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Walukiewicz HE, Farris Y, Burnet MC, Feid SC, You Y, Kim H, Bank T, Christensen D, Payne SH, Wolfe AJ, Rao CV, Nakayasu ES. Regulation of bacterial stringent response by an evolutionarily conserved ribosomal protein L11 methylation. mBio 2024:e0177324. [PMID: 39189746 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.01773-24] [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: 06/17/2024] [Accepted: 07/22/2024] [Indexed: 08/28/2024] Open
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Lysine and arginine methylation is an important regulator of enzyme activity and transcription in eukaryotes. However, little is known about this covalent modification in bacteria. In this work, we investigated the role of methylation in bacteria. By reanalyzing a large phyloproteomics data set from 48 bacterial strains representing six phyla, we found that almost a quarter of the bacterial proteome is methylated. Many of these methylated proteins are conserved across diverse bacterial lineages, including those involved in central carbon metabolism and translation. Among the proteins with the most conserved methylation sites is ribosomal protein L11 (bL11). bL11 methylation has been a mystery for five decades, as the deletion of its methyltransferase PrmA causes no cell growth defects. Comparative proteomics analysis combined with inorganic polyphosphate and guanosine tetra/pentaphosphate assays of the ΔprmA mutant in Escherichia coli revealed that bL11 methylation is important for stringent response signaling. In the stationary phase, we found that the ΔprmA mutant has impaired guanosine tetra/pentaphosphate production. This leads to a reduction in inorganic polyphosphate levels, accumulation of RNA and ribosomal proteins, and an abnormal polysome profile. Overall, our investigation demonstrates that the evolutionarily conserved bL11 methylation is important for stringent response signaling and ribosomal activity regulation and turnover. IMPORTANCE Protein methylation in bacteria was first identified over 60 years ago. Since then, its functional role has been identified for only a few proteins. To better understand the functional role of methylation in bacteria, we analyzed a large phyloproteomics data set encompassing 48 diverse bacteria. Our analysis revealed that ribosomal proteins are often methylated at conserved residues, suggesting that methylation of these sites may have a functional role in translation. Further analysis revealed that methylation of ribosomal protein L11 is important for stringent response signaling and ribosomal homeostasis.
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- Hanna E Walukiewicz
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stritch School of Medicine, Health Sciences Division, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, Illinois, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stritch School of Medicine, Health Sciences Division, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stritch School of Medicine, Health Sciences Division, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stritch School of Medicine, Health Sciences Division, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA
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Watanabe T, Kimura Y, Umeno D. Systematic promoter design for plasmid-encoded S-adenosylmethionine sensing systems. J GEN APPL MICROBIOL 2024; 70:n/a. [PMID: 38281753 DOI: 10.2323/jgam.2024.01.002] [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: 01/30/2024]
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S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) is an important biomolecule that mainly acts as a methyl donor and plays many roles in a variety of biological functions. SAM is also required for the biosynthesis of valuable methylated compounds, but its supply is a bottleneck for these biosynthetic pathways. To overcome this bottleneck and to reconfigure SAM homeostasis, a high-throughput sensing system for changes in intracellular SAM availability is required. We constructed a plasmid that can detect the factors that can alter SAM availability using minimal components. It does so by placing a fluorescent protein under a promoter controlled by endogenous MetJ, a transcription factor that represses its own regulons upon binding with SAM. Next, to validate SAM-responsive behavior, we systematically reconstructed 10 synthetic promoters with different positions and with different number of metbox sites. We found that a position between the -35 box and the -10 box was the most effective for repression and that this setup was suitable for detecting the genetic or environmental factors that can deplete and recover the intracellular SAM availability. Overall, the response patterns of the synthetic MetJ-regulated promoters characterized in this study may be useful for the development of better SAM biosensing systems.
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- Taro Watanabe
- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science, and Engineering, Waseda University
- Kirin Central Research Institute, Kirin Holdings Company, Limited
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science, and Engineering, Waseda University
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science, and Engineering, Waseda University
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Villalba de la Peña M, Kronholm I. Antimicrobial resistance in the wild: Insights from epigenetics. Evol Appl 2024; 17:e13707. [PMID: 38817397 PMCID: PMC11134192 DOI: 10.1111/eva.13707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2023] [Revised: 03/04/2024] [Accepted: 04/26/2024] [Indexed: 06/01/2024] Open
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Spreading of bacterial and fungal strains that are resistant to antimicrobials poses a serious threat to the well-being of humans, animals, and plants. Antimicrobial resistance has been mainly investigated in clinical settings. However, throughout their evolutionary history microorganisms in the wild have encountered antimicrobial substances, forcing them to evolve strategies to combat antimicrobial action. It is well known that many of these strategies are based on genetic mechanisms, but these do not fully explain important aspects of the antimicrobial response such as the rapid development of resistance, reversible phenotypes, and hetero-resistance. Consequently, attention has turned toward epigenetic pathways that may offer additional insights into antimicrobial mechanisms. The aim of this review is to explore the epigenetic mechanisms that confer antimicrobial resistance, focusing on those that might be relevant for resistance in the wild. First, we examine the presence of antimicrobials in natural settings. Then we describe the documented epigenetic mechanisms in bacteria and fungi associated with antimicrobial resistance and discuss innovative epigenetic editing techniques to establish causality in this context. Finally, we discuss the relevance of these epigenetic mechanisms on the evolutionary dynamics of antimicrobial resistance in the wild, emphasizing the critical role of priming in the adaptation process. We underscore the necessity of incorporating non-genetic mechanisms into our understanding of antimicrobial resistance evolution. These mechanisms offer invaluable insights into the dynamics of antimicrobial adaptation within natural ecosystems.
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- Department of Biological and Environmental ScienceUniversity of JyväskyläJyväskyläFinland
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Vill AC, Rice EJ, De Vlaminck I, Danko CG, Brito IL. Precision run-on sequencing (PRO-seq) for microbiome transcriptomics. Nat Microbiol 2024; 9:241-250. [PMID: 38172625 PMCID: PMC11059318 DOI: 10.1038/s41564-023-01558-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2022] [Accepted: 11/14/2023] [Indexed: 01/05/2024]
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Bacteria respond to environmental stimuli through precise regulation of transcription initiation and elongation. Bulk RNA sequencing primarily characterizes mature transcripts, so to identify actively transcribed loci we need to capture RNA polymerase (RNAP) complexed with nascent RNA. However, such capture methods have only previously been applied to culturable, genetically tractable organisms such as E. coli and B. subtilis. Here we apply precision run-on sequencing (PRO-seq) to profile nascent transcription in cultured E. coli and diverse uncultured bacteria. We demonstrate that PRO-seq can characterize the transcription of small, structured, or post-transcriptionally modified RNAs, which are often absent from bulk RNA-seq libraries. Applying PRO-seq to the human microbiome highlights taxon-specific RNAP pause motifs and pause-site distributions across non-coding RNA loci that reflect structure-coincident pausing. We also uncover concurrent transcription and cleavage of CRISPR guide RNAs and transfer RNAs. We demonstrate the utility of PRO-seq for exploring transcriptional dynamics in diverse microbial communities.
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- Albert C Vill
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Baker Institute for Animal Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Baker Institute for Animal Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
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Vignon M, Bastide A, Attina A, David A, Bousquet P, Orti V, Vialaret J, Lehmann S, Periere DD, Hirtz C. Multiplexed LC-MS/MS quantification of salivary RNA modifications in periodontitis. J Periodontal Res 2023; 58:959-967. [PMID: 37349891 DOI: 10.1111/jre.13155] [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] [Received: 03/22/2023] [Revised: 05/24/2023] [Accepted: 06/13/2023] [Indexed: 06/24/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To analyse the salivary epitranscriptomic profiles as periodontitis biomarkers using multiplexed mass spectrometry (MS). BACKGROUND The field of epitranscriptomics, which relates to RNA chemical modifications, opens new perspectives in the discovery of diagnostic biomarkers, especially in periodontitis. Recently, the modified ribonucleoside N6-methyladenosine (m6A) was revealed as a crucial player in the etiopathogenesis of periodontitis. However, no epitranscriptomic biomarker has been identified in saliva to date. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty-four saliva samples were collected from periodontitis patients (n = 16) and from control subjects (n = 8). Periodontitis patients were stratified according to stage and grade. Salivary nucleosides were directly extracted and, in parallel, salivary RNA was digested into its constituent nucleosides. Nucleoside samples were then quantified by multiplexed MS. RESULTS Twenty-seven free nucleosides were detected and an overlapping set of 12 nucleotides were detected in digested RNA. Among the free nucleosides, cytidine and three other modified nucleosides (inosine, queuosine and m6Am) were significantly altered in periodontitis patients. In digested RNA, only uridine was significantly higher in periodontitis patients. Importantly there was no correlation between free salivary nucleoside levels and the levels of those same nucleotides in digested salivary RNA, except for cytidine, m5C and uridine. This statement implies that the two detection methods are complementary. CONCLUSION The high specificity and sensitivity of MS allowed the detection and quantification of multiple nucleosides from RNA and free nucleosides in saliva. Some ribonucleosides appear to be promising biomarkers of periodontitis. Our analytic pipeline opens new perspectives for diagnostic periodontitis biomarkers.
