Table of Contents

Historical Perspective on RNA-Nucleoside Modifications; RNA-Modifying and RNA-Editing Enzymes; Detection and Structure Analysis of Modified Nucleosides in RNA by Mass Spectrometry; Incorporation of Modified Nucleosides or Nucleotides in RNA (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies); Biophysical and Conformational Properties of Modified Nucleosides in RNA; Effects of Pseudouridylation on tRNA Hydration and Dynamics; Modulation Role of Modified Nucleotides in Anticodon-Anticodon Interaction; Mechanisms of RNA-Modifying and Editing Enzymes; Structural Basis of Base Exchange by tRNA-Guanine Transglycosylases; Biosynthesis and Functions of Modified Neuclosides in Eurkaryotic mRNA; Posttranscriptional Modifications in the U Small Nuclear RNAs; The Pseudouridine Residues of rRNA; Small Nucleolar RNAs Guide the Ribose Methylations of Eukaryotic rRNAs; Functional Aspects of the Three Modified Nucleotides in Yeast Mitochondrial Large-Subunit rRNA; Regulatory Aspects of rRNA Modifications and Pre-rRNA Processing; Editing by tRNA; RNA Editing by Base Conversion in Plant Organellar RNAs; Apolipoprotein B mRNA Editing; Adenosine-to-Inosine Conversion in mRNA; Nucleoside Deaminases for Cytidine and Adenosine; Mitochondrial mRNA Editing in Kinetoplastid Protozoa; RNA Editing in Physarum Mitochondria; Cotranscriptional Paramyxovirus mRNA Editing; Intracellular Locations of RNA-Modifying Enzymes; Genetics and Regulation of Base Modification in the tRNA and rRNA of Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes; Links Between tRNA Modification and Metabolism and Modified Nucleosides as Tumor Markers; Modified Nucleosides in Translation; Importance of Modified Nucleotides in Replication of Retroviruses, Plant Pararetroviruses and Retrotransposons; Modified Nucleotides Always Were