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Bai Y, Xie C, Zhang Y, Zhang Z, Liu J, Cheng G, Li Y, Wang D, Cui B, Liu Y, Qin X. sRNA expression profile of KPC-2-producing carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae: Functional role of sRNA51. PLoS Pathog 2024; 20:e1012187. [PMID: 38718038 PMCID: PMC11078416 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1012187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2023] [Accepted: 04/11/2024] [Indexed: 05/12/2024] Open
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The emergence of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKP) has significant challenges to human health and clinical treatment, with KPC-2-producing CRKP being the predominant epidemic strain. Therefore, there is an urgent need to identify new therapeutic targets and strategies. Non-coding small RNA (sRNA) is a post-transcriptional regulator of genes involved in important biological processes in bacteria and represents an emerging therapeutic strategy for antibiotic-resistant bacteria. In this study, we analyzed the transcription profile of KPC-2-producing CRKP using RNA-seq. Of the 4693 known genes detected, the expression of 307 genes was significantly different from that of carbapenem-sensitive Klebsiella pneumoniae (CSKP), including 133 up-regulated and 174 down-regulated genes. Both the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathway enrichment and Gene Ontology (GO) analysis showed that these differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were mainly related to metabolism. In addition, we identified the sRNA expression profile of KPC-2-producing CRKP for the first time and detected 115 sRNAs, including 112 newly discovered sRNAs. Compared to CSKP, 43 sRNAs were differentially expressed in KPC-2-producing CRKP, including 39 up-regulated and 4 down-regulated sRNAs. We chose sRNA51, the most significantly differentially expressed sRNA in KPC-2-producing CRKP, as our research subject. By constructing sRNA51-overexpressing KPC-2-producing CRKP strains, we found that sRNA51 overexpression down-regulated the expression of acrA and alleviated resistance to meropenem and ertapenem in KPC-2-producing CRKP, while overexpression of acrA in sRNA51-overexpressing strains restored the reduction of resistance. Therefore, we speculated that sRNA51 could affect the resistance of KPC-2-producing CRKP by inhibiting acrA expression and affecting the formation of efflux pumps. This provides a new approach for developing antibiotic adjuvants to restore the sensitivity of CRKP.
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- Yibo Bai
- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
- Liaoning Clinical Research Center for Laboratory Medicine, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
- Liaoning Clinical Research Center for Laboratory Medicine, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
- Liaoning Clinical Research Center for Laboratory Medicine, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
- Liaoning Clinical Research Center for Laboratory Medicine, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
- Liaoning Clinical Research Center for Laboratory Medicine, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
- Liaoning Clinical Research Center for Laboratory Medicine, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
- Liaoning Clinical Research Center for Laboratory Medicine, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
- Liaoning Clinical Research Center for Laboratory Medicine, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
- Liaoning Clinical Research Center for Laboratory Medicine, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
- Liaoning Clinical Research Center for Laboratory Medicine, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
- Liaoning Clinical Research Center for Laboratory Medicine, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
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De Lay NR, Verma N, Sinha D, Garrett A, Osterberg MK, Reiling S, Porter D, Giedroc DP, Winkler ME. The five homologous CiaR-controlled Ccn sRNAs of Streptococcus pneumoniae modulate Zn-resistance. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2023.11.07.565944. [PMID: 37986909 PMCID: PMC10659304 DOI: 10.1101/2023.11.07.565944] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2023]
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Zinc is a vital transition metal for Streptococcus pneumoniae, but is deadly at high concentrations. In S. pneumoniae, elevated intracellular free Zn levels result in mis-metallation of key Mn-dependent metabolic and superoxide detoxifying enzymes resulting in Zn intoxication. Here, we report our identification and characterization of the function of the five homologous, CiaRH-regulated Ccn sRNAs in controlling S. pneumoniae virulence and metal homeostasis. We show that deletion of all five ccn genes (ccnA, ccnB, ccnC, ccnD, and ccnE) from S. pneumoniae strains D39 (serotype 2) and TIGR4 (serotype 4) causes Zn hypersensitivity and an attenuation of virulence in a murine invasive pneumonia model. We provide evidence that bioavailable Zn disproportionately increases in S. pneumoniae strains lacking the five ccn genes. Consistent with a response to Zn intoxication or relatively high intracellular free Zn levels, expression of genes encoding the CzcD Zn exporter and the Mn-independent ribonucleotide reductase, NrdD-NrdG, were increased in the ΔccnABCDE mutant relative to its isogenic ccn+ parent strain. The growth inhibition by Zn that occurs as the result of loss of the ccn genes is rescued by supplementation with Mn or Oxyrase™, a reagent that removes dissolved oxygen. Lastly, we found that the Zn-dependent growth inhibition of the ΔccnABCDE strain was not altered by deletion of sodA, whereas the ccn+ ΔsodA strain phenocopied the ΔccnABCDE strain. Overall, our results indicate that the Ccn sRNAs have a crucial role in preventing Zn intoxication in S. pneumoniae.
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- Nicholas R. De Lay
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
- MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana 47405
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana 47405
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana 47405
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Qin B, Peng Q, Dong H, Lei L, Wu S. Non-coding RNAs in diabetic foot ulcer- a focus on infected wounds. Diabetes Metab Res Rev 2024; 40:e3740. [PMID: 37839046 DOI: 10.1002/dmrr.3740] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2022] [Revised: 07/19/2023] [Accepted: 09/25/2023] [Indexed: 10/17/2023]
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Diabetes mellitus is associated with a wide range of neuropathies, vasculopathies, and immunopathies, resulting in many complications. More than 30% of diabetic patients risk developing diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs). Non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs), including microRNAs (miRNAs), long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), and circular RNAs (circRNAs), play essential roles in various biological functions in the hyperglycaemic environment that determines the development of DFU. Ulceration results in tissue breakdown and skin barrier scavenging, thereby facilitating bacterial infection and biofilm formation. Many bacteria contribute to diabetic foot infection (DFI), including Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) et al. A heterogeneous group of "ncRNAs," termed small RNAs (sRNAs), powerfully regulates biofilm formation and DFI healing. Multidisciplinary foot care interventions have been identified for nonhealing ulcers. With an appreciation of the link between disease processes and ncRNAs, a novel therapeutic model of bioactive materials loaded with ncRNAs has been developed to prevent and manage diabetic foot complications.
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- Boquan Qin
- Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Orthopedic Research Institute, Laboratory of Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Orthopedic Research Institute, Laboratory of Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Orthopedic Research Institute, Laboratory of Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases & National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Orthopedic Research Institute, Laboratory of Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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Wang L, Hou J, Yang K, Yu H, Zhang B, Liu Z, Zheng Y. Development of synthetic small regulatory RNA for Rhodococcus erythropolis. Biotechnol J 2024; 19:e2400022. [PMID: 38528342 DOI: 10.1002/biot.202400022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2024] [Revised: 02/21/2024] [Accepted: 02/29/2024] [Indexed: 03/27/2024]
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Rhodococci have been regarded as ideal chassis for biotransformation, biodegradation, and biosynthesis for their unique environmental persistence and robustness. However, most species of Rhodococcus are still difficult to metabolically engineer due to the lack of genetic tools and techniques. In this study, synthetic sRNA strategy was exploited for gene repression in R. erythropolis XP. The synthetic sRNA based on the RhlS scaffold from Pseudomonas aeruginosa functions better in repressing sfgfp expression than those based on E. coli MicC, SgrS, and P. aeruginosa PrrF1-2 scaffold. The RhlS-based sRNAs were applied to study the influence of sulfur metabolism on biodesulfurization (BDS) efficiency in R. erythropolis XP and successfully identified two genes involved in sulfur metabolism that affect the BDS efficiency significantly. The RhlS-based synthetic sRNAs show promise in the metabolic engineering of Rhodococcus and promote the industrial applications of Rhodococcus in environmental remediation and biosynthesis.
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- Lijuan Wang
- The National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Biomanufacturing of Chiral Chemicals, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China
- Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Synthesis of Zhejiang Province, College of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China
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- School of Life Sciences and Medicine, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo, P.R. China
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- The National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Biomanufacturing of Chiral Chemicals, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China
- Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Synthesis of Zhejiang Province, College of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China
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- The National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Biomanufacturing of Chiral Chemicals, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China
- Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Synthesis of Zhejiang Province, College of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China
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- The National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Biomanufacturing of Chiral Chemicals, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China
- Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Synthesis of Zhejiang Province, College of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China
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- The National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Biomanufacturing of Chiral Chemicals, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China
- Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Synthesis of Zhejiang Province, College of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China
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- The National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Biomanufacturing of Chiral Chemicals, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China
- Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Synthesis of Zhejiang Province, College of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China
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Wang X, Wang L, Wang Y, Fu X, Wang X, Wu H, Wang H, Lu Z. sRNA molecules participate in hyperosmotic stress response regulation in Sphingomonas melonis TY. Appl Environ Microbiol 2024; 90:e0215823. [PMID: 38289134 PMCID: PMC10880617 DOI: 10.1128/aem.02158-23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2023] [Accepted: 12/21/2023] [Indexed: 02/22/2024] Open
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Drought and salinity are ubiquitous environmental factors that pose hyperosmotic threats to microorganisms and impair their efficiency in performing environmental functions. However, bacteria have developed various responses and regulatory systems to cope with these abiotic challenges. Posttranscriptional regulation plays vital roles in regulating gene expression and cellular homeostasis, as hyperosmotic stress conditions can lead to the induction of specific small RNA molecules (sRNAs) that participate in stress response regulation. Here, we report a candidate functional sRNA landscape of Sphingomonas melonis TY under hyperosmotic stress, and 18 sRNAs were found with a clear response to hyperosmotic stress. These findings will help in the comprehensive analysis of sRNA regulation in Sphingomonas species. Weighted correlation network analysis revealed a 263 nucleotide sRNA, SNC251, which was transcribed from its own promoter and showed the most significant correlation with hyperosmotic response factors. Deletion of snc251 affected biofilm formation and multiple cellular processes, including ribosome-related pathways, aromatic compound degradation, and the nicotine degradation capacity of S. melonis TY, while overexpression of SNC251 facilitated biofilm formation by TY under hyperosmotic stress. Two genes involved in the TonB system were further verified to be activated by SNC251, which also indicated that SNC251 is a trans-acting sRNA. Briefly, this research reports a landscape of sRNAs participating in the hyperosmotic stress response in S. melonis and reveals a novel sRNA, SNC251, which contributes to the S. melonis TY biofilm formation and thus enhances its hyperosmotic stress response ability.IMPORTANCESphingomonas species play a vital role in plant defense and pollutant degradation and survive extensively under drought or salinity. Previous studies have focused on the transcriptional and translational responses of Sphingomonas under hyperosmotic stress, but the posttranscriptional regulation of small RNA molecules (sRNAs) is also crucial for quickly modulating cellular processes to adapt dynamically to osmotic environments. In addition, the current knowledge of sRNAs in Sphingomonas is extremely scarce. This research revealed a novel sRNA landscape of Sphingomonas melonis and will greatly enhance our understanding of sRNAs' acting mechanisms in the hyperosmotic stress response.