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- Margaux Vignon
- Department of Periodontology, Dental Faculty, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- INM, University of Montpellier, INSERM, Montpellier, France
- LBPC-PPC, University of Montpellier, CHU Montpellier, INM INSERM, Montpellier, France
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- LBPC-PPC, University of Montpellier, CHU Montpellier, INM INSERM, Montpellier, France
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- Department of Periodontology, Dental Faculty, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- Department of Periodontology, Dental Faculty, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- INM, University of Montpellier, INSERM, Montpellier, France
- LBPC-PPC, University of Montpellier, CHU Montpellier, INM INSERM, Montpellier, France
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- INM, University of Montpellier, INSERM, Montpellier, France
- LBPC-PPC, University of Montpellier, CHU Montpellier, INM INSERM, Montpellier, France
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- INM, University of Montpellier, INSERM, Montpellier, France
- LBPC-PPC, University of Montpellier, CHU Montpellier, INM INSERM, Montpellier, France
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Liu W, Su F, Gao K, Chen D, Li Z. Double blocking gap-filling-ligation coupled with cascade isothermal amplification for ultrasensitive quantification of N6-methyladenosine. Chem Commun (Camb) 2023; 59:10769-10772. [PMID: 37592916 DOI: 10.1039/d3cc03098a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/19/2023]
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We developed a method for quantifying N6-methyladenosine at one-nucleotide resolution based on double blocking gap-filling-ligation and cascade isothermal amplification. This proposed method can detect as low as 1 fM target RNA, achieving selectivity up to approximately 100-fold between m6A and A, and has been successfully applied to the analysis of m6A at specific sites in cell samples.
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- Weiliang Liu
- Beijing Key Laboratory for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology, School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, 30 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100083, P. R. China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology, School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, 30 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100083, P. R. China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology, School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, 30 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100083, P. R. China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology, School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, 30 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100083, P. R. China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology, School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, 30 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100083, P. R. China
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Broglia L, Le Rhun A, Charpentier E. Methodologies for bacterial ribonuclease characterization using RNA-seq. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2023; 47:fuad049. [PMID: 37656885 PMCID: PMC10503654 DOI: 10.1093/femsre/fuad049] [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: 03/23/2023] [Revised: 08/06/2023] [Accepted: 08/23/2023] [Indexed: 09/03/2023] Open
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Bacteria adjust gene expression at the post-transcriptional level through an intricate network of small regulatory RNAs and RNA-binding proteins, including ribonucleases (RNases). RNases play an essential role in RNA metabolism, regulating RNA stability, decay, and activation. These enzymes exhibit species-specific effects on gene expression, bacterial physiology, and different strategies of target recognition. Recent advances in high-throughput RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) approaches have provided a better understanding of the roles and modes of action of bacterial RNases. Global studies aiming to identify direct targets of RNases have highlighted the diversity of RNase activity and RNA-based mechanisms of gene expression regulation. Here, we review recent RNA-seq approaches used to study bacterial RNases, with a focus on the methods for identifying direct RNase targets.
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- Laura Broglia
- Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens, D-10117 Berlin, Germany
- Center for Human Technologies, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, 16152 Genova, Italy
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- Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens, D-10117 Berlin, Germany
- Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, INSERM, ARNA, UMR 5320, U1212, F-33000 Bordeaux, France
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- Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens, D-10117 Berlin, Germany
- Institute for Biology, Humboldt University, D-10115 Berlin, Germany
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Marquez-Molins J, Juarez-Gonzalez VT, Gomez G, Pallas V, Martinez G. Occurrence of RNA post-transcriptional modifications in plant viruses and viroids and their correlation with structural and functional features. Virus Res 2023; 323:198958. [PMID: 36209921 PMCID: PMC10194119 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2022.198958] [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: 04/06/2022] [Revised: 09/30/2022] [Accepted: 10/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Post-transcriptional modifications of RNA bases are widespread across all the tree of life and have been linked to RNA maturation, stability, and molecular interactions. RNA modifications have been extensively described in endogenous eukaryotic mRNAs, however, little is known about the presence of RNA modifications in plant viral and subviral RNAs. Here, we used a computational approach to infer RNA modifications in plant-pathogenic viruses and viroids using high-throughput annotation of modified ribonucleotides (HAMR), a software that predicts modified ribonucleotides using high-throughput RNA sequencing data. We analyzed datasets from representative members of different plant viruses and viroids and compared them to plant-endogenous mRNAs. Our approach was able to predict potential RNA chemical modifications (RCMs) in all analyzed pathogens. We found that both DNA and RNA viruses presented a wide range of RCM proportions while viroids had lowest values. Furthermore, we found that for viruses with segmented genomes, some genomic RNAs had a higher proportion of RCM. Interestingly, nuclear-replicating viroids showed most of the predicted modifications located in the pathogenesis region, pointing towards a possible functional role of RCMs in their infectious cycle. Thus, our results strongly suggest that plant viral and subviral RNAs might contain a variety of previously unreported RNA modifications, thus opening a new perspective in the multifaceted process of plant-pathogen interactions.
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- Joan Marquez-Molins
- Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) - Universitat de València (UV), Parc Científic, Cat. Agustín Escardino 9, Paterna 46980, Spain; Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (IBMCP), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) - Universitat Politècnica de València, CPI 8E, Av. de los Naranjos s/n, Valencia 46022, Spain
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- Department of Plant Biology, Uppsala BioCenter, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Linnean Center for Plant Biology, Uppsala 750 07, Sweden
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- Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) - Universitat de València (UV), Parc Científic, Cat. Agustín Escardino 9, Paterna 46980, Spain
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- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (IBMCP), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) - Universitat Politècnica de València, CPI 8E, Av. de los Naranjos s/n, Valencia 46022, Spain
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- Department of Plant Biology, Uppsala BioCenter, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Linnean Center for Plant Biology, Uppsala 750 07, Sweden.
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Rodríguez-García A, Sola-Landa A, Barreiro C. RNA Preparation and RNA-Seq Bioinformatics for Comparative Transcriptomics. Methods Mol Biol 2023; 2704:99-113. [PMID: 37642840 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3385-4_6] [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: 08/31/2023]
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The principal transcriptome analysis is the determination of differentially expressed genes across experimental conditions. For this, the next-generation sequencing of RNA (RNA-seq) has several advantages over other techniques, such as the capability of detecting all the transcripts in one assay over RT-qPCR, such as its higher accuracy and broader dynamic range over microarrays or the ability to detect novel transcripts, including non-coding RNA molecules, at nucleotide-level resolution over both techniques. Despite these advantages, many microbiology laboratories have not yet applied RNA-seq analyses to their investigations. The high cost of the equipment for next-generation sequencing is no longer an issue since this intermediate part of the analysis can be provided by commercial or central services. Here, we detail a protocol for the first part of the analysis, the RNA extraction and an introductory protocol to the bioinformatics analysis of the sequencing data to generate the differential expression results.
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- Antonio Rodríguez-García
- Área de Microbiología, Departamento de Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales, Universidad de León, León, Spain.
- Instituto de Biotecnología de León, INBIOTEC, León, Spain.
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- Instituto de Biotecnología de León, INBIOTEC, León, Spain
- Fundación Cesefor, León, Spain
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- Instituto de Biotecnología de León, INBIOTEC, León, Spain
- Área de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Departamento de Biología Molecular, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de León, León, Spain
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Molecular Characterization and Clinical Characteristics of m5C-Based RNA Methylation in Spinal Cord Injury: Validated by qPCR. Int J Genomics 2022; 2022:5433860. [PMID: 36582430 PMCID: PMC9794433 DOI: 10.1155/2022/5433860] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2022] [Revised: 07/25/2022] [Accepted: 12/03/2022] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Aberrant patterns of 5-methylcytosine (m5C)-based ribonucleic acid (RNA) methylation have critical roles in various human diseases, but their importance in spinal cord injury (SCI) is largely unknown. We explore the expression patterns and potential roles of m5C-based regulators of RNA modification after SCI. We analyzed 16 m5C-based regulators of RNA modification in tissues with SCI and normal rats from the Gene Expression Omnibus database. We constructed a "gene signature" of m5C-based regulators of RNA modification to predict the prognosis of SCI using least absolute shrinkage and selection operator regression and random-forest strategy. We found that the m5C-related genes, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) methyltransferase1 (Dnmt1), methyl-CpG binding domain protein 2 (Mbd2), ubiquitin-like with PHD and ring finger domains 1 (Uhrf1), uracil-N-glycosylase (Ung), and zinc finger and BTB(brica-brac, tramtrack, and broad) domain containing 38 (Zbtb38) had high expression, and zinc finger and BTB domain containing 4 (Zbtb4) had low expression in SCI. Analysis of the correlation between the gene sets of m5C-based regulators of RNA modification and immune-cell infiltration and immune response revealed Dnmt1, DNA methyltransferases 3A (Dnmt3a), Mbd2, and Ung to be positive regulators of the immune microenvironment, and Zbtb4 may negatively regulate the immune environment. Then, two molecular subtypes were identified based on 16 m5C-regulated genes. Functional-enrichment analysis of differentially expressed genes between different patterns of m5C-based modification was undertaken. Through the creation of a protein-protein interaction network, we screened 11 hub genes. We demonstrated their importance between SCI group and sham group using real-time reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction in rat model. Expression of hub genes did not correlate with mitophagy but was positively correlated with endoplasmic reticulum stress (ERS), which suggested that there may be differences in ERS between different patterns of m5C-based modification. This present study explored and discovered the close link between m5C regulators-related genes and SCI. We also hope our findings may contribute to further mechanistic and therapeutic research on the role of key m5C regulators after SCI.
