TRDMT1

TRNA aspartic acid methyltransferase 1
Available structures PDB Ortholog search: PDBe, RCSB List of PDB id codes 1G55​
Identifiers
Symbols	TRDMT1 ; DMNT2; DNMT2; MHSAIIP; PUMET; RNMT1
External IDs	OMIM: 602478 MGI: 1274787 HomoloGene: 3249 GeneCards: TRDMT1 Gene
EC number	2.1.1.204
Gene ontology Molecular function • DNA binding • RNA binding • DNA (cytosine-5-)-methyltransferase activity • tRNA methyltransferase activity Cellular component • nucleus • cytoplasm Biological process • response to amphetamine • tRNA methylation • C-5 methylation of cytosine Sources: Amigo / QuickGO
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	1787	13434
Ensembl	ENSG00000107614	ENSMUSG00000026723
UniProt	O14717	O55055
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_004412	NM_010067
RefSeq (protein)	NP_004403	NP_034197
Location (UCSC)	Chr 10: 17.14 – 17.2 Mb	Chr 2: 13.51 – 13.54 Mb
PubMed search

tRNA (cytosine-5-)-methyltransferase is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the TRDMT1 gene.^[1][2][3][4]

CpG methylation is an epigenetic modification that is important for embryonic development, imprinting, and X-chromosome inactivation. Studies in mice have demonstrated that DNA methylation is required for mammalian development. This gene encodes a protein with similarity to DNA methyltransferases, but this protein does not display methyltransferase activity. The protein strongly binds DNA, suggesting that it may mark specific sequences in the genome. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants encoding different isoforms.^[4]

It has been shown that human DNMT2 does not methylate DNA but instead methylates cytosine 38 in the anticodon loop of aspartic acid transfer RNA (tRNA(Asp)).^[5]

References

1. Yoder JA, Bestor TH (Mar 1998). "A candidate mammalian DNA methyltransferase related to pmt1p of fission yeast". Hum Mol Genet 7 (2): 279–84. doi:10.1093/hmg/7.2.279. PMID 9425235.
2. Vilain A, Apiou F, Dutrillaux B, Malfoy B (Nov 1998). "Assignment of candidate DNA methyltransferase gene (DNMT2) to human chromosome band 10p15.1 by in situ hybridization". Cytogenet Cell Genet 82 (1–2): 120. doi:10.1159/000015083. PMID 9763678.
3. Goll MG, Kirpekar F, Maggert KA, Yoder JA, Hsieh CL, Zhang X, Golic KG, Jacobsen SE, Bestor TH (Jan 2006). "Methylation of tRNAAsp by the DNA methyltransferase homolog Dnmt2". Science 311 (5759): 395–8. doi:10.1126/science.1120976. PMID 16424344.
4. "Entrez Gene: TRDMT1 tRNA aspartic acid methyltransferase 1".
5. Goll MG, Kirpekar F, Maggert KA, et al. (2006). "Methylation of tRNAAsp by the DNA methyltransferase homolog Dnmt2". Science 311 (5759): 395–8. doi:10.1126/science.1120976. PMID 16424344.

Further reading

• Okano M, Xie S, Li E (1998). "Dnmt2 is not required for de novo and maintenance methylation of viral DNA in embryonic stem cells". Nucleic Acids Res. 26 (11): 2536–40. doi:10.1093/nar/26.11.2536. PMC 147598. PMID 9592134.
• Van den Wyngaert I, Sprengel J, Kass SU, Luyten WH (1998). "Cloning and analysis of a novel human putative DNA methyltransferase". FEBS Lett. 426 (2): 283–9. doi:10.1016/S0014-5793(98)00362-7. PMID 9599025.
• Dong A, Yoder JA, Zhang X, et al. (2001). "Structure of human DNMT2, an enigmatic DNA methyltransferase homolog that displays denaturant-resistant binding to DNA". Nucleic Acids Res. 29 (2): 439–48. doi:10.1093/nar/29.2.439. PMC 29660. PMID 11139614.
• Franchina M, Hooper J, Kay PH (2001). "Five novel alternatively spliced transcripts of DNA (cytosine-5) methyltransferase 2 in human peripheral blood leukocytes". Int. J. Biochem. Cell Biol. 33 (11): 1104–15. doi:10.1016/S1357-2725(01)00074-7. PMID 11551826.
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
• Hermann A, Schmitt S, Jeltsch A (2003). "The human Dnmt2 has residual DNA-(cytosine-C5) methyltransferase activity". J. Biol. Chem. 278 (34): 31717–21. doi:10.1074/jbc.M305448200. PMID 12794065.
• Deloukas P, Earthrowl ME, Grafham DV, et al. (2004). "The DNA sequence and comparative analysis of human chromosome 10". Nature 429 (6990): 375–81. doi:10.1038/nature02462. PMID 15164054.
• Xiong Y, Dowdy SC, Xue A, et al. (2005). "Opposite alterations of DNA methyltransferase gene expression in endometrioid and serous endometrial cancers". Gynecol. Oncol. 96 (3): 601–9. doi:10.1016/j.ygyno.2004.11.047. PMID 15721400.
• Stelzl U, Worm U, Lalowski M, et al. (2005). "A human protein-protein interaction network: a resource for annotating the proteome". Cell 122 (6): 957–68. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2005.08.029. PMID 16169070.
• Pang ST, Weng WH, Flores-Morales A, et al. (2006). "Cytogenetic and expression profiles associated with transformation to androgen-resistant prostate cancer". Prostate 66 (2): 157–72. doi:10.1002/pros.20328. PMID 16173030.