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- Xiaoyu Wang
- MOE Laboratory of Biosystem Homeostasis and Protection, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
- Cancer Center, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- MOE Laboratory of Biosystem Homeostasis and Protection, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
- Cancer Center, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- MOE Laboratory of Biosystem Homeostasis and Protection, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
- Cancer Center, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- MOE Laboratory of Biosystem Homeostasis and Protection, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
- Cancer Center, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- MOE Laboratory of Biosystem Homeostasis and Protection, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- MOE Laboratory of Biosystem Homeostasis and Protection, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
- Cancer Center, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- MOE Laboratory of Biosystem Homeostasis and Protection, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- MOE Laboratory of Biosystem Homeostasis and Protection, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
- Cancer Center, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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Ning C, Li N, Wang L, Guo Y, Ji C, Li Z, Shang Y, Zhang X, Sun Y, Huang X, Leng Q, Cai X, Meng Q, Qiao J. STnc1280, a trans-coding sRNA is involved in virulence modulation via targeting gldA mRNA in Salmonella Typhimurium. J Med Microbiol 2024; 73. [PMID: 38353511 DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.001804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2024] Open
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Introduction. Salmonella Typhimurium (STM) is a food-borne Gram-negative bacterium, which can infect humans and a wide range of livestock and poultry, causing a variety of diseases such as septicaemia, enteritis and abortion.Hypothesis/Gap Statement. We will decipher the impacts of sRNA STnc1280 on STM virulence and provide a theoretical basis to reveal the regulatory role and molecular mechanism of STnc1280.Aim. The main objective of this study was to clarify whether sRNA STnc1280 exerts regulatory roles on STM pathogenicity.Methodology. The STnc1280 gene was amplified and its molecular characteristics were analysed in this study. Then, STnc1280 gene deletion strain (STM-ΔSTnc1280) and the complementary strain (ΔSTnc1280/STnc1280) were constructed by λ-Red homologous recombination method, respectively, to analyse of adhesion and invasive ability and pathogenicity of different strains. Subsequently, the potential target gene regulated by STnc1280 was predicted using target RNA2 software, followed by the verification of the interaction between STnc1280 and target mRNA using the dual plasmid reporter system (DPRS). Furthermore, the mRNA and protein level of target gene was determined using qRT-PCR and Western blot, respectively.Results. The results revealed that the cell adhesion and invasive ability and pathogenicity of STM-ΔSTnc1280 were significantly reduced compared to STM-SL1344 strain, indicating that the deficiency of STnc1280 gene significantly influenced STM pathogenicity. The DPRS results showed that STnc1280 can interact with the mRNA of target gene gldA, thus suppressing the expression of lacZ gene. Furthermore, the level of gldA mRNA was not influenced in STM-ΔSTnc1280, but the expression of GldA protein decreased significantly.Conclusion. Combining the bioinformatic analysis, these findings suggested that STnc1280 may bind to the SD sequence of gldA mRNA, hindering the binding of ribosomes to gldA mRNA, thereby inhibiting the expression of GldA protein to modulate the virulence of STM.
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- Chengcheng Ning
- College of Animal Science and Technology, Shihezi University, Shihezi, Xinjiang, 832003, PR China
- College of Animal Science and Technology, Xinjiang Agricultural Vocational and Technical College, Changji, Xinjiang, 831100, PR China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Shihezi University, Shihezi, Xinjiang, 832003, PR China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Shihezi University, Shihezi, Xinjiang, 832003, PR China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Shihezi University, Shihezi, Xinjiang, 832003, PR China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Shihezi University, Shihezi, Xinjiang, 832003, PR China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Shihezi University, Shihezi, Xinjiang, 832003, PR China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Shihezi University, Shihezi, Xinjiang, 832003, PR China
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- Institute of Animal Science and Veterinary Research, Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural and Reclamation Science, Shihezi, Xinjiang, 832000, PR China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Shihezi University, Shihezi, Xinjiang, 832003, PR China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Shihezi University, Shihezi, Xinjiang, 832003, PR China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Shihezi University, Shihezi, Xinjiang, 832003, PR China
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- State Key Lab of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu, 730046, PR China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Shihezi University, Shihezi, Xinjiang, 832003, PR China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Shihezi University, Shihezi, Xinjiang, 832003, PR China
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Lillebæk EMS, Kallipolitis BH. Experimental Validation of RNA-RNA Interactions by Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assay. Methods Mol Biol 2024; 2741:195-206. [PMID: 38217655 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3565-0_11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2024]
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Regulatory RNAs in bacteria are known to act by base pairing with other RNAs. Interactions between two partner RNAs can be investigated by electrophoretic mobility shift assays. The regions predicted to be engaged in base pairing are analyzed by introducing mutations in one RNA that prevent RNA-RNA complex formation. Next, base pairing is restored by introducing complementary mutations in its partner RNA. Here, we describe the mutational strategy and experimental methods used to validate specific base pairing between two RNA species.
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Börner J, Friedrich T, Klug G. RNase III participates in control of quorum sensing, pigmentation and oxidative stress resistance in Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Mol Microbiol 2023; 120:874-892. [PMID: 37823424 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.15181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2023] [Revised: 09/21/2023] [Accepted: 09/26/2023] [Indexed: 10/13/2023]
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RNase III is a dsRNA-specific endoribonuclease, highly conserved in bacteria and eukarya. In this study, we analysed the effects of inactivation of RNase III on the transcriptome and the phenotype of the facultative phototrophic α-proteobacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides. RNA-seq revealed an unexpectedly high amount of genes with increased expression located directly downstream to the rRNA operons. Chromosomal insertion of additional transcription terminators restored wild type-like expression of the downstream genes, indicating that RNase III may modulate the rRNA transcription termination in R. sphaeroides. Furthermore, we identified RNase III as a major regulator of quorum-sensing autoinducer synthesis in R. sphaeroides. It negatively controls the expression of the autoinducer synthase CerI by reducing cerI mRNA stability. In addition, RNase III inactivation caused altered resistance against oxidative stress and impaired formation of photosynthetically active pigment-protein complexes. We also observed an increase in the CcsR small RNAs that were previously shown to promote resistance to oxidative stress. Taken together, our data present interesting insights into RNase III-mediated regulation and expand the knowledge on the function of this important enzyme in bacteria.
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- Janek Börner
- Institute of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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- Biomedical Informatics and Systems Medicine, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
- Institute of Biochemistry, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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Allouche D, Kostova G, Hamon M, Marchand CH, Caron M, Belhocine S, Christol N, Charteau V, Condon C, Durand S. New RoxS sRNA Targets Identified in Bacillus subtilis by Pulsed SILAC. Microbiol Spectr 2023; 11:e0047123. [PMID: 37338392 PMCID: PMC10433868 DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.00471-23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2023] [Accepted: 05/18/2023] [Indexed: 06/21/2023] Open
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Non-coding RNAs (sRNA) play a key role in controlling gene expression in bacteria, typically by base-pairing with ribosome binding sites to block translation. The modification of ribosome traffic along the mRNA generally affects its stability. However, a few cases have been described in bacteria where sRNAs can affect translation without a major impact on mRNA stability. To identify new sRNA targets in Bacillus subtilis potentially belonging to this class of mRNAs, we used pulsed-SILAC (stable isotope labeling by amino acids in cell culture) to label newly synthesized proteins after short expression of the RoxS sRNA, the best characterized sRNA in this bacterium. RoxS sRNA was previously shown to interfere with the expression of genes involved in central metabolism, permitting control of the NAD+/NADH ratio in B. subtilis. In this study, we confirmed most of the known targets of RoxS, showing the efficiency of the method. We further expanded the number of mRNA targets encoding enzymes of the TCA cycle and identified new targets. One of these is YcsA, a tartrate dehydrogenase that uses NAD+ as co-factor, in excellent agreement with the proposed role of RoxS in management of NAD+/NADH ratio in Firmicutes. IMPORTANCE Non-coding RNAs (sRNA) play an important role in bacterial adaptation and virulence. The identification of the most complete set of targets for these regulatory RNAs is key to fully identifying the perimeter of its function(s). Most sRNAs modify both the translation (directly) and mRNA stability (indirectly) of their targets. However, sRNAs can also influence the translation efficiency of the target primarily, with little or no impact on mRNA stability. The characterization of these targets is challenging. We describe here the application of the pulsed SILAC method to identify such targets and obtain the most complete list of targets for a defined sRNA.
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- Delphine Allouche
- Expression Génétique Microbienne, CNRS, Université Paris Cité, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Paris, France
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- Expression Génétique Microbienne, CNRS, Université Paris Cité, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Paris, France
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- FR550, CNRS, Plateforme de Protéomique, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Paris, France
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- FR550, CNRS, Plateforme de Protéomique, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Paris, France
- CNRS, UMR7238, Laboratory of Computational and Quantitative Biology, Sorbonne Université, Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine, Paris, France
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- Expression Génétique Microbienne, CNRS, Université Paris Cité, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Paris, France
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- Expression Génétique Microbienne, CNRS, Université Paris Cité, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Paris, France
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- Expression Génétique Microbienne, CNRS, Université Paris Cité, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Paris, France
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- Expression Génétique Microbienne, CNRS, Université Paris Cité, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Paris, France
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- Expression Génétique Microbienne, CNRS, Université Paris Cité, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Paris, France
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- Expression Génétique Microbienne, CNRS, Université Paris Cité, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Paris, France
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Hespanhol JT, Nóbrega-Silva L, Bayer-Santos E. Regulation of type VI secretion systems at the transcriptional, posttranscriptional and posttranslational level. MICROBIOLOGY (READING, ENGLAND) 2023; 169:001376. [PMID: 37552221 PMCID: PMC10482370 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.001376] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2023] [Accepted: 07/25/2023] [Indexed: 08/09/2023]
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Bacteria live in complex polymicrobial communities and are constantly competing for resources. The type VI secretion system (T6SS) is a widespread antagonistic mechanism used by Gram-negative bacteria to gain an advantage over competitors. T6SSs translocate toxic effector proteins inside target prokaryotic cells in a contact-dependent manner. In addition, some T6SS effectors can be secreted extracellularly and contribute to the scavenging scarce metal ions. Bacteria deploy their T6SSs in different situations, categorizing these systems into offensive, defensive and exploitative. The great variety of bacterial species and environments occupied by such species reflect the complexity of regulatory signals and networks that control the expression and activation of the T6SSs. Such regulation is tightly controlled at the transcriptional, posttranscriptional and posttranslational level by abiotic (e.g. pH, iron) or biotic (e.g. quorum-sensing) cues. In this review, we provide an update on the current knowledge about the regulatory networks that modulate the expression and activity of T6SSs across several species, focusing on systems used for interbacterial competition.
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- Julia Takuno Hespanhol
- Department of Microbiology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo 05508-900, Brazil
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- Department of Microbiology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo 05508-900, Brazil
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- Department of Microbiology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo 05508-900, Brazil
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Zhou G, Wang Q, Wang Y, Wen X, Peng H, Peng R, Shi Q, Xie X, Li L. Outer Membrane Porins Contribute to Antimicrobial Resistance in Gram-Negative Bacteria. Microorganisms 2023; 11:1690. [PMID: 37512863 PMCID: PMC10385648 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms11071690] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2023] [Revised: 06/21/2023] [Accepted: 06/23/2023] [Indexed: 07/30/2023] Open
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Gram-negative bacteria depend on their cell membranes for survival and environmental adaptation. They contain two membranes, one of which is the outer membrane (OM), which is home to several different outer membrane proteins (Omps). One class of important Omps is porins, which mediate the inflow of nutrients and several antimicrobial drugs. The microorganism's sensitivity to antibiotics, which are predominantly targeted at internal sites, is greatly influenced by the permeability characteristics of porins. In this review, the properties and interactions of five common porins, OmpA, OmpC, OmpF, OmpW, and OmpX, in connection to porin-mediated permeability are outlined. Meanwhile, this review also highlighted the discovered regulatory characteristics and identified molecular mechanisms in antibiotic penetration through porins. Taken together, uncovering porins' functional properties will pave the way to investigate effective agents or approaches that use porins as targets to get rid of resistant gram-negative bacteria.