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Caldwell RM, Flynn RA. Discovering glycoRNA: Traditional and Non‐Canonical Approaches to Studying RNA Modifications. Isr J Chem 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/ijch.202200059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Reese M. Caldwell
- Stem Cell Program, Boston Children's Hospital Boston 02115 Massachusetts United States
- Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Department, Harvard University Cambridage 02138 Massachusetts United States
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- Stem Cell Program, Boston Children's Hospital Boston 02115 Massachusetts United States
- Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Department, Harvard University Cambridage 02138 Massachusetts United States
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Epigenetic-Mediated Antimicrobial Resistance: Host versus Pathogen Epigenetic Alterations. Antibiotics (Basel) 2022; 11:antibiotics11060809. [PMID: 35740215 PMCID: PMC9220109 DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics11060809] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2022] [Revised: 06/07/2022] [Accepted: 06/13/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Since the discovery of antibiotics, humans have been benefiting from them by decreasing the morbidity and mortality associated with bacterial infections. However, in the past few decades, misuse of antibiotics has led to the emergence of bacterial infections resistant to multiple drugs, a significant health concern. Bacteria exposed to inappropriate levels of antibiotics lead to several genetic changes, enabling them to survive in the host and become more resistant. Despite the understanding and targeting of genetic-based biochemical changes in the bacteria, the increasing levels of antibiotic resistance are not under control. Many reports hint at the role of epigenetic modifications in the bacterial genome and host epigenetic reprogramming due to interaction with resistant pathogens. Epigenetic changes, such as the DNA-methylation-based regulation of bacterial mutation rates or bacteria-induced histone modification in human epithelial cells, facilitate its long-term survival. In this review article, epigenetic changes leading to the development of antibiotic resistance in clinically relevant bacteria are discussed. Additionally, recent lines of evidence focusing on human host epigenetic changes due to the human–pathogen interactions are presented. As genetic mechanisms cannot explain the transient nature of antimicrobial resistance, we believe that epigenetics may provide new frontiers in antimicrobial discovery.
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D’Esposito RJ, Myers CA, Chen AA, Vangaveti S. Challenges with Simulating Modified RNA: Insights into Role and Reciprocity of Experimental and Computational Approaches. Genes (Basel) 2022; 13:540. [PMID: 35328093 PMCID: PMC8949676 DOI: 10.3390/genes13030540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2022] [Revised: 03/15/2022] [Accepted: 03/16/2022] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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RNA is critical to a broad spectrum of biological and viral processes. This functional diversity is a result of their dynamic nature; the variety of three-dimensional structures that they can fold into; and a host of post-transcriptional chemical modifications. While there are many experimental techniques to study the structural dynamics of biomolecules, molecular dynamics simulations (MDS) play a significant role in complementing experimental data and providing mechanistic insights. The accuracy of the results obtained from MDS is determined by the underlying physical models i.e., the force-fields, that steer the simulations. Though RNA force-fields have received a lot of attention in the last decade, they still lag compared to their protein counterparts. The chemical diversity imparted by the RNA modifications adds another layer of complexity to an already challenging problem. Insight into the effect of RNA modifications upon RNA folding and dynamics is lacking due to the insufficiency or absence of relevant experimental data. This review provides an overview of the state of MDS of modified RNA, focusing on the challenges in parameterization of RNA modifications as well as insights into relevant reference experiments necessary for their calibration.
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- Rebecca J. D’Esposito
- Department of Chemistry, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222, USA; (R.J.D.); (A.A.C.)
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- Department of Physics, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222, USA;
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- Department of Chemistry, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222, USA; (R.J.D.); (A.A.C.)
- The RNA Institute, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222, USA
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- The RNA Institute, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222, USA
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Fasnacht M, Gallo S, Sharma P, Himmelstoß M, Limbach PA, Willi J, Polacek N. Dynamic 23S rRNA modification ho5C2501 benefits Escherichia coli under oxidative stress. Nucleic Acids Res 2021; 50:473-489. [PMID: 34904663 PMCID: PMC8754641 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkab1224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2021] [Revised: 11/23/2021] [Accepted: 12/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Post-transcriptional modifications are added to ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs) to govern ribosome biogenesis and to fine-tune protein biosynthesis. In Escherichia coli and related bacteria, RlhA uniquely catalyzes formation of a 5-hydroxycytidine (ho5C) at position 2501 of 23S rRNA. However, the molecular and biological functions as well as the regulation of ho5C2501 modification remain unclear. We measured growth curves with the modification-deficient ΔrlhA strain and quantified the extent of the modification during different conditions by mass spectrometry and reverse transcription. The levels of ho5C2501 in E. coli ribosomes turned out to be highly dynamic and growth phase-dependent, with the most effective hydroxylation yields observed in the stationary phase. We demonstrated a direct effect of ho5C2501 on translation efficiencies in vitro and in vivo. High ho5C2501 levels reduced protein biosynthesis which however turned out to be beneficial for E. coli for adapting to oxidative stress. This functional advantage was small under optimal conditions or during heat or cold shock, but becomes pronounced in the presence of hydrogen peroxide. Taken together, these data provided first functional insights into the role of this unique 23S rRNA modification for ribosome functions and bacterial growth under oxidative stress.
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- Michel Fasnacht
- Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.,Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.,Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry, Center for Molecular Biosciences Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Rieveschl Laboratories for Mass Spectrometry, Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.,Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.,Rieveschl Laboratories for Mass Spectrometry, Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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Cruz J, Lemos B. Post-transcriptional diversity in riboproteins and RNAs in aging and cancer. Semin Cancer Biol 2021; 76:292-300. [PMID: 34474152 PMCID: PMC8627441 DOI: 10.1016/j.semcancer.2021.08.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2021] [Revised: 08/28/2021] [Accepted: 08/29/2021] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Post-transcriptional (PtscM) and post-translational (PtrnM) modifications of nucleotides and amino acids are covalent modifications able to change physio-chemical properties of RNAs and proteins. In the ribosome, the adequate assembly of rRNAs and ribosomal protein subunits in the nucleolus ensures suitable translational activity, with protein synthesis tuned according to intracellular demands of energy production, replication, proliferation, and growth. Disruption in the regulatory control of PtscM and PtrnM can impair ribosome biogenesis and ribosome function. Ribosomal impairment may, in turn, impact the synthesis of proteins engaged in functions as varied as telomere maintenance, apoptosis, and DNA repair, as well as intersect with mitochondria and telomerase activity. These cellular processes often malfunction in carcinogenesis and senescence. Here we discuss regulatory mechanisms of PtscMs and PtrnMs on ribosomal function. We also address chemical modification in rRNAs and their impacts on cellular metabolism, replication control, and senescence. Further, we highlight similarities and differences of PtscMs and PtrnMs in ribosomal intermediates during aging and carcinogenesis. Understanding these regulatory mechanisms may uncover critical steps for the development of more efficient oncologic and anti-aging therapies.
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- Jurandir Cruz
- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP 01246, Brazil
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
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Caudai C, Galizia A, Geraci F, Le Pera L, Morea V, Salerno E, Via A, Colombo T. AI applications in functional genomics. Comput Struct Biotechnol J 2021; 19:5762-5790. [PMID: 34765093 PMCID: PMC8566780 DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2021.10.009] [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: 04/16/2021] [Revised: 10/05/2021] [Accepted: 10/05/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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We review the current applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in functional genomics. The recent explosion of AI follows the remarkable achievements made possible by "deep learning", along with a burst of "big data" that can meet its hunger. Biology is about to overthrow astronomy as the paradigmatic representative of big data producer. This has been made possible by huge advancements in the field of high throughput technologies, applied to determine how the individual components of a biological system work together to accomplish different processes. The disciplines contributing to this bulk of data are collectively known as functional genomics. They consist in studies of: i) the information contained in the DNA (genomics); ii) the modifications that DNA can reversibly undergo (epigenomics); iii) the RNA transcripts originated by a genome (transcriptomics); iv) the ensemble of chemical modifications decorating different types of RNA transcripts (epitranscriptomics); v) the products of protein-coding transcripts (proteomics); and vi) the small molecules produced from cell metabolism (metabolomics) present in an organism or system at a given time, in physiological or pathological conditions. After reviewing main applications of AI in functional genomics, we discuss important accompanying issues, including ethical, legal and economic issues and the importance of explainability.
