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A bacterial mRNA leader that employs different mechanisms to sense disparate intracellular signals.

ABSTRACT: Bacterial mRNAs often contain leader sequences that respond to specific metabolites or ions by altering expression of the associated downstream protein-coding sequences. Here we report that the leader RNA of the Mg(2+) transporter gene mgtA of Salmonella enterica, which was previously known to function as a Mg(2+)-sensing riboswitch, harbors an 18 codon proline-rich open reading frame-termed mgtL-that permits intracellular proline to regulate mgtA expression. Interfering with mgtL translation by genetic, pharmacological, or environmental means was observed to increase the mRNA levels from the mgtA coding region. Substitution of the mgtL proline codons by other codons abolished the response to proline and to hyperosmotic stress but not to Mg(2+). Our findings show that mRNA leader sequences can consist of complex regulatory elements that utilize different mechanisms to sense separate signals and mediate an appropriate cellular response.

SUBMITTER: Park SY

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2967377 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A bacterial mRNA leader that employs different mechanisms to sense disparate intracellular signals.

Park Sun-Yang SY Cromie Michael J MJ Lee Eun-Jin EJ Groisman Eduardo A EA

Cell 20100901 5

Bacterial mRNAs often contain leader sequences that respond to specific metabolites or ions by altering expression of the associated downstream protein-coding sequences. Here we report that the leader RNA of the Mg(2+) transporter gene mgtA of Salmonella enterica, which was previously known to function as a Mg(2+)-sensing riboswitch, harbors an 18 codon proline-rich open reading frame-termed mgtL-that permits intracellular proline to regulate mgtA expression. Interfering with mgtL translation by ...[more]

PMID: 20813261

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