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- Gang Zhou
- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiomics and Precision Application (MARA), Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiome (MARA), State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiomics and Precision Application (MARA), Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiome (MARA), State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiomics and Precision Application (MARA), Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiome (MARA), State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiomics and Precision Application (MARA), Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiome (MARA), State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiomics and Precision Application (MARA), Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiome (MARA), State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiomics and Precision Application (MARA), Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiome (MARA), State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiomics and Precision Application (MARA), Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiome (MARA), State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiomics and Precision Application (MARA), Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiome (MARA), State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiomics and Precision Application (MARA), Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiome (MARA), State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China
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Thereza Fiori-Duarte A, Bitencourt de Souza Ferreira L, Sanches Ascencio A, Fábio Kawano D. Modulation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing by ajoene through direct competition with small RNAs for binding at the proximal site of Hfq - a structure-based perspective. Gene 2023:147506. [PMID: 37224934 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2023.147506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2023] [Revised: 05/16/2023] [Accepted: 05/19/2023] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Bacteria can communicate to each other via quorum sensing, a cell density-dependent gene regulation system that stimulates the expression of virulence factors in the neighboring cells. Although the interaction of the natural product ajoene with the Hfq protein has been associated with the disruption of the quorum sensing system in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, there is no information concerning the corresponding ligand-target interaction process. Herein we observed a strong correlation (p < 0.00001) between the estimated affinities for the binding of 23 ajoene analogues at the proximal site of the Hfq protein of P. aeruginosa and their corresponding IC50 values, which reflect the reduction in the transcription of a virulence factor after quorum sensing inhibition. In this concern, our analyses reinforces previous propositions suggesting that ajoene could target the Hfq protein and affects its interaction with RNAs. Based on docking simulations, we tried to elucidate the binding mode of ajoene into the proximal Hfq site and the also to established the minimum set of groups that would be necessary for a good interaction at this site, which includes a single hydrogen bond acceptor feature surrounded by groups that interact via π-sulfur (i.e., disulfide sulfurs) and/or π-alkyl/π-π stacking interactions (e.g., vinyl or small aryl/heteroaryl/heterocyclic groups). Because of the widespread role of Hfq as a matchmaker between messenger and small regulatory RNAs in Gram-negatives, we believe the discussion here provided for P. aeruginosa could be extrapolated for Gram-negatives in general, while the interaction of ajoene over the Hfq protein of Gram-positives would still remain more controversial.
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- Ana Thereza Fiori-Duarte
- Group on the Research & Development of Bioactive Compounds (GR&DBC), Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Campinas - UNICAMP, Rua Cândido Portinari 200, 13083-871 Campinas-SP, Brazil
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- Group on the Research & Development of Bioactive Compounds (GR&DBC), Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Campinas - UNICAMP, Rua Cândido Portinari 200, 13083-871 Campinas-SP, Brazil
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- Group on the Research & Development of Bioactive Compounds (GR&DBC), Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Campinas - UNICAMP, Rua Cândido Portinari 200, 13083-871 Campinas-SP, Brazil
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- Group on the Research & Development of Bioactive Compounds (GR&DBC), Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Campinas - UNICAMP, Rua Cândido Portinari 200, 13083-871 Campinas-SP, Brazil.
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Yang P, Geng C, Zhu S, Zhou Z, Bilal M, Gu C, Xu H, Ji L, Xiao B, Wang J, Qian Z, Zhao L, Zhao Y, Lu H. Identification and functional analysis of non-coding regulatory small RNA FenSr3 in Bacillus amyloliquefaciens LPB-18. PeerJ 2023; 11:e15236. [PMID: 37214100 PMCID: PMC10194069 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.15236] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2022] [Accepted: 03/28/2023] [Indexed: 05/24/2023] Open
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Bacillus amyloliquefaciens is an interesting microbe in the food processing and manufacturing industries. Non-coding small RNAs (sRNAs) have been shown to play a crucial role in the physiology and metabolism of bacteria by post-transcriptionally regulating gene expression. This study investigated the function of novel sRNA FenSr3 by constructing fenSr3 deficient strain and complementary strains in B. amyloliquefaciens LPB-18 , which were named LPN-18N and LPB-18P, respectively. The result showed significant differences in fengycin yield between strain LPB -18N and LPB-18P. The production of fengycin was significantly enhanced in B. amyloliquefaciens LPB-18N, compared with that of the strain LPB-18 from 190.908 mg/L to 327.598 mg/L. Moreover, the production of fengycin decreased from 190.464 mg/L to 38.6 mg/L in B . amyloliquefaciens LPB-18P. A comparative transcriptome sequencing was carried out to better understand the complex regulatory mechanism. Transcription analysis revealed that 1037 genes were differentially expressed between B. amyloliquefaciens LPB-18 and B. amyloliquefaciens LPB-18N, including the key regulatory genes in fatty acid, amino acid biosynthesis, and central carbon metabolism, which could provide sufficient quantities of building precursors for fengycin biosynthesis. The biofilm formation and sporulation was also enhanced in the strain LPB-18N, which indicates that FenSr3 could play a vital role in stress resistance and promotes survival in B. amyloliquefaciens. Some sRNAs involved in stress response have been identified in the literature, but their regulatory roles in fengycin production remain unclear. The study will contribute a novel perspective to the regulation mechanism of biosynthesis and the optimization of key metabolites of B. amyloliquefaciens.
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- Panping Yang
- School of Life Science and Food Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian, Jiangsu, China
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- School of Life Science and Food Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian, Jiangsu, China
- College of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Weigang, China
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- School of Life Science and Food Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian, Jiangsu, China
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- School of Life Science and Food Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian, Jiangsu, China
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- School of Life Science and Food Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian, Jiangsu, China
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- School of Life Science and Food Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian, Jiangsu, China
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- School of Life Science and Food Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian, Jiangsu, China
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- School of Life Science and Food Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian, Jiangsu, China
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- School of Life Science and Food Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian, Jiangsu, China
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- School of Life Science and Food Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian, Jiangsu, China
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- School of Life Science and Food Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian, Jiangsu, China
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- School of Life Science and Food Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian, Jiangsu, China
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- School of Life Science and Food Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian, Jiangsu, China
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- School of Life Science and Food Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian, Jiangsu, China
- National Engineering Research Center for Functional Food, Jiangnan College, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
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Shi C, Zheng L, Lu Z, Zhang X, Bie X. The global regulator SpoVG regulates Listeria monocytogenes biofilm formation. Microb Pathog 2023; 180:106144. [PMID: 37148923 DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2023.106144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2023] [Revised: 05/03/2023] [Accepted: 05/03/2023] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Biofilms provide a suitable environment for L. monocytogenes and are the cause of enormous risks in the food industry. SpoVG is a global regulatory factor that plays a vital role in physiological activity of L. monocytogenes. We constructed spoVG mutant strains to investigate the effects of these mutants on L. monocytogenes biofilms. The results show that L. monocytogenes biofilm formation was decreased by 40%. Furthermore, we measured biofilm related phenotypes to study the regulation of SpoVG. The motility capacity of L. monocytogenes was found to decrease after the deletion of spoVG. The cell surface properties changed in the spoVG mutant strains, with an increase in both the cell surface hydrophobicity and the auto-aggregation capacity after spoVG deletion. SpoVG mutant strains were found to be more sensitive to antibiotics, and had a reduced tolerance to inappropriate pH, salt stress and low temperature. The RT-qPCR results showed that SpoVG effectively regulated the expression of genes related to quorum sensing, flagella, virulence and stress factors. These findings suggest that spoVG has potential as a target to decrease biofilm formation and control L. monocytogenes contamination in the food industry.
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- Changzheng Shi
- College of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, People's Republic of China
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- College of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, People's Republic of China
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- College of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, People's Republic of China
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- College of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, People's Republic of China
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- College of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, People's Republic of China.
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Zeng S, Shi Q, Liu Y, Li M, Lin D, Zhang S, Li Q, Pu J, Shen C, Huang B, Chen C, Zeng J. The small RNA PrrH of Pseudomonas aeruginosa regulates hemolysis and oxidative resistance in bloodstream infection. Microb Pathog 2023; 180:106124. [PMID: 37105322 DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2023.106124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2023] [Revised: 04/23/2023] [Accepted: 04/24/2023] [Indexed: 04/29/2023]
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Small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) regulate multiple physiological functions in bacteria, and sRNA PrrH can regulate iron homeostasis and virulence. However, the function of PrrH in Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) bloodstream infection (BSI) is largely unknown. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of PrrH in P. aeruginosa BSI model. First, P. aeruginosa PAO1 was co-cultured with peripheral blood cells for 6 h qRT-PCR results showed a transient up-regulation of PrrH expression at 1 h. Simultaneously, the expression of iron uptake genes fpvA, pvdS and phuR was upregulated. In addition, the use of iron chelator 2,2'-dipyridyl to create low-iron conditions caused up-regulation of PrrH expression, a result similar to the BSI model. Furthermore, the addition of FeCl3 was found to decrease PrrH expression. These results support the hypothesis that the expression of PrrH is regulated by iron in BSI model. Then, to clarify the effect of PrrH on major cells in the blood, we used PrrH mutant, overexpressing and wild-type strains to act separately on erythrocytes and neutrophils. On one hand, the hemolysis assay revealed that PrrH contributes to the hemolytic activity of PAO1, and its effect was dependent on the T3SS system master regulator gene exsA, yet had no association with the hemolytic phospholipase C (plcH), pldA, and lasB elastase genes. On the other hand, PrrH mutant enhanced the oxidative resistance of PAO1 in the neutrophils co-culture assay, H2O2-treated growth curve and conventional plate spotting assays. Furthermore, the katA was predicted to be a target gene of PrrH by bioinformatics software, and then verified by qPCR and GFP reporter system. In summary, dynamic changes in the expression of prrH are iron-regulated during PAO1 bloodstream infection. In addition, PrrH promotes the hemolytic activity of P. aeruginosa in an exsA-dependent manner and negatively regulates katA to reduce the oxidative tolerance of P. aeruginosa.
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- Shenghe Zeng
- Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, 510000, China; The Second Clinical College of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, 510000, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, 510000, China; The Second Clinical College of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, 510000, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, 510000, China; The Second Clinical College of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, 510000, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, 510000, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, 510000, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, 510000, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, 510000, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, 510000, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, 510000, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510000, China.
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, 510000, China.
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, 510000, China.
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Cho JS, Yang D, Prabowo CPS, Ghiffary MR, Han T, Choi KR, Moon CW, Zhou H, Ryu JY, Kim HU, Lee SY. Targeted and high-throughput gene knockdown in diverse bacteria using synthetic sRNAs. Nat Commun 2023; 14:2359. [PMID: 37095132 PMCID: PMC10126203 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-38119-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2023] [Accepted: 04/17/2023] [Indexed: 04/26/2023] Open
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Synthetic sRNAs allow knockdown of target genes at translational level, but have been restricted to a limited number of bacteria. Here, we report the development of a broad-host-range synthetic sRNA (BHR-sRNA) platform employing the RoxS scaffold and the Hfq chaperone from Bacillus subtilis. BHR-sRNA is tested in 16 bacterial species including commensal, probiotic, pathogenic, and industrial bacteria, with >50% of target gene knockdown achieved in 12 bacterial species. For medical applications, virulence factors in Staphylococcus epidermidis and Klebsiella pneumoniae are knocked down to mitigate their virulence-associated phenotypes. For metabolic engineering applications, high performance Corynebacterium glutamicum strains capable of producing valerolactam (bulk chemical) and methyl anthranilate (fine chemical) are developed by combinatorial knockdown of target genes. A genome-scale sRNA library covering 2959 C. glutamicum genes is constructed for high-throughput colorimetric screening of indigoidine (natural colorant) overproducers. The BHR-sRNA platform will expedite engineering of diverse bacteria of both industrial and medical interest.
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- Jae Sung Cho
- Metabolic and Biomolecular Engineering National Research Laboratory, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (BK21 four), Institute for the BioCentury, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
- Systems Metabolic Engineering and Systems Healthcare Cross-Generation Collaborative Laboratory, KAIST, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
- Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Metabolic and Biomolecular Engineering National Research Laboratory, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (BK21 four), Institute for the BioCentury, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
- Systems Metabolic Engineering and Systems Healthcare Cross-Generation Collaborative Laboratory, KAIST, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, 02481, Republic of Korea
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- Metabolic and Biomolecular Engineering National Research Laboratory, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (BK21 four), Institute for the BioCentury, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
- Systems Metabolic Engineering and Systems Healthcare Cross-Generation Collaborative Laboratory, KAIST, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Systems Metabolic Engineering and Systems Healthcare Cross-Generation Collaborative Laboratory, KAIST, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
- Systems Biology and Medicine Laboratory, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (BK21 four), KAIST, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Metabolic and Biomolecular Engineering National Research Laboratory, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (BK21 four), Institute for the BioCentury, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
- Systems Metabolic Engineering and Systems Healthcare Cross-Generation Collaborative Laboratory, KAIST, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Metabolic and Biomolecular Engineering National Research Laboratory, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (BK21 four), Institute for the BioCentury, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
- Systems Metabolic Engineering and Systems Healthcare Cross-Generation Collaborative Laboratory, KAIST, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Metabolic and Biomolecular Engineering National Research Laboratory, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (BK21 four), Institute for the BioCentury, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
- Systems Metabolic Engineering and Systems Healthcare Cross-Generation Collaborative Laboratory, KAIST, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Metabolic and Biomolecular Engineering National Research Laboratory, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (BK21 four), Institute for the BioCentury, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
- Systems Metabolic Engineering and Systems Healthcare Cross-Generation Collaborative Laboratory, KAIST, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Metabolic and Biomolecular Engineering National Research Laboratory, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (BK21 four), Institute for the BioCentury, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
- Systems Metabolic Engineering and Systems Healthcare Cross-Generation Collaborative Laboratory, KAIST, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
- Department of Biotechnology, College of Science and Technology, Duksung Women's University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Systems Metabolic Engineering and Systems Healthcare Cross-Generation Collaborative Laboratory, KAIST, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
- Systems Biology and Medicine Laboratory, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (BK21 four), KAIST, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
- KAIST Institute for Artificial Intelligence, BioProcess Engineering Research Center and BioInformatics Research Center, KAIST, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Metabolic and Biomolecular Engineering National Research Laboratory, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (BK21 four), Institute for the BioCentury, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea.
