. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkp1117

Table 1.

Known and some putative m5C-MTRs and their RNA substrates

Enzyme family Enzyme name Other names Organism Life domain Accession Identification type RNA substrate Modified position(s) X-ray structure Reference
RsmB family
RsmB/Nol1 RsmB Fmu/Fmv Escherichia coli B AP_004502 Biochemical 16S rRNA 967 1SQF, 1SQG (68,70)
RsmB/Nol1 P120 NSUN1 Homo sapiens E P46087 NO Unknown NA (92)
RsmB/Nol1 Nop2 Saccharomyces cerevisiae E YNL061W NO Unknown NA (87)
RsmF/YebU family
YebU Haloferax volcanii A HVO_1594 Bioinformatics tRNA 39/40/48/49 (75)
YebU Pyrococcus abyssi A PAB1947 Biochemical tRNA Multiple (mostly 49) (79)
YebU aTrm4 Pyrococcus horikoshi A PH1374 Bioinformatics Unknown NA 1IXK (78)
YebU RsmF YebU Escherichia coli B P76273 Biochemical 16S rRNA 1407 2FRX (71,72)
YebU hTrm4 NSUN2/Misu Homo sapiens E NM_017755 Biochemical pre-tRNALeu 34 (86)
YebU FLJ22609 NSUN3 Homo sapiens E Q9H649 NO Unknown NA (65)
YebU MGC22920 NSUN4 Homo sapiens E Q96CB9 NO Unknown NA (65)
YebU Trm4 Ncl1 Saccharomyces cerevisiae E YBL024W Biochemical tRNA and pre-tRNA 48/49 tRNA 34/40 pre-tRNA (80,81)
Dnmt2 family
DNMT2 Dnmt2 Drosophila melanogaster E Q9U6H7 Biochemical tRNA 38 (102,107)
Dnmt2 trdmt1 Drosophila rerio E Q588C1 Biochemical tRNA 38? (122)
DNMT2 Dnmt2 Homo sapiens E O14717 Biochemical tRNA 38 1G55 (100,102)
DNMT2 Dnmt2 Mus musculus E O55055 Bioinformatics
DNMT3 pmt1 pmt1 Saccharomyces pombe E P40999 Bioinformatics
RlmI family
COG1092 RlmI YccW Escherichia coli B P75876 Biochemical 23S rRNA 1962 3C0K (73,74)
Ynl022 family
Ynl022c WBSCR20A NSUN5A Homo sapiens E Q96P11 NO Unknown NA 2B9E
Ynl022c WBSCR20B NSUN5B Homo sapiens E Q3KNT7 NO Unknown NA
Ynl022c WBSCR20C NSUN5C Homo sapiens E Q63ZY6 NO Unknown NA
Ynl022c WBSCR22 Homo sapiens E O43709 NO Unknown NA
Ynl022c NSUN7 Homo sapiens E Q8NE18 NO Unknown NA
Ynl022c Ynl022c Saccharomyces cerevisiae E YNL022C NO Unknown NA
NSUN6 family
NSUN6 NSUN6 Homo sapiens E Q8TEA1 NO Unknown NA

Abbreviations: A: archaea; B: bacteria; E eukaryota; NA not analyzed.