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Riboswitches in eubacteria sense the second messenger c-di-AMP.


ABSTRACT: Cyclic di-adenosine monophosphate (c-di-AMP) is a recently discovered bacterial second messenger implicated in the control of cell wall metabolism, osmotic stress responses and sporulation. However, the mechanisms by which c-di-AMP triggers these physiological responses have remained largely unknown. Notably, a candidate riboswitch class called ydaO associates with numerous genes involved in these same processes. Although a representative ydaO motif RNA recently was reported to weakly bind ATP, we report that numerous members of this noncoding RNA class selectively respond to c-di-AMP with subnanomolar affinity. Our findings resolve the mystery regarding the primary ligand for this extremely common riboswitch class and expose a major portion of the super-regulon of genes that are controlled by the widespread bacterial second messenger c-di-AMP.

SUBMITTER: Nelson JW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3830699 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Riboswitches in eubacteria sense the second messenger c-di-AMP.

Nelson James W JW   Sudarsan Narasimhan N   Furukawa Kazuhiro K   Weinberg Zasha Z   Wang Joy X JX   Breaker Ronald R RR  

Nature chemical biology 20131020 12


Cyclic di-adenosine monophosphate (c-di-AMP) is a recently discovered bacterial second messenger implicated in the control of cell wall metabolism, osmotic stress responses and sporulation. However, the mechanisms by which c-di-AMP triggers these physiological responses have remained largely unknown. Notably, a candidate riboswitch class called ydaO associates with numerous genes involved in these same processes. Although a representative ydaO motif RNA recently was reported to weakly bind ATP,  ...[more]

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