- Systems Metabolic Engineering and Systems Healthcare Cross-Generation Collaborative Laboratory, KAIST, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea.
- KAIST Institute for Artificial Intelligence, BioProcess Engineering Research Center and BioInformatics Research Center, KAIST, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea.
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Asencio C, Schwarzl T, Sahadevan S, Hentze MW. Small noncoding RNA interactome capture reveals pervasive, carbon source-dependent tRNA engagement of yeast glycolytic enzymes. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2023; 29:330-345. [PMID: 36574981 PMCID: PMC9945440 DOI: 10.1261/rna.079408.122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2022] [Accepted: 11/29/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Small noncoding RNAs fulfill key functions in cellular and organismal biology, typically working in concert with RNA-binding proteins (RBPs). While proteome-wide methodologies have enormously expanded the repertoire of known RBPs, these methods do not distinguish RBPs binding to small noncoding RNAs from the rest. To specifically identify this relevant subclass of RBPs, we developed small noncoding RNA interactome capture (snRIC2C) based on the differential RNA-binding capacity of silica matrices (2C). We define the S. cerevisiae proteome of nearly 300 proteins that specifically binds to RNAs smaller than 200 nt in length (snRBPs), identifying informative distinctions from the total RNA-binding proteome determined in parallel. Strikingly, the snRBPs include most glycolytic enzymes from yeast. With further methodological developments using silica matrices, 12 tRNAs were identified as specific binders of the glycolytic enzyme GAPDH. We show that tRNA engagement of GAPDH is carbon source-dependent and regulated by the RNA polymerase III repressor Maf1, suggesting a regulatory interaction between glycolysis and RNA polymerase III activity. We conclude that snRIC2C and other 2C-derived methods greatly facilitate the study of RBPs, revealing previously unrecognized interactions.
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- Claudio Asencio
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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Wang X, N MPA, Jeon HJ, He J, Lim HM. Identification of a Rho-Dependent Termination Site In Vivo Using Synthetic Small RNA. Microbiol Spectr 2023; 11:e0395022. [PMID: 36651730 PMCID: PMC9927376 DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.03950-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2022] [Accepted: 01/02/2023] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Rho promotes Rho-dependent termination (RDT) at the Rho-dependent terminator, producing a variable-length region without secondary structure at the 3' end of mRNA. Determining the exact RDT site in vivo is challenging, because the 3' end of mRNA is rapidly removed after RDT by 3'-to-5' exonuclease processing. Here, we applied synthetic small RNA (sysRNA) to identify the RDT region in vivo by exploiting its complementary base-pairing ability to target mRNA. Through the combined analyses of rapid amplification of cDNA 3' ends, primer extension, and capillary electrophoresis, we could precisely map and quantify mRNA 3' ends. We found that complementary double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) formed between sysRNA and mRNA was efficiently cleaved by RNase III in the middle of the dsRNA region. The formation of dsRNA appeared to protect the cleaved RNA 3' ends from rapid degradation by 3'-to-5' exonuclease, thereby stabilizing the mRNA 3' end. We further verified that the signal intensity at the 3' end was positively correlated with the amount of mRNA. By constructing a series of sysRNAs with close target sites and comparing the difference in signal intensity at the 3' end of wild-type and Rho-impaired strains, we finally identified a region of increased mRNA expression within the 21-bp range, which was determined as the RDT region. Our results demonstrated the ability to use sysRNA as a novel tool to identify RDT regions in vivo and expand the range of applications of sysRNA. IMPORTANCE sysRNA, which was formerly widely employed, has steadily lost popularity as more novel techniques for suppressing gene expression come into existence because of issues such as unstable inhibition effect and low inhibition efficiency. However, it remains an interesting topic as a regulatory tool due to its ease of design and low metabolic burden on cells. Here, for the first time, we discovered a new method to identify RDT regions in vivo using sysRNA. This new feature is important because since the discovery of the Rho protein in 1969, specific identification of RDT sites in vivo has been difficult due to the rapid processing of RNA 3' ends by exonucleases, and sysRNA might provide a new approach to address this challenge.
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- Xun Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Biological Sciences, College of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences, College of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
- Infection Control Convergence Research Center, Chungnam National University College of Medicine, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Biological Sciences, College of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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Nielsen FD, Møller-Jensen J, Jørgensen MG. Adding context to the pneumococcal core genes using bioinformatic analysis of the intergenic pangenome of Streptococcus pneumoniae. FRONTIERS IN BIOINFORMATICS 2023; 3:1074212. [PMID: 36844929 PMCID: PMC9944727 DOI: 10.3389/fbinf.2023.1074212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2022] [Accepted: 01/24/2023] [Indexed: 02/10/2023] Open
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Introduction: Whole genome sequencing offers great opportunities for linking genotypes to phenotypes aiding in our understanding of human disease and bacterial pathogenicity. However, these analyses often overlook non-coding intergenic regions (IGRs). By disregarding the IGRs, crucial information is lost, as genes have little biological function without expression. Methods/Results: In this study, we present the first complete pangenome of the important human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus), spanning both the genes and IGRs. We show that the pneumococcus species retains a small core genome of IGRs that are present across all isolates. Gene expression is highly dependent on these core IGRs, and often several copies of these core IGRs are found across each genome. Core genes and core IGRs show a clear linkage as 81% of core genes are associated with core IGRs. Additionally, we identify a single IGR within the core genome that is always occupied by one of two highly distinct sequences, scattered across the phylogenetic tree. Discussion: Their distribution indicates that this IGR is transferred between isolates through horizontal regulatory transfer independent of the flanking genes and that each type likely serves different regulatory roles depending on their genetic context.
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- Flemming Damgaard Nielsen
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark,Department of Clinical Microbiology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark,*Correspondence: Mikkel Girke Jørgensen,
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Carrier MC, Lalaouna D, Massé E. Hfq protein and GcvB small RNA tailoring of oppA target mRNA to levels allowing translation activation by MicF small RNA in Escherichia coli. RNA Biol 2023; 20:59-76. [PMID: 36860088 PMCID: PMC9988348 DOI: 10.1080/15476286.2023.2179582] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/03/2023] Open
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Traffic of molecules across the bacterial membrane mainly relies on porins and transporters, whose expression must adapt to environmental conditions. To ensure bacterial fitness, synthesis and assembly of functional porins and transporters are regulated through a plethora of mechanisms. Among them, small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) are known to be powerful post-transcriptional regulators. In Escherichia coli, the MicF sRNA is known to regulate only four targets, a very narrow targetome for a sRNA responding to various stresses, such as membrane stress, osmotic shock, or thermal shock. Using an in vivo pull-down assay combined with high-throughput RNA sequencing, we sought to identify new targets of MicF to better understand its role in the maintenance of cellular homoeostasis. Here, we report the first positively regulated target of MicF, the oppA mRNA. The OppA protein is the periplasmic component of the Opp ATP-binding cassette (ABC) oligopeptide transporter and regulates the import of short peptides, some of them bactericides. Mechanistic studies suggest that oppA translation is activated by MicF through a mechanism of action involving facilitated access to a translation-enhancing region in oppA 5'UTR. Intriguingly, MicF activation of oppA translation depends on cross-regulation by negative trans-acting effectors, the GcvB sRNA and the RNA chaperone protein Hfq.
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- Marie-Claude Carrier
- Department of Biochemistry and Functional Genomics, RNA Group, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Functional Genomics, RNA Group, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Functional Genomics, RNA Group, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
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Naaz S, Sakib N, Houserova D, Badve R, Crucello A, Borchert GM. Characterization of a novel sRNA contributing to biofilm formation in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. MICROPUBLICATION BIOLOGY 2023; 2023:10.17912/micropub.biology.000796. [PMID: 37151214 PMCID: PMC10160853 DOI: 10.17912/micropub.biology.000796] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2023] [Revised: 04/20/2023] [Accepted: 01/01/1970] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Small RNAs (sRNAs) are short noncoding RNAs of ~50-200 nucleotides believed to primarily function in regulating crucial activities in bacteria during periods of cellular stress. This study examined the relevance of specific sRNAs on biofilm formation in nutrient starved Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. Eight unique sRNAs were selected for deletion primarily based on their genomic location and/or putative targets. Quantitative and qualitative analyses confirm one of these, sRNA1186573, is required for efficient biofilm formation in S. enterica further highlighting the significance of sRNAs during Salmonella stress response.
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- Sayema Naaz
- Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL
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- Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL
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- Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL
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- Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL
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- Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL
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- Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL
- Correspondence to: Glen M Borchert (
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Ormazábal A, Pierdominici-Sottile G, Palma J. Recognition and Binding of RsmE to an AGGAC Motif of RsmZ: Insights from Molecular Dynamics Simulations. J Chem Inf Model 2022; 62:6614-6627. [PMID: 35470666 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.2c00037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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CsrA/RsmE is a post-transcriptional regulator protein widely distributed in bacteria. It impedes the expression of target mRNAs by attaching their 5' untranslated region. The translation is restored by small, noncoding RNAs that sequester CsrA/RsmE acting as sponges. In both cases, the protein recognizes and attaches to specific AGGAX and AXGGAX motifs, where X refers to any nucleotide. RsmZ of Pseudomonas protegens is one of these small RNAs. The structures of some of its complexes with RsmE were disclosed a few years ago. We have used umbrella sampling simulations to force the unbinding of RsmE from the AGGAC motif located in the single-stranded region sited between stem loops 2 and 3 of RsmZ. The calculations unveiled the identity of the main residues and nucleotides involved in the process. They also showed that the region adopts a hairpin-like conformation during the initial stages of the binding. The ability to acquire this conformation requires that the region has a length of at least nine nucleotides. Besides, we performed standard molecular dynamics simulations of the isolated fragments, analyzed their typical conformations, and characterized their movements. This analysis revealed that the free molecules oscillate along specific collective coordinates that facilitate the initial stages of the binding. The results strongly suggest that the flexibility of the single-stranded region of RsmZ crucially affects the ability of its binding motif to catch RsmE.
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- Agustín Ormazábal
- Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Sáenz Peña 352, Bernal B1876BXD, Argentina.,Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Godoy Cruz 2290, CABA C1425FQB, Argentina
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- Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Sáenz Peña 352, Bernal B1876BXD, Argentina.,Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Godoy Cruz 2290, CABA C1425FQB, Argentina
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- Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Sáenz Peña 352, Bernal B1876BXD, Argentina.,Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Godoy Cruz 2290, CABA C1425FQB, Argentina
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Sarshar M, Scribano D, Palamara AT, Ambrosi C, Masotti A. The Acinetobacter baumannii model can explain the role of small non-coding RNAs as potential mediators of host-pathogen interactions. Front Mol Biosci 2022; 9:1088783. [PMID: 36619166 PMCID: PMC9810633 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2022.1088783] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2022] [Accepted: 12/07/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Bacterial small RNAs (sRNAs) research has accelerated over the past decade, boosted by advances in RNA-seq technologies and methodologies for capturing both protein-RNA and RNA-RNA interactions. The emerging picture is that these regulatory sRNAs play important roles in controlling complex physiological processes and are required to survive the antimicrobial challenge. In recent years, the RNA content of OMVs/EVs has also gained increasing attention, particularly in the context of infection. Secreted RNAs from several bacterial pathogens have been characterized but the exact mechanisms promoting pathogenicity remain elusive. In this review, we briefly discuss how secreted sRNAs interact with targets in infected cells, thus representing a novel perspective of host cell manipulation during bacterial infection. During the last decade, Acinetobacter baumannii became clinically relevant emerging pathogens responsible for nosocomial and community-acquired infections. Therefore, we also summarize recent findings of regulation by sRNAs in A. baumannii and discuss how this emerging bacterium utilizes many of these sRNAs to adapt to its niche and become successful human pathogen.