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- Claudia Caudai
- CNR, Institute of Information Science and Technologies “A. Faedo” (ISTI), Pisa, Italy
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- CNR, Institute of Applied Mathematics and Information Technologies (IMATI), Genoa, Italy
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- CNR, Institute for Informatics and Telematics (IIT), Pisa, Italy
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- CNR, Institute of Biomembranes, Bioenergetics and Molecular Biotechnologies (IBIOM), Bari, Italy
- CNR, Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology (IBPM), Rome, Italy
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- CNR, Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology (IBPM), Rome, Italy
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- CNR, Institute of Information Science and Technologies “A. Faedo” (ISTI), Pisa, Italy
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- CNR, Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology (IBPM), Rome, Italy
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- CNR, Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology (IBPM), Rome, Italy
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Zhao J, Hu H, Wang S, Wang L, Wang R. Regulation and Site-Specific Covalent Labeling of NSUN2 via Genetic Encoding Expansion. Genes (Basel) 2021; 12:1488. [PMID: 34680884 PMCID: PMC8535899 DOI: 10.3390/genes12101488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2021] [Revised: 09/18/2021] [Accepted: 09/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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In living organisms, RNA regulates gene expression, cell migration, differentiation, and cell death. 5-Methylcytosine is a post-transcriptional RNA modification in a wide range of RNA species, including messenger RNAs. The addition of m5C to RNA cytosines is enabled by the NSUN enzyme family, a critical RNA methyltransferase. In this study, natural lysines modified with special groups were synthesized. Through two rounds of positive screening and one round of negative screening, we evaluated and identified the MbPylRS-tRNACUA unnatural lysine substitution system, which specifically recognizes lysine with a defined group. Moreover, non-natural lysine substitution at C271 of NSUN2 active site and the subsequent fluorescent labeling was realized through the click reaction. Then, the function of the NSUN2 mutant and its upregulated CDK1 gene as well as its effect on cell proliferation were evaluated. Efficient labeling and regulation of NSUN2 was achieved, laying the basis for further studies on the function and regulatory mechanism of upregulated genes.
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- Jizhong Zhao
- The Hubei Key Laboratory of Natural Resource and Medicine, School of Pharmacy, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 13 Hangkong Road, Wuhan 430030, China; (J.Z.); (H.H.); (S.W.)
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- The Hubei Key Laboratory of Natural Resource and Medicine, School of Pharmacy, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 13 Hangkong Road, Wuhan 430030, China; (J.Z.); (H.H.); (S.W.)
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- The Hubei Key Laboratory of Natural Resource and Medicine, School of Pharmacy, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 13 Hangkong Road, Wuhan 430030, China; (J.Z.); (H.H.); (S.W.)
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- Wuhan No.1 Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 225 Zhongshan Avenue, Wuhan 430022, China;
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- Wuhan No.1 Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 225 Zhongshan Avenue, Wuhan 430022, China;
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Predictive value of m5C regulatory gene expression in pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Sci Rep 2021; 11:17529. [PMID: 34471186 PMCID: PMC8410865 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-96470-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2021] [Accepted: 08/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PAAD) is the most malignant digestive tumor. The global incidence of pancreatic cancer has been rapidly trending upwards, necessitating an exploration of potential prognostic biomarkers and mechanisms of disease development. One of the most prevalent RNA modifications is 5-methylcytosine (m5C); however, its contribution to PAAD remains unclear. Data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database, including genes, copy number variations (CNVs), and simple nucleotide variations (SNVs), were obtained in the present study to identify gene signatures and prognostic values for m5C regulators in PAAD. Regulatory gene m5C changes were significantly correlated with TP53, BRCA1, CDKN2A, and ATM genes, which play important roles in PAAD pathogenesis. In particular, there was a significant relationship between m5C regulatory gene CNVs, especially in genes encoding epigenetic “writers”. According to m5C-regulated gene expression in clinically graded cases, one m5C-regulated genes, DNMT3A, showed both a strong effect on CNVs and a significant correlation between expression level and clinical grade (P < 0.05). Furthermore, low DNMT3A expression was not only associated with poor PAAD patient prognosis but also with the ribosomal processing. The relationship between low DNMT3A expression and poor prognosis was confirmed in an International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) validation dataset.
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Wang W, Shao F, Yang X, Wang J, Zhu R, Yang Y, Zhao G, Guo D, Sun Y, Wang J, Xue Q, Gao S, Gao Y, He J, Lu Z. METTL3 promotes tumour development by decreasing APC expression mediated by APC mRNA N 6-methyladenosine-dependent YTHDF binding. Nat Commun 2021; 12:3803. [PMID: 34155197 PMCID: PMC8217513 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23501-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2020] [Accepted: 04/23/2021] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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The adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) is a frequently mutated tumour suppressor gene in cancers. However, whether APC is regulated at the epitranscriptomic level remains elusive. In this study, we analysed TCGA data and separated 200 paired oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) specimens and their adjacent normal tissues and demonstrated that methyltransferase-like 3 (METTL3) is highly expressed in tumour tissues. m6A-RNA immunoprecipitation sequencing revealed that METTL3 upregulates the m6A modification of APC, which recruits YTHDF for APC mRNA degradation. Reduced APC expression increases the expression of β-catenin and β-catenin-mediated cyclin D1, c-Myc, and PKM2 expression, thereby leading to enhanced aerobic glycolysis, ESCC cell proliferation, and tumour formation in mice. In addition, downregulated APC expression correlates with upregulated METTL3 expression in human ESCC specimens and poor prognosis in ESCC patients. Our findings reveal a mechanism by which the Wnt/β-catenin pathway is upregulated in ESCC via METTL3/YTHDF-coupled epitranscriptomal downregulation of APC. The epitranscriptomic regulation of adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) tumour suppressor gene in cancers is unclear. Here the authors show that N6-methyladenosine methylation writer METTL3 downregulates APC by recruiting YTHDF2 for APC mRNA degradation, and that this promotes glycolysis and tumour growth in oesophageal cancers.
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- Wei Wang
- Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.,Department of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University and Qingdao Cancer Institute, Qingdao, Shandong, China
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University and Qingdao Cancer Institute, Qingdao, Shandong, China
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Pancreatic Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital and Institute of Translational Medicine, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital and Shenzhen Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.,State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.,State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.,State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China. .,State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China. .,State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China. .,Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Pancreatic Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital and Institute of Translational Medicine, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China. .,Zhejiang University Cancer Center, Hangzhou, China.
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Westermann AJ, Vogel J. Cross-species RNA-seq for deciphering host-microbe interactions. Nat Rev Genet 2021; 22:361-378. [PMID: 33597744 DOI: 10.1038/s41576-021-00326-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/05/2021] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
Abstract
The human body is constantly exposed to microorganisms, which entails manifold interactions between human cells and diverse commensal or pathogenic bacteria. The cellular states of the interacting cells are decisive for the outcome of these encounters such as whether bacterial virulence programmes and host defence or tolerance mechanisms are induced. This Review summarizes how next-generation RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) has become a primary technology to study host-microbe interactions with high resolution, improving our understanding of the physiological consequences and the mechanisms at play. We illustrate how the discriminatory power and sensitivity of RNA-seq helps to dissect increasingly complex cellular interactions in time and space down to the single-cell level. We also outline how future transcriptomics may answer currently open questions in host-microbe interactions and inform treatment schemes for microbial disorders.
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- Alexander J Westermann
- Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Würzburg, Germany. .,Institute for Molecular Infection Biology (IMIB), University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
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- Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Würzburg, Germany. .,Institute for Molecular Infection Biology (IMIB), University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
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Möhler M, Höfer K, Jäschke A. Synthesis of 5'-Thiamine-Capped RNA. Molecules 2020; 25:E5492. [PMID: 33255222 PMCID: PMC7727699 DOI: 10.3390/molecules25235492] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [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: 11/06/2020] [Revised: 11/20/2020] [Accepted: 11/21/2020] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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RNA 5'-modifications are known to extend the functional spectrum of ribonucleotides. In recent years, numerous non-canonical 5'-modifications, including adenosine-containing cofactors from the group of B vitamins, have been confirmed in all kingdoms of life. The structural component of thiamine adenosine triphosphate (thiamine-ATP), a vitamin B1 derivative found to accumulate in Escherichia coli and other organisms in response to metabolic stress conditions, suggests an analogous function as a 5'-modification of RNA. Here, we report the synthesis of thiamine adenosine dinucleotides and the preparation of pure 5'-thiamine-capped RNAs based on phosphorimidazolide chemistry. Furthermore, we present the incorporation of thiamine-ATP and thiamine adenosine diphosphate (thiamine-ADP) as 5'-caps of RNA by T7 RNA polymerase. Transcripts containing the thiamine modification were modified specifically with biotin via a combination of thiazole ring opening, nucleophilic substitution and copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition. The highlighted methods provide easy access to 5'-thiamine RNA, which may be applied in the development of thiamine-specific RNA capture protocols as well as the discovery and confirmation of 5'-thiamine-capped RNAs in various organisms.
