a Scheme of tRNA m1A-seq. b Comparison of misincorporation signals caused by m1A58 in tRNAs between liver CSC and non-CSC cells. Red dots represent tRNAs with elevated m1A58 methylation levels in CSCs. c Comparison of translation efficiency (TE) between liver CSC and non-CSC cells. Red dots represent genes with increased TE, while black dots represent genes with decreased TE in liver CSCs. d Frequency of codons corresponding to m1A58 elevated tRNAs was higher in the genes with increased translation efficiency (TE) in CSCs. e Unbiased pathway analysis of TE upregulated genes in liver CSCs compared with non-CSCs. f Western blotting analysis of PPARδ expression in indicated CSCs. n = 4 biologically independent samples. g Effect of elevated m1A58 methylation levels in tRNAAla(AGC) and tRNAGlu(CTC) on protein synthesis. Reporter vectors were transfected into Mock overexpressed PLC/PRF/5 cells, WT-TRMT6/TRMT61A or Mut-TRMT6/TRMT61A overexpressed PLC/PRF/5 cells, respectively. Control vectors were also transfected into these three cell lines to normalize translation differences among these cell lines. The expression level of two synonymous codon control Ala-(GCG) and Glu-(GAA) remained unchanged upon TRMT6/TRMT61A expression level manipulation. n = 6 biologically independent samples. Exact P values from left to right: 0.00021, 0.27, 0.45, 0.00086, 0.21, 0.15. h Representative immunohistochemistry images of PPARδ (brown) in our cohort of 191 HCC samples. n = 3 independent samples. Scores 0 represents PPARδ staining that was considered negative, Scores 1 represents PPARδ staining that was considered negative, whereas scores 2 and 3 represent PPARδ staining that was considered positive. Grade I (n = 56), Grade II (n = 87), Grade III (n = 48). Scale bar, 100 μm. i Kaplan–Meier plots of overall survival for PPARδ in TMA cohort. Median expression value was used as a cut-off. P values for Kaplan–Meier curves were determined using a two-sided log-rank test. ***P < 0.001, and NS not significant (P > 0.05) by two-tailed Student’s t-test.