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- Meysam Sarshar
- Research Laboratories, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy,*Correspondence: Meysam Sarshar, ; Andrea Masotti,
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- Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Laboratory Affiliated to Institute Pasteur Italia-Cenci Bolognetti Foundation, Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy,Department of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Human Sciences and Promotion of the Quality of Life, San Raffaele Roma Open University, Rome, Italy,IRCCS San Raffaele Roma, Rome, Italy
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- Research Laboratories, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy,*Correspondence: Meysam Sarshar, ; Andrea Masotti,
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Wei G, Li S, Ye S, Wang Z, Zarringhalam K, He J, Wang W, Shao Z. High-Resolution Small RNAs Landscape Provides Insights into Alkane Adaptation in the Marine Alkane-Degrader Alcanivorax dieselolei B-5. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms232415995. [PMID: 36555635 PMCID: PMC9788540 DOI: 10.3390/ijms232415995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2022] [Revised: 12/07/2022] [Accepted: 12/07/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Alkanes are widespread in the ocean, and Alcanivorax is one of the most ubiquitous alkane-degrading bacteria in the marine ecosystem. Small RNAs (sRNAs) are usually at the heart of regulatory pathways, but sRNA-mediated alkane metabolic adaptability still remains largely unknown due to the difficulties of identification. Here, differential RNA sequencing (dRNA-seq) modified with a size selection (~50-nt to 500-nt) strategy was used to generate high-resolution sRNAs profiling in the model species Alcanivorax dieselolei B-5 under alkane (n-hexadecane) and non-alkane (acetate) conditions. As a result, we identified 549 sRNA candidates at single-nucleotide resolution of 5'-ends, 63.4% of which are with transcription start sites (TSSs), and 36.6% of which are with processing sites (PSSs) at the 5'-ends. These sRNAs originate from almost any location in the genome, regardless of intragenic (65.8%), antisense (20.6%) and intergenic (6.2%) regions, and RNase E may function in the maturation of sRNAs. Most sRNAs locally distribute across the 15 reference genomes of Alcanivorax, and only 7.5% of sRNAs are broadly conserved in this genus. Expression responses to the alkane of several core conserved sRNAs, including 6S RNA, M1 RNA and tmRNA, indicate that they may participate in alkane metabolisms and result in more actively global transcription, RNA processing and stresses mitigation. Two novel CsrA-related sRNAs are identified, which may be involved in the translational activation of alkane metabolism-related genes by sequestering the global repressor CsrA. The relationships of sRNAs with the characterized genes of alkane sensing (ompS), chemotaxis (mcp, cheR, cheW2), transporting (ompT1, ompT2, ompT3) and hydroxylation (alkB1, alkB2, almA) were created based on the genome-wide predicted sRNA-mRNA interactions. Overall, the sRNA landscape lays the ground for uncovering cryptic regulations in critical marine bacterium, among which both the core and species-specific sRNAs are implicated in the alkane adaptive metabolisms.
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- Guangshan Wei
- School of Marine Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Zhuhai 519082, China
- Key Laboratory of Marine Genetic Resources, Third Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Xiamen 361005, China
- State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Marine Genetic Resources, Key Laboratory of Marine Genetic Resources of Fujian Province, Xiamen 361005, China
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Zhuhai 519000, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Genetic Resources, Third Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Xiamen 361005, China
- State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Marine Genetic Resources, Key Laboratory of Marine Genetic Resources of Fujian Province, Xiamen 361005, China
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- Department of Mathematics, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA 02125, USA
- Center for Personalized Cancer Therapy, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA 02125, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Genetic Resources, Third Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Xiamen 361005, China
- State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Marine Genetic Resources, Key Laboratory of Marine Genetic Resources of Fujian Province, Xiamen 361005, China
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- Department of Mathematics, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA 02125, USA
- Center for Personalized Cancer Therapy, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA 02125, USA
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- School of Marine Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Zhuhai 519082, China
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Zhuhai 519000, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Genetic Resources, Third Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Xiamen 361005, China
- State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Marine Genetic Resources, Key Laboratory of Marine Genetic Resources of Fujian Province, Xiamen 361005, China
- Correspondence: (W.W.); (Z.S.)
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- School of Marine Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Zhuhai 519082, China
- Key Laboratory of Marine Genetic Resources, Third Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Xiamen 361005, China
- State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Marine Genetic Resources, Key Laboratory of Marine Genetic Resources of Fujian Province, Xiamen 361005, China
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Zhuhai 519000, China
- Correspondence: (W.W.); (Z.S.)
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RyhB in Avian Pathogenic Escherichia coli Regulates the Expression of Virulence-Related Genes and Contributes to Meningitis Development in a Mouse Model. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms232415532. [PMID: 36555174 PMCID: PMC9778962 DOI: 10.3390/ijms232415532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2022] [Revised: 11/27/2022] [Accepted: 12/06/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) is an important member of extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC). It shares similar pathogenic strategies with neonatal meningitis E. coli (NMEC) and may threaten human health due to its potential zoonosis. RyhB is a small non-coding RNA that regulates iron homeostasis in E. coli. However, it is unclear whether RyhB regulates meningitis occurrence. To investigate the function of RyhB in the development of meningitis, we constructed the deletion mutant APEC XM∆ryhB and the complemented mutant APEC XM∆ryhB/pryhB, established a mouse meningitis model and evaluated the role of RyhB in virulence of APEC. The results showed that the deletion of ryhB decreased biofilm formation, adhesion to the brain microvascular endothelial cell line bEnd.3 and serum resistance. RNA-seq data showed that the expression of multiple virulence-related genes changed in the ryhB deletion mutant in the presence of duck serum. Deletion of ryhB reduced the clinical symptoms of mice, such as opisthotonus, diarrhea and neurological signs, when challenged with APEC. Compared with the mice infected with the wild-type APEC, fewer histopathological lesions were observed in the brain of mice infected with the ryhB deletion mutant APEC XM∆ryhB. The bacterial loads in the tissues and the relative expression of cytokines (IL-1β, IL-6, and TNF-α) in the brain significantly decreased when challenged with the APEC XM∆ryhB. The expressions of tight junction proteins (claudin-5, occludin and ZO-1) were not reduced in the brain of mice infected with APEC XM∆ryhB; that is, the blood-brain barrier permeability of mice was not significantly damaged. In conclusion, RyhB contributes to the pathogenicity of APEC XM in the meningitis-causing process by promoting biofilm formation, adhesion to endothelial cells, serum resistance and virulence-related genes expression.
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Spanka DT, Grützner J, Jäger A, Klug G. A Small RNA, UdsC, Interacts with the R poHII mRNA and Affects the Motility and Stress Resistance of Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms232415486. [PMID: 36555125 PMCID: PMC9779115 DOI: 10.3390/ijms232415486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2022] [Revised: 12/01/2022] [Accepted: 12/02/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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sRNAs have an important role in the regulation of bacterial gene expression. The sRNA, UdsC, of Rhodobacter sphaeroides is derived from the 3' UTR of the RSP_7527 mRNA, which encodes a hypothetical protein. Here, we showed the effect of UdsC on the resistance of Rhodobacter sphaeroides to hydrogen peroxide and on its motility. In vitro binding assays supported the direct interaction of UdsC with the 5' UTR of the rpoHII mRNA. RpoHII is an alternative sigma factor with an important role in stress responses in R. sphaeroides, including its response to hydrogen peroxide. We also demonstrated that RpoHII controls the expression of the torF gene, which encodes an important regulator of motility genes. This strongly suggested that the observed effect of UdsC on TorF expression is indirect and mediated by RpoHII.
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Wang LX, Ji CH, Ning CC, Liu YC, Li ZY, Sun YQ, Xia XZ, Cai XP, Meng QL, Qiao J. A Regulatory sRNA rli41 is Implicated in Cell Adhesion, Invasion and Pathogenicity in Listeria monocytogenes. APPL BIOCHEM MICRO+ 2022. [DOI: 10.1134/s0003683822100167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/27/2023]
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Romero J, Islam MT, Taylor R, Grayson C, Schoenrock A, Wong A. High-throughput design of bacterial anti-sense RNAs using CAREng. BIOINFORMATICS ADVANCES 2022; 2:vbac069. [PMID: 36699397 PMCID: PMC9710602 DOI: 10.1093/bioadv/vbac069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2022] [Revised: 08/19/2022] [Accepted: 09/23/2022] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Summary Short RNA (sRNA) modulation of gene expression is an increasingly popular tool for bacterial functional genomics. Antisense pairing between an sRNA and a target messenger RNA results in post-transcriptional down-regulation of a specific gene and can thus be used both for investigating individual gene function and for large-scale genetic screens. sRNAs have several advantages over knockout libraries in studies of gene function, including inducibility, the capacity to interrogate essential genes and easy portability to multiple genetic backgrounds. High-throughput, systematic design of antisense RNAs will increase the efficiency and repeatability of sRNA screens. To this end, we present CAREng, the Computer-Automated sRNA Engineer. CAREng designs antisense RNAs for all coding sequences in a given genome, while checking for potential off-targets. Availability and implementation CAREng is available as a Python script and through a web portal (https://caren.carleton.ca). Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics Advances online.
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- Jazmin Romero
- Research Computing Services, Carleton University, Ottawa K1S 5B6, Canada
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- Research Computing Services, Carleton University, Ottawa K1S 5B6, Canada
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- Research Computing Services, Carleton University, Ottawa K1S 5B6, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa K1S 5B6, Canada
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- Research Computing Services, Carleton University, Ottawa K1S 5B6, Canada
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed.
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Diallo I, Ho J, Lambert M, Benmoussa A, Husseini Z, Lalaouna D, Massé E, Provost P. A tRNA-derived fragment present in E. coli OMVs regulates host cell gene expression and proliferation. PLoS Pathog 2022; 18:e1010827. [PMID: 36108089 PMCID: PMC9514646 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1010827] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2022] [Revised: 09/27/2022] [Accepted: 08/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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RNA-sequencing has led to a spectacular increase in the repertoire of bacterial sRNAs and improved our understanding of their biological functions. Bacterial sRNAs have also been found in outer membrane vesicles (OMVs), raising questions about their potential involvement in bacteria-host relationship, but few studies have documented this issue. Recent RNA-Sequencing analyses of bacterial RNA unveiled the existence of abundant very small RNAs (vsRNAs) shorter than 16 nt. These especially include tRNA fragments (tRFs) that are selectively loaded in OMVs and are predicted to target host mRNAs. Here, in Escherichia coli (E. coli), we report the existence of an abundant vsRNA, Ile-tRF-5X, which is selectively modulated by environmental stress, while remaining unaffected by inhibition of transcription or translation. Ile-tRF-5X is released through OMVs and can be transferred to human HCT116 cells, where it promoted MAP3K4 expression. Our findings provide a novel perspective and paradigm on the existing symbiosis between bacteria and human cells. We previously outlined by RNA-Sequencing (RNA-seq) the existence of abundant very small (<16 nt) bacterial and eukaryote RNA (vsRNA) population with potential regulatory functions. However, it is not exceptional to see vsRNA species removed from the RNA-seq libraries or datasets because being considered as random degradation products. As a proof of concept, we present in this study a 13 nt in length isoleucine tRNA-derived fragment (Ile-tRF-5X) which is selectively modulated by nutritional and thermal stress while remaining unaffected by transcription and translation inhibitions. We also showed that OMVs and their Ile-tRF-5X vsRNAs are delivered into human HCT116 cells and both can promote host cell gene expression and proliferation. Ile-tRF-5X appears to regulate gene silencing properties of miRNAs by competition. Our findings provide a novel perspective and paradigm on the existing symbiosis between hosts and bacteria but also brings a new insight of host-pathogen interactions mediated by tRFs which remain so far poorly characterized in bacteria.