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- Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 364, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany; (M.M.); (K.H.)
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Catala M, Gato A, Tisné C, Barraud P. 1H, 15N chemical shift assignments of the imino groups of yeast tRNA Phe: influence of the post-transcriptional modifications. BIOMOLECULAR NMR ASSIGNMENTS 2020; 14:169-174. [PMID: 32239363 DOI: 10.1007/s12104-020-09939-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2019] [Accepted: 03/26/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
Abstract
Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) are heavily decorated with post-transcriptional modifications during their biosynthesis. To fulfil their functions within cells, tRNAs undergo a tightly controlled biogenesis process leading to the formation of mature tRNAs. In particular, the introduction of post-transcriptional modifications in tRNAs is controlled and influenced by multiple factors. In turn, tRNA biological functions are often modulated by their modifications. Although modifications play essential roles in tRNA biology, methods to directly detect their introduction during tRNA maturation are rare and do not easily provide information on the temporality of modification events. To obtain information on the tRNA maturation process, we have developed a methodology, using NMR as a tool to monitor tRNA maturation in a non-disruptive and continuous fashion in cellular extracts. Here we report the 1H,15N chemical shift assignments of imino groups in three forms of the yeast tRNAPhe differing in their modification content. These assignments are a prerequisite for the time-resolved NMR monitoring of yeast tRNAPhe maturation in yeast extracts.
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- Marjorie Catala
- Expression Génétique Microbienne, UMR 8261, CNRS, Université de Paris, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique (IBPC), 13 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005, Paris, France
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- Expression Génétique Microbienne, UMR 8261, CNRS, Université de Paris, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique (IBPC), 13 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005, Paris, France
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- Expression Génétique Microbienne, UMR 8261, CNRS, Université de Paris, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique (IBPC), 13 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005, Paris, France
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- Expression Génétique Microbienne, UMR 8261, CNRS, Université de Paris, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique (IBPC), 13 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005, Paris, France.
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Irastortza-Olaziregi M, Amster-Choder O. RNA localization in prokaryotes: Where, when, how, and why. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-RNA 2020; 12:e1615. [PMID: 32851805 DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1615] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2020] [Revised: 05/27/2020] [Accepted: 06/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
Abstract
Only recently has it been recognized that the transcriptome of bacteria and archaea can be spatiotemporally regulated. All types of prokaryotic transcripts-rRNAs, tRNAs, mRNAs, and regulatory RNAs-may acquire specific localization and these patterns can be temporally regulated. In some cases bacterial RNAs reside in the vicinity of the transcription site, but in many others, transcripts show distinct localizations to the cytoplasm, the inner membrane, or the pole of rod-shaped species. This localization, which often overlaps with that of the encoded proteins, can be achieved either in a translation-dependent or translation-independent fashion. The latter implies that RNAs carry sequence-level features that determine their final localization with the aid of RNA-targeting factors. Localization of transcripts regulates their posttranscriptional fate by affecting their degradation and processing, translation efficiency, sRNA-mediated regulation, and/or propensity to undergo RNA modifications. By facilitating complex assembly and liquid-liquid phase separation, RNA localization is not only a consequence but also a driver of subcellular spatiotemporal complexity. We foresee that in the coming years the study of RNA localization in prokaryotes will produce important novel insights regarding the fundamental understanding of membrane-less subcellular organization and lead to practical outputs with biotechnological and therapeutic implications. This article is categorized under: RNA Export and Localization > RNA Localization Regulatory RNAs/RNAi/Riboswitches > Regulatory RNAs RNA Interactions with Proteins and Other Molecules > Protein-RNA Interactions: Functional Implications.
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- Mikel Irastortza-Olaziregi
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, IMRIC, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, IMRIC, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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Schumann U, Zhang HN, Sibbritt T, Pan A, Horvath A, Gross S, Clark SJ, Yang L, Preiss T. Multiple links between 5-methylcytosine content of mRNA and translation. BMC Biol 2020; 18:40. [PMID: 32293435 PMCID: PMC7158060 DOI: 10.1186/s12915-020-00769-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2020] [Accepted: 03/11/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND 5-Methylcytosine (m5C) is a prevalent base modification in tRNA and rRNA but it also occurs more broadly in the transcriptome, including in mRNA, where it serves incompletely understood molecular functions. In pursuit of potential links of m5C with mRNA translation, we performed polysome profiling of human HeLa cell lysates and subjected RNA from resultant fractions to efficient bisulfite conversion followed by RNA sequencing (bsRNA-seq). Bioinformatic filters for rigorous site calling were devised to reduce technical noise. RESULTS We obtained ~ 1000 candidate m5C sites in the wider transcriptome, most of which were found in mRNA. Multiple novel sites were validated by amplicon-specific bsRNA-seq in independent samples of either human HeLa, LNCaP and PrEC cells. Furthermore, RNAi-mediated depletion of either the NSUN2 or TRDMT1 m5C:RNA methyltransferases showed a clear dependence on NSUN2 for the majority of tested sites in both mRNAs and noncoding RNAs. Candidate m5C sites in mRNAs are enriched in 5'UTRs and near start codons and are embedded in a local context reminiscent of the NSUN2-dependent m5C sites found in the variable loop of tRNA. Analysing mRNA sites across the polysome profile revealed that modification levels, at bulk and for many individual sites, were inversely correlated with ribosome association. CONCLUSIONS Our findings emphasise the major role of NSUN2 in placing the m5C mark transcriptome-wide. We further present evidence that substantiates a functional interdependence of cytosine methylation level with mRNA translation. Additionally, we identify several compelling candidate sites for future mechanistic analysis.
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- Ulrike Schumann
- EMBL-Australia Collaborating Group, Department of Genome Sciences, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra, 2601, Australian Captial Territory, Australia
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200031, China
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- EMBL-Australia Collaborating Group, Department of Genome Sciences, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra, 2601, Australian Captial Territory, Australia
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- EMBL-Australia Collaborating Group, Department of Genome Sciences, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra, 2601, Australian Captial Territory, Australia
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- EMBL-Australia Collaborating Group, Department of Genome Sciences, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra, 2601, Australian Captial Territory, Australia
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- EMBL-Australia Collaborating Group, Department of Genome Sciences, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra, 2601, Australian Captial Territory, Australia
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- Genomics and Epigenetics Division, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, 2010, New South Wales, Australia
- Faculty of Medicine, St Vincent's Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, 2010, Australia
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200031, China
- School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, 201210, China
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- EMBL-Australia Collaborating Group, Department of Genome Sciences, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra, 2601, Australian Captial Territory, Australia.
- Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Sydney, New South Wales, 2010, Australia.
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Ray A, Frick DN. Fluorescent probe displacement assays reveal unique nucleic acid binding properties of human nudix enzymes. Anal Biochem 2020; 595:113622. [PMID: 32059949 PMCID: PMC7087442 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2020.113622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/01/2020] [Accepted: 02/10/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Nudix proteins are members of a large family of homologous enzymes that hydrolyze nucleoside diphosphates linked to other compounds. The substrates for a subset of Nudix enzymes are all nucleotides linked to RNA, like the m7G mRNA caps and the more recently discovered NAD(H) RNA caps. However, the RNA affinity and nucleic acid specificity of Nudix proteins has not yet been explored in depth. In this study we designed new fluorescence-based assays to examine the interaction of purified recombinant E. coli NudC and human Nudt1 (aka MTH1) Nudt3, Nudt12, Nudt16, and Nudt20 (aka Dcp2). All Nudix proteins except Nudt1 and Nudt12 bound both RNA and DNA stoichiometrically with high affinity (dissociation constants in the nanomolar range) and no clear sequence specificity. In stark contrast, Nudt12 binds RNA but not similar DNA oligonucleotides. Nudt12 also bound RNAs with 5' NAD+ caps more tightly than those with NADH or m7G cap. NudC was similarly selective against m7G caps but did not differentiate between NAD+ and NADH capped RNA. Nudt3, Nudt16, and Nudt20 bound m7G capped RNA more tightly than RNA with NADH caps.
