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Coding sequence targeting by MicC RNA reveals bacterial mRNA silencing downstream of translational initiation


ABSTRACT: It is well established that small noncoding RNAs (sRNAs) of bacteria recognize the 5â?? regions of target mRNAs, generally at the ribosome binding site. Until now, the translated coding sequence (CDS) of mRNA appeared to be refractory to sRNA interactions. We have discovered that Salmonella MicC RNA silences ompD mRNA by targeting the CDS, at codons 23-26. Analyses of MicC-ompD RNA complexes in vitro, and of chimeric sRNAs and ompD reporter fusions in vivo, show that interactions are confined to the CDS, and that a â?¤12 bp RNA duplex involving the conserved 5â?? end of MicC is essential and sufficient for target repression. MicC cannot act as a translational repressor at this downstream position being unable to inhibit 30S or 70S ribosome activity on the ompD mRNA. Instead, MicC accelerates RNase E-dependent ompD mRNA decay. The degradosome contributes to target destabilization, and facilitates the efficient degradation of processed ompD mRNA. Our data show that bacterial gene silencing by sRNAs can take place downstream of the translational initiation site by triggering irreversible mRNA decay. This ability of sRNAs allows targets in the CDS to be silenced without interference from the strong RNA helicase activity of elongating ribosomes. To determine the targets of the small regulatory RNA MicC in S. Typhimurium, we looked at the effect of a short pulse of MicC over-expression on the Salmonella transcriptome. To achieve over-expression, the micC gene was cloned in the pBAD plasmid and induced with 0.2% L-arabinose for 10 min. We then extracted the total RNA for transcriptional profiling. A strain carrying the pBAD plasmid w/o insert was used as negative control. 3 biological replicates were performed. This sRNA target identification strategy has been described in Papenfort et al; Molecular Microbiology (2006) 62(6), 1674â??1688.

ORGANISM(S): Salmonella enterica

SUBMITTER: Verena Pfeiffer 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-16540 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Coding sequence targeting by MicC RNA reveals bacterial mRNA silencing downstream of translational initiation.

Pfeiffer Verena V   Papenfort Kai K   Lucchini Sacha S   Hinton Jay C D JC   Vogel Jörg J  

Nature structural & molecular biology 20090720 8


Bacterial small noncoding RNAs (sRNAs) generally recognize target mRNAs in the 5' region to prevent 30S ribosomes from initiating translation. It was thought that the mRNA coding sequence (CDS) was refractory to sRNA-mediated repression, because elongating 70S ribosomes have an efficient RNA helicase activity that prevents stable target pairing. We report that the Hfq-associated MicC sRNA silences Salmonella typhimurium ompD mRNA via a <or=12-bp RNA duplex within the CDS (codons 23-26) that is e  ...[more]

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