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- Idrissa Diallo
- CHU de Québec-Université Laval Research Center/CHUL Pavilion, Department of Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
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- CHU de Québec-Université Laval Research Center/CHUL Pavilion, Department of Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
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- CHU de Québec-Université Laval Research Center/CHUL Pavilion, Department of Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
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- CHU de Québec-Université Laval Research Center/CHUL Pavilion, Department of Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
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- CHU de Québec-Université Laval Research Center/CHUL Pavilion, Department of Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
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- CRCHUS, RNA Group, Department of Biochemistry and Functional Genomics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
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- CRCHUS, RNA Group, Department of Biochemistry and Functional Genomics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
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- CHU de Québec-Université Laval Research Center/CHUL Pavilion, Department of Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
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Jha T, Mendel J, Cho H, Choudhary M. Prediction of Bacterial sRNAs Using Sequence-Derived Features and Machine Learning. Bioinform Biol Insights 2022; 16:11779322221118335. [PMID: 36016866 PMCID: PMC9397377 DOI: 10.1177/11779322221118335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2022] [Accepted: 07/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Small ribonucleic acid (sRNA) sequences are 50–500 nucleotide long, noncoding RNA (ncRNA) sequences that play an important role in regulating transcription and translation within a bacterial cell. As such, identifying sRNA sequences within an organism’s genome is essential to understand the impact of the RNA molecules on cellular processes. Recently, numerous machine learning models have been applied to predict sRNAs within bacterial genomes. In this study, we considered the sRNA prediction as an imbalanced binary classification problem to distinguish minor positive sRNAs from major negative ones within imbalanced data and then performed a comparative study with six learning algorithms and seven assessment metrics. First, we collected numerical feature groups extracted from known sRNAs previously identified in Salmonella typhimurium LT2 (SLT2) and Escherichia coli K12 (E. coli K12) genomes. Second, as a preliminary study, we characterized the sRNA-size distribution with the conformity test for Benford’s law. Third, we applied six traditional classification algorithms to sRNA features and assessed classification performance with seven metrics, varying positive-to-negative instance ratios, and utilizing stratified 10-fold cross-validation. We revisited important individual features and feature groups and found that classification with combined features perform better than with either an individual feature or a single feature group in terms of Area Under Precision-Recall curve (AUPR). We reconfirmed that AUPR properly measures classification performance on imbalanced data with varying imbalance ratios, which is consistent with previous studies on classification metrics for imbalanced data. Overall, eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), even without exploiting optimal hyperparameter values, performed better than the other five algorithms with specific optimal parameter settings. As a future work, we plan to extend XGBoost further to a large amount of published sRNAs in bacterial genomes and compare its classification performance with recent machine learning models’ performance.
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- Tony Jha
- Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, USA
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Sun H, Wang M, Liu Y, Wu P, Yao T, Yang W, Yang Q, Yan J, Yang B. Regulation of flagellar motility and biosynthesis in enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7. Gut Microbes 2022; 14:2110822. [PMID: 35971812 PMCID: PMC9387321 DOI: 10.1080/19490976.2022.2110822] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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ABSTARCTEnterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157:H7 is a human pathogen that causes a variety of diseases, such as hemorrhagic colitis and lethal hemolytic uremic syndrome. Flagellum-dependent motility plays diverse roles in the pathogenesis of EHEC O157:H7, including its migration to an optimal host site, adherence and colonization, survival at the infection site, and post-infection dispersal. However, it is very expensive for cellular economy in terms of the number of genes and the energy required for flagellar biosynthesis and functioning. Furthermore, the flagellar filament bears strong antigenic properties that induce a strong host immune response. Consequently, the flagellar gene expression and biosynthesis are highly regulated to occur at the appropriate time and place by different regulatory influences. The present review focuses on the regulatory mechanisms of EHEC O157:H7 motility and flagellar biosynthesis, especially in terms of flagellar gene regulation by environmental factors, regulatory proteins, and small regulatory RNAs.
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- Hongmin Sun
- TEDA Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, TEDA, Tianjin, China
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- TEDA Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, TEDA, Tianjin, China
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- TEDA Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, TEDA, Tianjin, China
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- TEDA Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, TEDA, Tianjin, China
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- TEDA Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, TEDA, Tianjin, China
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- TEDA Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, TEDA, Tianjin, China
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- TEDA Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, TEDA, Tianjin, China
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- TEDA Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, TEDA, Tianjin, China
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- TEDA Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, TEDA, Tianjin, China,CONTACT Bin Yang TEDA Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, TEDA, Tianjin300457, P. R. China
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Liu P, Yue C, Liu L, Gao C, Lyu Y, Deng S, Tian H, Jia X. The function of small RNA in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. PeerJ 2022; 10:e13738. [PMID: 35891650 PMCID: PMC9308961 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.13738] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2022] [Accepted: 06/25/2022] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the main conditional pathogen causing nosocomial infection, is a gram-negative bacterium with the largest genome among the known bacteria. The main reasons why Pseudomonas aeruginosa is prone to drug-resistant strains in clinic are: the drug-resistant genes in its genome and the drug resistance easily induced by single antibiotic treatment. With the development of high-throughput sequencing technology and bioinformatics, the functions of various small RNAs (sRNA) in Pseudomonas aeruginosa are being revealed. Different sRNAs regulate gene expression by binding to protein or mRNA to play an important role in the complex regulatory network. In this article, first, the importance and biological functions of different sRNAs in Pseudomonas aeruginosa are explored, and then the evidence and possibilities that sRNAs served as drug therapeutic targets are discussed, which may introduce new directions to develop novel disease treatment strategies.
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- Pei Liu
- Yan’an University, Key Laboratory of Microbial Drugs Innovation and Transformation, Yan’an, Shaanxi, China
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- Yan’an University, Key Laboratory of Microbial Drugs Innovation and Transformation, Yan’an, Shaanxi, China
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- Chengdu Medical College, Non-coding RNA and Drug Discovery Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- Yan’an University, Key Laboratory of Microbial Drugs Innovation and Transformation, Yan’an, Shaanxi, China
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- Yan’an University, Key Laboratory of Microbial Drugs Innovation and Transformation, Yan’an, Shaanxi, China
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- Chengdu Medical College, Non-coding RNA and Drug Discovery Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- Yan’an University, Key Laboratory of Microbial Drugs Innovation and Transformation, Yan’an, Shaanxi, China
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- Chengdu Medical College, Non-coding RNA and Drug Discovery Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu, Sichuan, China,School of Basic Medical Science, Chengdu Medical College, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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Brosse A, Boudry P, Walburger A, Magalon A, Guillier M. Synthesis of the NarP response regulator of nitrate respiration in Escherichia coli is regulated at multiple levels by Hfq and small RNAs. Nucleic Acids Res 2022; 50:6753-6768. [PMID: 35748881 PMCID: PMC9262595 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkac504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2022] [Revised: 05/25/2022] [Accepted: 05/30/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Two-component systems (TCS) and small RNAs (sRNA) are widespread regulators that participate in the response and the adaptation of bacteria to their environments. TCSs and sRNAs mostly act at the transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels, respectively, and can be found integrated in regulatory circuits, where TCSs control sRNAs transcription and/or sRNAs post-transcriptionally regulate TCSs synthesis. In response to nitrate and nitrite, the paralogous NarQ-NarP and NarX-NarL TCSs regulate the expression of genes involved in anaerobic respiration of these alternative electron acceptors to oxygen. In addition to the previously reported repression of NarP synthesis by the SdsN137 sRNA, we show here that RprA, another Hfq-dependent sRNA, also negatively controls narP. Interestingly, the repression of narP by RprA actually relies on two independent mechanisms of control. The first is via the direct pairing of the central region of RprA to the narP translation initiation region and presumably occurs at the translation initiation level. In contrast, the second requires only the very 5' end of the narP mRNA, which is targeted, most likely indirectly, by the full-length or the shorter, processed, form of RprA. In addition, our results raise the possibility of a direct role of Hfq in narP control, further illustrating the diversity of post-transcriptional regulation mechanisms in the synthesis of TCSs.
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- Anaïs Brosse
- UMR8261, CNRS, Université de Paris Cité, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, 75005Paris, France
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- UMR8261, CNRS, Université de Paris Cité, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, 75005Paris, France
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- Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie Bactérienne (UMR7283), IMM, IM2B, 13402Marseille, France
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- Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie Bactérienne (UMR7283), IMM, IM2B, 13402Marseille, France
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +33 01 58 41 51 49; Fax: +33 01 58 41 50 25;
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A Reverse Genetic Approach for Studying sRNAs in Chlamydia trachomatis. mBio 2022; 13:e0086422. [PMID: 35726915 PMCID: PMC9426522 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.00864-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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sRNAs are noncoding transcripts that play critical roles in posttranscriptional regulation in prokaryotes. In the intracellular bacterium Chlamydia, sRNAs have been identified, but functional studies have been limited to an E. coli heterologous system. We have developed an inducible sRNA overexpression system in Chlamydia trachomatis and used it to screen putative sRNAs for effects on the Chlamydia developmental cycle, which involves conversion between replicating (RB) and infectious (EB) chlamydial forms. Overexpression of 4 of 13 C. trachomatis sRNAs decreased production of infectious EBs. We performed detailed characterization of CtrR3 and CtrR7, the two sRNAs that caused the largest progeny defects in our screen. By quantifying chlamydial number and infectious progeny, and by visualizing chlamydial forms using electron microscopy, we showed that overexpression of CtrR3 prevented RB-to-EB conversion, whereas CtrR7 overexpression blocked bacterial replication. We also describe a workflow that allowed us to identify the mRNA targets of CtrR3 in Chlamydia. We first used MS2 aptamer affinity purification coupled with RNA sequencing as an unbiased approach to isolate interacting mRNAs. We then prioritized candidates based on sequence complementarity to the CtrR3 target recognition sequence, which we had identified with bioinformatic and mutational analyses. Finally, we tested putative targets with translational fusion assays in E. coli and C. trachomatis. Using this integrated approach, we provide experimental evidence that YtgB and CTL0389 are mRNA targets of CtrR3 in Chlamydia. These findings demonstrate how our C. trachomatis sRNA overexpression system can be used to investigate the functions and mRNA targets of chlamydial sRNAs.
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Diallo I, Ho J, Lalaouna D, Massé E, Provost P. RNA Sequencing Unveils Very Small RNAs With Potential Regulatory Functions in Bacteria. Front Mol Biosci 2022; 9:914991. [PMID: 35720117 PMCID: PMC9203972 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2022.914991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2022] [Accepted: 05/02/2022] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) is the gold standard for the discovery of small non-coding RNAs. Following a long-standing approach, reads shorter than 16 nucleotides (nt) are removed from the small RNA sequencing libraries or datasets. The serendipitous discovery of an eukaryotic 12 nt-long RNA species capable of modulating the microRNA from which they derive prompted us to challenge this dogma and, by expanding the window of RNA sizes down to 8 nt, to confirm the existence of functional very small RNAs (vsRNAs <16 nt). Here we report the detailed profiling of vsRNAs in Escherichia coli, E. coli-derived outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) and five other bacterial strains (Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA7, P. aeruginosa PAO1, Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium 14028S, Legionella pneumophila JR32 Philadelphia-1 and Staphylococcus aureus HG001). vsRNAs of 8–15 nt in length [RNAs (8-15 nt)] were found to be more abundant than RNAs of 16–30 nt in length [RNAs (16–30 nt)]. vsRNA biotypes were distinct and varied within and across bacterial species and accounted for one third of reads identified in the 8–30 nt window. The tRNA-derived fragments (tRFs) have appeared as a major biotype among the vsRNAs, notably Ile-tRF and Ala-tRF, and were selectively loaded in OMVs. tRF-derived vsRNAs appear to be thermodynamically stable with at least 2 G-C basepairs and stem-loop structure. The analyzed tRF-derived vsRNAs are predicted to target several human host mRNAs with diverse functions. Bacterial vsRNAs and OMV-derived vsRNAs could be novel players likely modulating the intricate relationship between pathogens and their hosts.