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- Atreyei Ray
- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, The University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, 53217, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, The University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, 53217, USA.
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A Novel NAD-RNA Decapping Pathway Discovered by Synthetic Light-Up NAD-RNAs. Biomolecules 2020; 10:biom10040513. [PMID: 32231086 PMCID: PMC7226252 DOI: 10.3390/biom10040513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2020] [Revised: 03/26/2020] [Accepted: 03/27/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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The complexity of the transcriptome is governed by the intricate interplay of transcription, RNA processing, translocation, and decay. In eukaryotes, the removal of the 5’-RNA cap is essential for the initiation of RNA degradation. In addition to the canonical 5’-N7-methyl guanosine cap in eukaryotes, the ubiquitous redox cofactor nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) was identified as a new 5’-RNA cap structure in prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms. So far, two classes of NAD-RNA decapping enzymes have been identified, namely Nudix enzymes that liberate nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) and DXO-enzymes that remove the entire NAD cap. Herein, we introduce 8-(furan-2-yl)-substituted NAD-capped-RNA (FurNAD-RNA) as a new research tool for the identification and characterization of novel NAD-RNA decapping enzymes. These compounds are found to be suitable for various enzymatic reactions that result in the release of a fluorescence quencher, either nicotinamide (NAM) or nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN), from the RNA which causes a fluorescence turn-on. FurNAD-RNAs allow for real-time quantification of decapping activity, parallelization, high-throughput screening and identification of novel decapping enzymes in vitro. Using FurNAD-RNAs, we discovered that the eukaryotic glycohydrolase CD38 processes NAD-capped RNA in vitro into ADP-ribose-modified-RNA and nicotinamide and therefore might act as a decapping enzyme in vivo. The existence of multiple pathways suggests that the decapping of NAD-RNA is an important and regulated process in eukaryotes.
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Adams PP, Storz G. Prevalence of small base-pairing RNAs derived from diverse genomic loci. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENE REGULATORY MECHANISMS 2020; 1863:194524. [PMID: 32147527 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2020.194524] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2019] [Revised: 03/03/2020] [Accepted: 03/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Small RNAs (sRNAs) that act by base-pairing have been shown to play important roles in fine-tuning the levels and translation of their target transcripts across a variety of model and pathogenic organisms. Work from many different groups in a wide range of bacterial species has provided evidence for the importance and complexity of sRNA regulatory networks, which allow bacteria to quickly respond to changes in their environment. However, despite the expansive literature, much remains to be learned about all aspects of sRNA-mediated regulation, particularly in bacteria beyond the well-characterized Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica species. Here we discuss what is known, and what remains to be learned, about the identification of regulatory base-pairing RNAs produced from diverse genomic loci including how their expression is regulated. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: RNA and gene control in bacteria edited by Dr. M. Guillier and F. Repoila.
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- Philip P Adams
- Division of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD 20892-5430, USA; Postdoctoral Research Associate Program, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-6200, USA.
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- Division of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD 20892-5430, USA
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Hör J, Matera G, Vogel J, Gottesman S, Storz G. Trans-Acting Small RNAs and Their Effects on Gene Expression in Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica. EcoSal Plus 2020; 9:10.1128/ecosalplus.ESP-0030-2019. [PMID: 32213244 PMCID: PMC7112153 DOI: 10.1128/ecosalplus.esp-0030-2019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The last few decades have led to an explosion in our understanding of the major roles that small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) play in regulatory circuits and the responses to stress in many bacterial species. Much of the foundational work was carried out with Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. The studies of these organisms provided an overview of how the sRNAs function and their impact on bacterial physiology, serving as a blueprint for sRNA biology in many other prokaryotes. They also led to the development of new technologies. In this chapter, we first summarize how these sRNAs were identified, defining them in the process. We discuss how they are regulated and how they act and provide selected examples of their roles in regulatory circuits and the consequences of this regulation. Throughout, we summarize the methodologies that were developed to identify and study the regulatory RNAs, most of which are applicable to other bacteria. Newly updated databases of the known sRNAs in E. coli K-12 and S. enterica Typhimurium SL1344 serve as a reference point for much of the discussion and, hopefully, as a resource for readers and for future experiments to address open questions raised in this review.
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- Jens Hör
- Institute of Molecular Infection Biology, University of Würzburg, 97080 Würzburg, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Infection Biology, University of Würzburg, 97080 Würzburg, Germany
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- Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI), 97080 Würzburg, Germany
- Institute of Molecular Infection Biology, University of Würzburg, 97080 Würzburg, Germany
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892
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- Division of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD 20892
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Antibiotic Resistance and Epigenetics: More to It than Meets the Eye. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2020; 64:AAC.02225-19. [PMID: 31740560 DOI: 10.1128/aac.02225-19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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The discovery of antibiotics in the last century is considered one of the most important achievements in the history of medicine. Antibiotic usage has significantly reduced morbidity and mortality associated with bacterial infections. However, inappropriate use of antibiotics has led to emergence of antibiotic resistance at an alarming rate. Antibiotic resistance is regarded as a major health care challenge of this century. Despite extensive research, well-documented biochemical mechanisms and genetic changes fail to fully explain mechanisms underlying antibiotic resistance. Several recent reports suggest a key role for epigenetics in the development of antibiotic resistance in bacteria. The intrinsic heterogeneity as well as transient nature of epigenetic inheritance provides a plausible backdrop for high-paced emergence of drug resistance in bacteria. The methylation of adenines and cytosines can influence mutation rates in bacterial genomes, thus modulating antibiotic susceptibility. In this review, we discuss a plethora of recently discovered epigenetic mechanisms and their emerging roles in antibiotic resistance. We also highlight specific epigenetic mechanisms that merit further investigation for their role in antibiotic resistance.
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RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) are central to most if not all cellular processes, dictating the fate of virtually all RNA molecules in the cell. Starting with pioneering work on ribosomal proteins, studies of bacterial RBPs have paved the way for molecular studies of RNA-protein interactions. Work over the years has identified major RBPs that act on cellular transcripts at the various stages of bacterial gene expression and that enable their integration into post-transcriptional networks that also comprise small non-coding RNAs. Bacterial RBP research has now entered a new era in which RNA sequencing-based methods permit mapping of RBP activity in a truly global manner in vivo. Moreover, the soaring interest in understudied members of host-associated microbiota and environmental communities is likely to unveil new RBPs and to greatly expand our knowledge of RNA-protein interactions in bacteria.
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- Erik Holmqvist
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Biomedical Center, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI), Würzburg, Germany. .,Institute of Molecular Infection Biology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
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Antoine L, Wolff P, Westhof E, Romby P, Marzi S. Mapping post-transcriptional modifications in Staphylococcus aureus tRNAs by nanoLC/MSMS. Biochimie 2019; 164:60-69. [PMID: 31295507 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2019.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2019] [Accepted: 07/03/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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RNA modifications are involved in numerous biological processes. These modifications are constitutive or modulated in response to adaptive processes and can impact RNA base-pairing formation, protein recognition, RNA structure and stability. tRNAs are the most abundantly modified RNA molecules. Analysis of the roles of their modifications in response to stress, environmental changes, and infections caused by pathogens, has fueled new research areas. Nevertheless, the detection of modified nucleotides in RNAs is still a challenging task. We present here a reliable method to identify and localize tRNA modifications, which was applied to the human pathogenic bacteria, Staphyloccocus aureus. The method is based on a separation of tRNA species on a two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis followed by nano liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. We provided a list of modifications mapped on 25 out of the 40 tRNA species (one isoacceptor for each amino acid). This method can be easily used to monitor the dynamics of tRNA modifications in S. aureus in response to stress adaptation and during infection of the host, a relatively unexplored field.
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- Laura Antoine
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, Architecture et Réactivité de L'ARN, UPR 9002, F-67000, Strasbourg, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, Architecture et Réactivité de L'ARN, UPR 9002, F-67000, Strasbourg, France; Plateforme Protéomique Strasbourg Esplanade, CNRS, FR1589, F-67000, Strasbourg, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, Architecture et Réactivité de L'ARN, UPR 9002, F-67000, Strasbourg, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, Architecture et Réactivité de L'ARN, UPR 9002, F-67000, Strasbourg, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, Architecture et Réactivité de L'ARN, UPR 9002, F-67000, Strasbourg, France.
