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An ancestral tRNA maturation enzyme repurposed for cytoplasmic non-coding RNA processing
Athanasios‐Nasir Shaukat, Mahmoud F. Dondeti, Alexandros Maniatis…·Constantinos Stathopoulos
The paper identifies vtRNAs as direct substrates of ELAC1 and shows ELAC1 has broader RNA substrate specificity compared to ELAC2.
DOI 10.64898/2026.10.07.757187