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- Idrissa Diallo
- CHU de Québec Research Center/CHUL Pavilion, Department of Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada
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- CHU de Québec Research Center/CHUL Pavilion, Department of Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada
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- CRCHUS, RNA Group, Department of Biochemistry and Functional Genomics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
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- CRCHUS, RNA Group, Department of Biochemistry and Functional Genomics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
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- CHU de Québec Research Center/CHUL Pavilion, Department of Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada
- *Correspondence: Patrick Provost,
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Cengher L, Manna AC, Cho J, Theprungsirikul J, Sessions K, Rigby W, Cheung AL. Regulation of neutrophil myeloperoxidase inhibitor SPIN by the small RNA Teg49 in Staphylococcus aureus. Mol Microbiol 2022; 117:1447-1463. [PMID: 35578788 PMCID: PMC9880452 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.14919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2022] [Revised: 05/04/2022] [Accepted: 05/11/2022] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Teg49 is a Staphylococcus aureus trans-acting regulatory sRNA derived from cleavage of the sarA P3 transcript. We showed by RNA-Seq here that the 5' trident-like structure in Teg49 regulates transcriptionally (direct and indirect) 22 genes distinct from sarA. Among these, Teg49 was noted to repress spn, encoding a 102 residue preprotein which yields the mature 73 residue peptide which inhibits the catalytic activity of myeloperoxidase in human neutrophils. Teg49 was found to regulate spn mRNA post-transcriptionally in strain SH1000 through 9-nt base-pairing between hairpin loop 2 of Teg49 and an exposed bulge of the spn mRNA. Mutations of the Teg49 binding site disrupted the repression of spn, leading to reduced degradation, and increased half-life of spn mRNA in the Teg49 mutant. The spn-Teg49 interaction was also confirmed with a synonymous spn mutation to yield enhanced spn expression in the mutant vs. the parent. The Teg49 mutant with increased spn expression exhibited enhanced resistance to MPO activity in vitro. Killing assays with human neutrophils showed that the Teg49 mutant was more resistant to killing after phagocytosis. Altogether, this study shows that Teg49 in S. aureus has a distinct and important regulatory profile whereby this sRNA modulates resistance to myeloperoxidase-mediated killing by human neutrophils.
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- Liviu Cengher
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine Dartmouth College Hanover New Hampshire USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine Dartmouth College Hanover New Hampshire USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine Dartmouth College Hanover New Hampshire USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine Dartmouth College Hanover New Hampshire USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine Dartmouth College Hanover New Hampshire USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine Dartmouth College Hanover New Hampshire USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine Dartmouth College Hanover New Hampshire USA
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A Sporulation-Specific sRNA Bvs196 Contributing to the Developing Spore in Bacillus velezensis. Microorganisms 2022; 10:microorganisms10051015. [PMID: 35630459 PMCID: PMC9147052 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms10051015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2022] [Revised: 05/07/2022] [Accepted: 05/11/2022] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Many putative sRNAs have been characterized using bioinformatic analysis and high-throughput sequencing in Gram-positive Bacillus strains, but there are only a few functional studies on the sRNAs involved in the spore formation developmental process. In particular, there is no sRNA confirmed experimentally to regulate the late stages of sporulation. Bvs196 is an sRNA with a length of 294 nucleotides that is abundantly expressed in the stationary phase of several media and independently transcribed in Bacillus velezensis strain PEBA20, as validated by RNA-seq and Northern blot,. It is also confirmed, by qRT-PCR, that Bvs196 is transcribed abundantly throughout the intermediate and late stages of sporulation. Using the gfpmut3a gene transcriptional reporter demonstrates that Bvs196 is expressed specifically in the forespore during sporulation and controlled by σF and σG (mainly by σG). This was observed by fluorescence microscopy and multi-function microplate reader. Further evolutionary conservation analysis found that Bvs196 is widely present in Bacillus with a strongly conserved and stable secondary structure. Resistance phenotypic assays of spores formed from the Bvs196 deletion mutant, the overexpressed Bvs196 mutant, and the wild-type strain revealed that the absence of Bvs196 led to reduced heat and UV resistance and enhanced formaldehyde resistance. We determined, by MST analysis, that Bvs196 can directly interact with spo0A and sspN-tlp mRNAs in vitro, and that short incomplete complementary paired bases affect the binding affinity of Bvs196 to target mRNAs. Our results suggest that Bvs196 is a novel sporulation-specific sRNA of B. velezensis, 294 nt in length, independently transcribed under the control of σF and σG in the forespore during sporulation, and that it affects spore resistance, and is able to directly interact with spo0A and sspN-tlp mRNAs. The remarkable conservation and impressive expression level of Bvs196 imply that it acts as an important conservative regulator, presumably by interacting with many other unknown targets in the forespore, and therefore contributing to spore properties. This work provides new clues for further understanding of the spore formation regulatory network.
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Boutet E, Djerroud S, Perreault J. Small RNAs beyond Model Organisms: Have We Only Scratched the Surface? Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23084448. [PMID: 35457265 PMCID: PMC9029176 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23084448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2022] [Revised: 04/14/2022] [Accepted: 04/15/2022] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Small RNAs (sRNAs) are essential regulators in the adaptation of bacteria to environmental changes and act by binding targeted mRNAs through base complementarity. Approximately 550 distinct families of sRNAs have been identified since their initial characterization in the 1980s, accelerated by the emergence of RNA-sequencing. Small RNAs are found in a wide range of bacterial phyla, but they are more prominent in highly researched model organisms compared to the rest of the sequenced bacteria. Indeed, Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica contain the highest number of sRNAs, with 98 and 118, respectively, with Enterobacteriaceae encoding 145 distinct sRNAs, while other bacteria families have only seven sRNAs on average. Although the past years brought major advances in research on sRNAs, we have perhaps only scratched the surface, even more so considering RNA annotations trail behind gene annotations. A distinctive trend can be observed for genes, whereby their number increases with genome size, but this is not observable for RNAs, although they would be expected to follow the same trend. In this perspective, we aimed at establishing a more accurate representation of the occurrence of sRNAs in bacteria, emphasizing the potential for novel sRNA discoveries.
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The emerging role of bacterial regulatory RNAs in disease. Trends Microbiol 2022; 30:959-972. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2022.03.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2021] [Revised: 03/02/2022] [Accepted: 03/09/2022] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Zhou J, Zhao H, Yang H, He C, Shu W, Cui Z, Liu Q. Insights Into the Impact of Small RNA SprC on the Metabolism and Virulence of Staphylococcus aureus. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2022; 12:746746. [PMID: 35281456 PMCID: PMC8905650 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2022.746746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2021] [Accepted: 01/31/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Aim Our previous proteomic analysis showed that small RNA SprC (one of the small pathogenicity island RNAs) of Staphylococcus aureus possesses the ability to regulate the expression of multiple bacterial proteins. In this study, our objective was to further provide insights into the regulatory role of SprC in gene transcription and metabolism of S. aureus. Methods Gene expression profiles were obtained from S. aureus N315 wild-type and its sprC deletion mutant strains by RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq), and differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were screened by R language with a |log2(fold change)| ≥1 and a false discovery rate (FDR) ≤ 0.05. Gene Ontology (GO) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathway analysis were carried out to understand the significance of the DEGs. The quality of RNA-seq was further verified by quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR), mRNA target prediction, metabolomics analysis and transcript-level expression analysis of genes of sprC complementation strain. Results A total of 2497 transcripts were identified, of which 60 transcripts expressions in sprC knockout strain were significantly different (37 up-regulated and 23 down-regulated DEGs). GO analysis showed that the functions of these DEGs were mainly concentrated in the biological process and molecular function related to metabolism and pathogenesis, and a higher number of genes were involved in the oxidation-reduction process, catalytic activity and binding. KEGG pathways enrichment analysis demonstrated that metabolism and pathogenesis were the most affected pathways, such as metabolic pathways, biosynthesis of secondary metabolites, purine metabolism, fructose and mannose metabolism and S. aureus infection. The qRT-PCR results of the DEGs with defined functions in the sprC deletion and complementation strains were in general agreement with those obtained by RNA-seq. Metabolomics analysis revealed 77 specific pathways involving metabolic pathways. Among them, many, such as metabolic pathways, biosynthesis of secondary metabolites and purine metabolism, were consistent with those enriched in the RNA-seq analysis. Conclusion This study offered valuable and reliable information about the regulatory roles of SprC in S. aureus biology through transcriptomics and metabolomics analysis. These results may provide clues for new potential targets for anti-virulence adjuvant therapy on S. aureus infection.
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- Jingwen Zhou
- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Obstetrics and Gynaecology Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- The Shanghai Key Laboratory of Female Reproductive Endocrine-Related Diseases, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Shanghai Municipal Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China
- *Correspondence: Qingzhong Liu,
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Charbonnier M, González-Espinoza G, Kehl-Fie TE, Lalaouna D. Battle for Metals: Regulatory RNAs at the Front Line. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2022; 12:952948. [PMID: 35865816 PMCID: PMC9294342 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2022.952948] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2022] [Accepted: 06/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Metal such as iron, zinc, manganese, and nickel are essential elements for bacteria. These nutrients are required in crucial structural and catalytic roles in biological processes, including precursor biosynthesis, DNA replication, transcription, respiration, and oxidative stress responses. While essential, in excess these nutrients can also be toxic. The immune system leverages both of these facets, to limit bacterial proliferation and combat invaders. Metal binding immune proteins reduce the bioavailability of metals at the infection sites starving intruders, while immune cells intoxicate pathogens by providing metals in excess leading to enzyme mismetallation and/or reactive oxygen species generation. In this dynamic metal environment, maintaining metal homeostasis is a critical process that must be precisely coordinated. To achieve this, bacteria utilize diverse metal uptake and efflux systems controlled by metalloregulatory proteins. Recently, small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) have been revealed to be critical post-transcriptional regulators, working in conjunction with transcription factors to promote rapid adaptation and to fine-tune bacterial adaptation to metal abundance. In this mini review, we discuss the expanding role for sRNAs in iron homeostasis, but also in orchestrating adaptation to the availability of other metals like manganese and nickel. Furthermore, we describe the sRNA-mediated interdependency between metal homeostasis and oxidative stress responses, and how regulatory networks controlled by sRNAs contribute to survival and virulence.
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- Mathilde Charbonnier
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN, UPR9002, Strasbourg, France
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL, United States.,Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL, United States
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN, UPR9002, Strasbourg, France
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Minshall N, Chernukhin I, Carroll JS, Git A. ncRNAseq: simple modifications to RNA-seq library preparation allow recovery and analysis of mid-sized non-coding RNAs. Biotechniques 2022; 72:21-28. [PMID: 34841883 DOI: 10.2144/btn-2021-0035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Despite their abundance, mid-sized RNAs (30-300 nt) have not been extensively studied by high-throughput sequencing, mostly due to selective loss in library preparation. The authors propose simple and inexpensive modifications to the Illumina TruSeq protocol (ncRNAseq), allowing the capture and sequencing of mid-sized non-coding RNAs without detriment to the coverage of coding mRNAs. This protocol is coupled with a two-step alignment: a pre-alignment to a curated non-coding genome, passing only the non-mapping reads to a standard genomic alignment. ncRNAseq correctly assigns the highest read-numbers to established abundant non-coding RNAs and correctly identifies cytosolic and nuclear enrichment of known non-coding RNAs in two cell lines.
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- Nicola Minshall
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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Stiens J, Arnvig KB, Kendall SL, Nobeli I. Challenges in defining the functional, non-coding, expressed genome of members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. Mol Microbiol 2021; 117:20-31. [PMID: 34894010 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.14862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2021] [Revised: 12/08/2021] [Accepted: 12/09/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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A definitive transcriptome atlas for the non-coding expressed elements of the members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) does not exist. Incomplete lists of non-coding transcripts can be obtained for some of the reference genomes (e.g., M. tuberculosis H37Rv) but to what extent these transcripts have homologues in closely related species or even strains is not clear. This has implications for the analysis of transcriptomic data; non-coding parts of the transcriptome are often ignored in the absence of formal, reliable annotation. Here, we review the state of our knowledge of non-coding RNAs in pathogenic mycobacteria, emphasizing the disparities in the information included in commonly used databases. We then proceed to review ways of combining computational solutions for predicting the non-coding transcriptome with experiments that can help refine and confirm these predictions.