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Wang L, Jiang S, Deng Z, Dedon PC, Chen S. DNA phosphorothioate modification-a new multi-functional epigenetic system in bacteria. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2019; 43:109-122. [PMID: 30289455 PMCID: PMC6435447 DOI: 10.1093/femsre/fuy036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2018] [Accepted: 10/03/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Synthetic phosphorothioate (PT) internucleotide linkages, in which a nonbridging oxygen is replaced by a sulphur atom, share similar physical and chemical properties with phosphodiesters but confer enhanced nuclease tolerance on DNA/RNA, making PTs a valuable biochemical and pharmacological tool. Interestingly, PT modification was recently found to occur naturally in bacteria in a sequence-selective and RP configuration-specific manner. This oxygen-sulphur swap is catalysed by the gene products of dndABCDE, which constitute a defence barrier with DndFGH in some bacterial strains that can distinguish and attack non-PT-modified foreign DNA, resembling DNA methylation-based restriction-modification (R-M) systems. Despite their similar defensive mechanisms, PT- and methylation-based R-M systems have evolved to target different consensus contexts in the host cell because when they share the same recognition sequences, the protective function of each can be impeded. The redox and nucleophilic properties of PT sulphur render PT modification a versatile player in the maintenance of cellular redox homeostasis, epigenetic regulation and environmental fitness. The widespread presence of dnd systems is considered a consequence of extensive horizontal gene transfer, whereas the lability of PT during oxidative stress and the susceptibility of PT to PT-dependent endonucleases provide possible explanations for the ubiquitous but sporadic distribution of PT modification in the bacterial world.
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- Lianrong Wang
- Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, 169 Donghu Road, Wuhan 430071, China.,Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery, Ministry of Education, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, 185 Donghu Road, Wuhan 430071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery, Ministry of Education, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, 185 Donghu Road, Wuhan 430071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery, Ministry of Education, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, 185 Donghu Road, Wuhan 430071, China
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- Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Masschusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, 169 Donghu Road, Wuhan 430071, China.,Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery, Ministry of Education, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, 185 Donghu Road, Wuhan 430071, China
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Lejars M, Kobayashi A, Hajnsdorf E. Physiological roles of antisense RNAs in prokaryotes. Biochimie 2019; 164:3-16. [PMID: 30995539 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2019.04.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2019] [Accepted: 04/12/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Prokaryotes encounter constant and often brutal modifications to their environment. In order to survive, they need to maintain fitness, which includes adapting their protein expression patterns. Many factors control gene expression but this review focuses on just one, namely antisense RNAs (asRNAs), a class of non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) characterized by their location in cis and their perfect complementarity with their targets. asRNAs were considered for a long time to be trivial and only to be found on mobile genetic elements. However, recent advances in methodology have revealed that their abundance and potential activities have been underestimated. This review aims to illustrate the role of asRNA in various physiologically crucial functions in both archaea and bacteria, which can be regrouped in three categories: cell maintenance, horizontal gene transfer and virulence. A literature survey of asRNAs demonstrates the difficulties to characterize and assign a role to asRNAs. With the aim of facilitating this task, we describe recent technological advances that could be of interest to identify new asRNAs and to discover their function.
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- Maxence Lejars
- CNRS UMR8261, IBPC, 13 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005, Paris, France.
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- SABNP, INSERM U1204, Université d'Evry Val-d'Essonne, Bâtiment Maupertuis, Rue du Père Jarlan, 91000, Évry Cedex, France.
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- CNRS UMR8261, IBPC, 13 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005, Paris, France.
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Vasilyev N, Gao A, Serganov A. Noncanonical features and modifications on the 5'-end of bacterial sRNAs and mRNAs. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS. RNA 2019; 10:e1509. [PMID: 30276982 PMCID: PMC6657780 DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1509] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2018] [Revised: 09/05/2018] [Accepted: 09/17/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Although many eukaryotic transcripts contain cap structures, it has been long thought that bacterial RNAs do not carry any special modifications on their 5'-ends. In bacteria, primary transcripts are produced by transcription initiated with a nucleoside triphosphate and are therefore triphosphorylated on 5'-ends. Some transcripts are then processed by nucleases that yield monophosphorylated RNAs for specific cellular activities. Many primary transcripts are also converted to monophosphorylated species by removal of the terminal pyrophosphate for 5'-end-dependent degradation. Recent studies surprisingly revealed an expanded repertoire of chemical groups on 5'-ends of bacterial RNAs. In addition to mono- and triphosphorylated moieties, some mRNAs and sRNAs contain cap-like structures and diphosphates on their 5'-ends. Although incorporation and removal of these groups have become better understood in recent years, the physiological significance of these modifications remain obscure. This review highlights recent studies aimed at identification and elucidation of novel modifications on the 5'-ends of bacterial RNAs and discusses possible physiological applications of the modified RNAs. This article is categorized under: RNA Turnover and Surveillance > Regulation of RNA Stability RNA Structure and Dynamics > RNA Structure, Dynamics, and Chemistry RNA Processing > Capping and 5' End Modifications.
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- Nikita Vasilyev
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, New York University School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, New York University School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, New York University School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA
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The increasingly complex functionality of RNA is contrasted by its simple chemical composition. RNA is generally built from only four different nucleotides (adenine, guanine, cytosine, and uracil). To date, >160 chemical modifications are known to decorate RNA molecules and thereby alter their function or stability. Many RNA modifications are conserved throughout bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes, while some are unique to each branch of life. Most known modifications occur at internal positions, while there is limited diversity at the termini. The dynamic nature of RNA modifications and newly discovered regulatory functions of some of these RNA modifications gave birth to a new field, now often referred to as "epitranscriptomics." This review highlights the major developments in this field and summarizes detection principles for internal as well as 5'-terminal mRNA modifications in prokaryotes and archaea to investigate their biological significance.
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Li J, Huang Y, Yang X, Zhou Y, Zhou Y. RNAm5Cfinder: A Web-server for Predicting RNA 5-methylcytosine (m5C) Sites Based on Random Forest. Sci Rep 2018; 8:17299. [PMID: 30470762 PMCID: PMC6251864 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-35502-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2018] [Accepted: 11/07/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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5-methylcytosine (m5C) is a common nucleobase modification, and recent investigations have indicated its prevalence in cellular RNAs including mRNA, tRNA and rRNA. With the rapid accumulation of m5C sites data, it becomes not only feasible but also important to build an accurate model to predict m5C sites in silico. For this purpose, here, we developed a web-server named RNAm5Cfinder based on RNA sequence features and machine learning method to predict RNA m5C sites in eight tissue/cell types from mouse and human. We confirmed the accuracy and usefulness of RNAm5Cfinder by independent tests, and the results show that the comprehensive and cell-specific predictors could pinpoint the generic or tissue-specific m5C sites with the Area Under Curve (AUC) no less than 0.77 and 0.87, respectively. RNAm5Cfinder web-server is freely available at http://www.rnanut.net/rnam5cfinder.
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- Jianwei Li
- Institute of Computational Medicine, School of Artificial Intelligence, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, China.,Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Center for Noncoding RNA Medicine, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Computational Medicine, School of Artificial Intelligence, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, China
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- Institute of Computational Medicine, School of Artificial Intelligence, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Center for Noncoding RNA Medicine, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Center for Noncoding RNA Medicine, Peking University, Beijing, China.
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Sánchez-Vásquez E, Alata Jimenez N, Vázquez NA, Strobl-Mazzulla PH. Emerging role of dynamic RNA modifications during animal development. Mech Dev 2018; 154:24-32. [PMID: 29654887 DOI: 10.1016/j.mod.2018.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2018] [Revised: 04/07/2018] [Accepted: 04/07/2018] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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The central dogma of molecular biology statically says that the information flows from DNA to messenger RNA to protein. But the recent advances in mass spectrometry and high throughput technology have helped the scientists to view RNA as little more than a courier of genetic information encoded in the DNA. The dynamics of RNA modifications in coding and non-coding RNAs are just emerging as a carrier of non-genetic information, uncovering a new layer of complexity in the regulation of gene expression and protein translation. In this review, we summarize about the current knowledge of N6-methyladenosine (m6A), N1-methyladenosine (m1A), 5-methylcytosine (m5C) and pseudouridine (Ψ) modifications in RNA, and described how these RNA modifications are implicated in early animal development and in several human diseases.
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- Estefanía Sánchez-Vásquez
- Laboratory of Developmental Biology, Instituto de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas- Instituto Tecnológico de Chascomús (CONICET-UNSAM), Int. Marino 8200, Chascomús 7130, Argentina
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- Laboratory of Developmental Biology, Instituto de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas- Instituto Tecnológico de Chascomús (CONICET-UNSAM), Int. Marino 8200, Chascomús 7130, Argentina
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- Laboratory of Developmental Biology, Instituto de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas- Instituto Tecnológico de Chascomús (CONICET-UNSAM), Int. Marino 8200, Chascomús 7130, Argentina
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- Laboratory of Developmental Biology, Instituto de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas- Instituto Tecnológico de Chascomús (CONICET-UNSAM), Int. Marino 8200, Chascomús 7130, Argentina.