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- Jennifer Stiens
- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Biological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Division of Biosciences, University College London, London, UK
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- Centre for Emerging, Endemic and Exotic Diseases, Pathobiology and Population Sciences, Royal Veterinary College, Hatfield, UK
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Biological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK
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Abram F, Arcari T, Guerreiro D, O'Byrne CP. Evolutionary trade-offs between growth and survival: The delicate balance between reproductive success and longevity in bacteria. Adv Microb Physiol 2021; 79:133-162. [PMID: 34836610 DOI: 10.1016/bs.ampbs.2021.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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All living cells strive to allocate cellular resources in a way that promotes maximal evolutionary fitness. While there are many competing demands for resources the main decision making process centres on whether to proceed with growth and reproduction or to "hunker down" and invest in protection and survival (or to strike an optimal balance between these two processes). The transcriptional programme active at any given time largely determines which of these competing processes is dominant. At the top of the regulatory hierarchy are the sigma factors that commandeer the transcriptional machinery and determine which set of promoters are active at any given time. The regulatory inputs controlling their activity are therefore often highly complex, with multiple layers of regulation, allowing relevant environmental information to produce the most beneficial response. The tension between growth and survival is also evident in the developmental programme necessary to promote biofilm formation, which is typically associated with low growth rates and enhanced long-term survival. Nucleotide second messengers and energy pools (ATP/ADP levels) play critical roles in determining the fate of individual cells. Regulatory small RNAs frequently play important roles in the decision making processes too. In this review we discuss the trade-off that exists between reproduction and persistence in bacteria and discuss some of the recent advances in this fascinating field.
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- Florence Abram
- Microbiology & Ryan Institute, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
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- Microbiology & Ryan Institute, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
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- Microbiology & Ryan Institute, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
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- Microbiology & Ryan Institute, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland.
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Chen Y, Zhai W, Zhang K, Liu H, Zhu T, Su L, Bermudez L, Chen H, Guo A. Small RNA Profiling in Mycobacterium Provides Insights Into Stress Adaptability. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:752537. [PMID: 34803973 PMCID: PMC8600241 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.752537] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2021] [Accepted: 10/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Mycobacteria encounter a number of environmental changes during infection and respond using different mechanisms. Small RNA (sRNA) is a post-transcriptionally regulatory system for gene functions and has been investigated in many other bacteria. This study used Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium bovis Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) infection models and sequenced whole bacterial RNAs before and after host cell infection. A comparison of differentially expressed sRNAs using Gene Ontology (GO) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) and target prediction was carried out. Six pathogenically relevant stress conditions, growth rate, and morphology were used to screen and identify sRNAs. From these data, a subset of sRNAs was differentially expressed in multiple infection groups and stress conditions. Many were found associated with lipid metabolism. Among them, ncBCG427 was significantly downregulated when BCG entered into macrophages and was associated with increased biofilm formation. The reduction of virulence possibility depends on regulating lipid metabolism.
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- Yingyu Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China.,National Animal Tuberculosis Para-Reference Laboratory (Wuhan) of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China.,National Animal Tuberculosis Para-Reference Laboratory (Wuhan) of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China.,National Animal Tuberculosis Para-Reference Laboratory (Wuhan) of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China.,National Animal Tuberculosis Para-Reference Laboratory (Wuhan) of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China.,National Animal Tuberculosis Para-Reference Laboratory (Wuhan) of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China.,National Animal Tuberculosis Para-Reference Laboratory (Wuhan) of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China.,National Animal Tuberculosis Para-Reference Laboratory (Wuhan) of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China.,National Animal Tuberculosis Para-Reference Laboratory (Wuhan) of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
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Nagy I, Szabó M, Hegyi A, Kiss J. Salmonella Genomic Island 1 requires a self-encoded small RNA for mobilization. Mol Microbiol 2021; 116:1533-1551. [PMID: 34784078 PMCID: PMC9299015 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.14846] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2021] [Revised: 10/08/2021] [Accepted: 11/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The SGI1-family elements that are specifically mobilized by the IncA- and IncC-family plasmids are important vehicles of antibiotic resistance among enteric bacteria. Although SGI1 exploits many plasmid-derived conjugation and regulatory functions, the basic mobilization module of the island is unrelated to that of IncC plasmids. This module contains the oriT and encodes the mobilization proteins MpsA and MpsB, which belong to the tyrosine recombinases and not to relaxases. Here we report an additional, essential transfer factor of SGI1. This is a small RNA deriving from the 3'-end of a primary RNA that can also serve as mRNA of ORF S022. The functional domain of this sRNA named sgm-sRNA is encoded between the mpsA gene and the oriT of SGI1. Terminator-like sequence near the promoter of the primary transcript possibly has a regulatory function in controlling the amount of full-length primary RNA, which is converted to the active sgm-sRNA through consecutive maturation steps influenced by the 5'-end of the primary RNA. The mobilization module of SGI1 seems unique due to its atypical relaxase and the newly identified sgm-sRNA, which is required for the horizontal transfer of the island but appears to act differently from classical regulatory sRNAs.
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- István Nagy
- Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Gödöllő, Hungary
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- Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Gödöllő, Hungary
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- Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Gödöllő, Hungary
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- Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Gödöllő, Hungary
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Ul Haq I, Brantl S, Müller P. A new role for SR1 from Bacillus subtilis: regulation of sporulation by inhibition of kinA translation. Nucleic Acids Res 2021; 49:10589-10603. [PMID: 34478554 PMCID: PMC8501984 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkab747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2021] [Revised: 07/27/2021] [Accepted: 08/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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SR1 is a dual-function sRNA from Bacillus subtilis. It inhibits translation initiation of ahrC mRNA encoding the transcription activator of the arginine catabolic operons. Base-pairing is promoted by the RNA chaperone CsrA, which induces a slight structural change in the ahrC mRNA to facilitate SR1 binding. Additionally, SR1 encodes the small protein SR1P that interacts with glyceraldehyde-3P dehydrogenase A to promote binding to RNase J1 and enhancing J1 activity. Here, we describe a new target of SR1, kinA mRNA encoding the major histidine kinase of the sporulation phosphorelay. SR1 and kinA mRNA share 7 complementary regions. Base-pairing between SR1 and kinA mRNA decreases kinA translation without affecting kinA mRNA stability and represses transcription of the KinA/Spo0A downstream targets spoIIE, spoIIGA and cotA. The initial interaction between SR1 and kinA mRNA occurs 10 nt downstream of the kinA start codon and is decisive for inhibition. The sr1 encoded peptide SR1P is dispensable for kinA regulation. Deletion of sr1 accelerates sporulation resulting in low quality spores with reduced stress resistance and altered coat protein composition which can be compensated by sr1 overexpression. Neither CsrA nor Hfq influence sporulation or spore properties.
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- Inam Ul Haq
- Matthias-Schleiden-Institut für Genetik, Bioinformatik und Molekulare Botanik, AG Bakteriengenetik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Philosophenweg 12, Jena D-07743, Germany
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- Matthias-Schleiden-Institut für Genetik, Bioinformatik und Molekulare Botanik, AG Bakteriengenetik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Philosophenweg 12, Jena D-07743, Germany
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- Matthias-Schleiden-Institut für Genetik, Bioinformatik und Molekulare Botanik, AG Bakteriengenetik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Philosophenweg 12, Jena D-07743, Germany
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Tishchenko SV, Mikhailina AO, Lekontseva NV, Stolboushkina EA, Nikonova EY, Nikonov OS, Nikulin AD. Structural Investigations of RNA–Protein Complexes in Post-Ribosomal Era. CRYSTALLOGR REP+ 2021. [DOI: 10.1134/s1063774521050217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Structural studies of RNA–protein complexes are important for understanding many molecular mechanisms occurring in cells (e.g., regulation of protein synthesis and RNA-chaperone activity of proteins). Various objects investigated at the Institute of Protein Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences are considered. Based on the analysis of the structures of the complexes of the ribosomal protein L1 with specific regions on both mRNA and rRNA, the principles of regulation of the translation of the mRNA of its own operon are presented. The studies of the heterotrimeric translation initiation factor IF2 of archaea and eukaryotes are described, and the data on the interaction of glycyl-tRNA-synthetase with viral IRES are reported. The results of studying the interaction of RNA molecules with one of functionally important sites of the Hfq protein are presented, and the differences in the RNA-binding properties of the Hfq and archaeal Lsm proteins are revealed.
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Chen D, Chen S, Zhao C, Yan J, Ma Z, Zhao X, Wang Z, Wang X, Wang H. Screening and functional identification of antioxidant microRNA-size sRNAs from Spirulina platensis using high-throughput sequencing. FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY : FPB 2021; 48:973-983. [PMID: 34112312 DOI: 10.1071/fp20405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2020] [Accepted: 05/21/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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MiRNA-size small RNAs, abbreviated as sRNAs, are increasingly being discovered as research progresses and omics technologies development in prokaryotes. However, there is a paucity of data concerning whether or not sRNAs exist in cyanobacteria and regulate the resistance to oxidative stress. In this investigation, small RNA libraries were constructed from the control, 50-nM and 100-nM H2O2 treatments of Spirulina platensis. By high-throughput sequencing, 23 candidate sRNAs showed significantly differential expression under oxidative stress, among which eight sRNAs were identified with the similar expression patterns as the sequencing results by real-time qPCR. By nucleic acid hybridisation, the corresponding expression changes also demonstrated that sequencing results of sRNAs were feasible and credible. By bioinformatics prediction and structure identification, 43 target genes were predicted for 8 sRNAs in plant miRNA database, among which 29 were annotated into the genome and related metabolic pathways of S. platensis. By COG functional classification and KEGG pathway analysis, 31 target genes were predicted to be directly or indirectly involved in the defence mechanism of H2O2 stress. Thirteen target genes displayed reversely changing patterns compared with those of their sRNAs under H2O2 treatment. These findings provide compelling evidence that these sRNAs in S. platensis play a crucial role in oxidative stress responses, and thus provide a theoretical reference for improving the stress-triggering physiological regulation.
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- Dechao Chen
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215004, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215004, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215004, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215004, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215004, China
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- School of Life Science, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325035, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215004, China; and School of Life Science, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325035, China; and Corresponding authors. ;
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- School of Life Science, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325035, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215004, China; and Corresponding authors. ;
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Felden B, Augagneur Y. Diversity and Versatility in Small RNA-Mediated Regulation in Bacterial Pathogens. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:719977. [PMID: 34447363 PMCID: PMC8383071 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.719977] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2021] [Accepted: 07/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Bacterial gene expression is under the control of a large set of molecules acting at multiple levels. In addition to the transcription factors (TFs) already known to be involved in global regulation of gene expression, small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) are emerging as major players in gene regulatory networks, where they allow environmental adaptation and fitness. Developments in high-throughput screening have enabled their detection in the entire bacterial kingdom. These sRNAs influence a plethora of biological processes, including but not limited to outer membrane synthesis, metabolism, TF regulation, transcription termination, virulence, and antibiotic resistance and persistence. Almost always noncoding, they regulate target genes at the post-transcriptional level, usually through base-pair interactions with mRNAs, alone or with the help of dedicated chaperones. There is growing evidence that sRNA-mediated mechanisms of actions are far more diverse than initially thought, and that they go beyond the so-called cis- and trans-encoded classifications. These molecules can be derived and processed from 5' untranslated regions (UTRs), coding or non-coding sequences, and even from 3' UTRs. They usually act within the bacterial cytoplasm, but recent studies showed sRNAs in extracellular vesicles, where they influence host cell interactions. In this review, we highlight the various functions of sRNAs in bacterial pathogens, and focus on the increasing examples of widely diverse regulatory mechanisms that might compel us to reconsider what constitute the sRNA.
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- Brice Felden
- Inserm, Bacterial Regulatory RNAs and Medicine (BRM) - UMR_S 1230, Rennes, France
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- Inserm, Bacterial Regulatory RNAs and Medicine (BRM) - UMR_S 1230, Rennes, France
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