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Hör J, Gorski SA, Vogel J. Bacterial RNA Biology on a Genome Scale. Mol Cell 2018; 70:785-799. [PMID: 29358079 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2017.12.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 131] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2017] [Revised: 12/11/2017] [Accepted: 12/22/2017] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Bacteria are an exceedingly diverse group of organisms whose molecular exploration is experiencing a renaissance. While the classical view of bacterial gene expression was relatively simple, the emerging view is more complex, encompassing extensive post-transcriptional control involving riboswitches, RNA thermometers, and regulatory small RNAs (sRNAs) associated with the RNA-binding proteins CsrA, Hfq, and ProQ, as well as CRISPR/Cas systems that are programmed by RNAs. Moreover, increasing interest in members of the human microbiota and environmental microbial communities has highlighted the importance of understudied bacterial species with largely unknown transcriptome structures and RNA-based control mechanisms. Collectively, this creates a need for global RNA biology approaches that can rapidly and comprehensively analyze the RNA composition of a bacterium of interest. We review such approaches with a focus on RNA-seq as a versatile tool to investigate the different layers of gene expression in which RNA is made, processed, regulated, modified, translated, and turned over.
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- Jens Hör
- Institute of Molecular Infection Biology, University of Würzburg, 97080 Würzburg, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Infection Biology, University of Würzburg, 97080 Würzburg, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Infection Biology, University of Würzburg, 97080 Würzburg, Germany; Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI), 97080 Würzburg, Germany.
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Barvík I, Rejman D, Panova N, Šanderová H, Krásný L. Non-canonical transcription initiation: the expanding universe of transcription initiating substrates. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2017; 41:131-138. [PMID: 27799279 DOI: 10.1093/femsre/fuw041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/17/2016] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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RNA polymerase (RNAP) is the central enzyme of transcription of the genetic information from DNA into RNA. RNAP recognizes four main substrates: ATP, CTP, GTP and UTP. Experimental evidence from the past several years suggests that, besides these four NTPs, other molecules can be used to initiate transcription: (i) ribooligonucleotides (nanoRNAs) and (ii) coenzymes such as NAD+, NADH, dephospho-CoA and FAD. The presence of these molecules at the 5΄ ends of RNAs affects the properties of the RNA. Here, we discuss the expanding portfolio of molecules that can initiate transcription, their mechanism of incorporation, effects on RNA and cellular processes, and we present an outlook toward other possible initiation substrates.
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- Ivan Barvík
- Division of Biomolecular Physics, Institute of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Ke Karlovu 5, 121 16 Prague 2, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences v. v. i., Flemingovo nám. 2, 166 10 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Sciences v. v. i., Vídenská 1083, 142 20 Prague 4, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Sciences v. v. i., Vídenská 1083, 142 20 Prague 4, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Sciences v. v. i., Vídenská 1083, 142 20 Prague 4, Czech Republic
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Felden B, Paillard L. When eukaryotes and prokaryotes look alike: the case of regulatory RNAs. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2017; 41:624-639. [PMID: 28981746 DOI: 10.1093/femsre/fux038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2017] [Accepted: 06/22/2017] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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The discovery that all living entities express many RNAs beyond mRNAs, tRNAs and rRNAs has been a surprise in the past two decades. In fact, regulatory RNAs (regRNAs) are plentiful, and we report stunning parallels between their mechanisms and functions in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. For instance, prokaryotic CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) defense systems are functional analogs to eukaryotic RNA interference processes that preserve the cell against foreign nucleic acid elements. Regulatory RNAs shape the genome in many ways: by controlling mobile element transposition in both domains, via regulation of plasmid counts in prokaryotes, or by directing epigenetic modifications of DNA and associated proteins in eukaryotes. RegRNAs control gene expression extensively at transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels, with crucial roles in fine-tuning cell environmental responses, including intercellular interactions. Although the lengths, structures and outcomes of the regRNAs in all life kingdoms are disparate, they act through similar patterns: by guiding effectors to target molecules or by sequestering macromolecules to hamper their functions. In addition, their biogenesis processes have a lot in common. This unifying vision of regRNAs in all living cells from bacteria to humans points to the possibility of fruitful exchanges between fundamental and applied research in both domains.
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- Brice Felden
- Inserm U1230 Biochimie Pharmaceutique, Université de Rennes 1, 35043 Rennes, France.,Biosit, Université de Rennes 1, 35043 Rennes, France
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- Biosit, Université de Rennes 1, 35043 Rennes, France.,Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR 6290, Institut de Génétique et Développement de Rennes, 35043 Rennes, France
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Bacterial pathogen gene regulation: a DNA-structure-centred view of a protein-dominated domain. Clin Sci (Lond) 2017; 130:1165-77. [PMID: 27252403 DOI: 10.1042/cs20160024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2016] [Accepted: 04/15/2016] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The mechanisms used by bacterial pathogens to regulate the expression of their genes, especially their virulence genes, have been the subject of intense investigation for several decades. Whole genome sequencing projects, together with more targeted studies, have identified hundreds of DNA-binding proteins that contribute to the patterns of gene expression observed during infection as well as providing important insights into the nature of the gene products whose expression is being controlled by these proteins. Themes that have emerged include the importance of horizontal gene transfer to the evolution of pathogens, the need to impose regulatory discipline upon these imported genes and the important roles played by factors normally associated with the organization of genome architecture as regulatory principles in the control of virulence gene expression. Among these architectural elements is the structure of DNA itself, its variable nature at a topological rather than just at a base-sequence level and its ability to play an active (as well as a passive) part in the gene regulation process.
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Pizzinga M, Harvey RF, Willis AE. Till stress do us ataRT: a novel toxin-antitoxin system targeting translation initiation. Cell Death Differ 2017; 24:951-952. [PMID: 28498366 PMCID: PMC5442479 DOI: 10.1038/cdd.2017.66] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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- Mariavittoria Pizzinga
- Department of Toxicology, Medical Research Council Toxicology Unit, Lancaster Road, Leicester LE1 9HN UK
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- Department of Toxicology, Medical Research Council Toxicology Unit, Lancaster Road, Leicester LE1 9HN UK
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- Department of Toxicology, Medical Research Council Toxicology Unit, Lancaster Road, Leicester LE1 9HN UK
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Roignant JY, Soller M. m 6A in mRNA: An Ancient Mechanism for Fine-Tuning Gene Expression. Trends Genet 2017; 33:380-390. [PMID: 28499622 DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2017.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 299] [Impact Index Per Article: 42.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2017] [Accepted: 04/03/2017] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Modifications in mRNA constitute ancient mechanisms to regulate gene expression post-transcriptionally. N6-methyladenosine (m6A) is the most prominent mRNA modification, and is installed by a large methyltransferase complex (the m6A 'writer'), not only specifically bound by RNA-binding proteins (the m6A 'readers'), but also removed by demethylases (the m6A 'erasers'). m6A mRNA modifications have been linked to regulation at multiple steps in mRNA processing. In analogy to the regulation of gene expression by miRNAs, we propose that the main function of m6A is post-transcriptional fine-tuning of gene expression. In contrast to miRNA regulation, which mostly reduces gene expression, we argue that m6A provides a fast mean to post-transcriptionally maximize gene expression. Additionally, m6A appears to have a second function during developmental transitions by targeting m6A-marked transcripts for degradation.
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- Jean-Yves Roignant
- Laboratory of RNA Epigenetics, Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB), Mainz, 55128, Germany.
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- School of Biosciences, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK.
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Baumgardt K, Melior H, Madhugiri R, Thalmann S, Schikora A, McIntosh M, Becker A, Evguenieva-Hackenberg E. RNase E and RNase J are needed for S-adenosylmethionine homeostasis in Sinorhizobium meliloti. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 2017; 163:570-583. [PMID: 28141492 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.000442] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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The ribonucleases (RNases) E and J play major roles in E. coli and Bacillus subtilis, respectively, and co-exist in Sinorhizobium meliloti. We analysed S. meliloti 2011 mutants with mini-Tn5 insertions in the corresponding genes rne and rnj and found many overlapping effects. We observed similar changes in mRNA levels, including lower mRNA levels of the motility and chemotaxis related genes flaA, flgB and cheR and higher levels of ndvA (important for glucan export). The acyl-homoserine lactone (AHL) levels were also higher during exponential growth in both RNase mutants, despite no increase in the expression of the sinI AHL synthase gene. Furthermore, several RNAs from both mutants migrated aberrantly in denaturing gels at 300 V but not under stronger denaturing conditions at 1300 V. The similarities between the two mutants could be explained by increased levels of the key methyl donor S-adenosylmethionine (SAM), since this may result in faster AHL synthesis leading to higher AHL accumulation as well as in uncontrolled methylation of macromolecules including RNA, which may strengthen RNA secondary structures. Indeed, we found that in both mutants the N6-methyladenosine content was increased almost threefold and the SAM level was increased at least sevenfold. Complementation by induced ectopic expression of the respective RNase restored the AHL and SAM levels in each of the mutants. In summary, our data show that both RNase E and RNase J are needed for SAM homeostasis in S. meliloti.
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- Kathrin Baumgardt
- Institute of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26-32, D-35392 Giessen, Germany.,Present address: CNRS, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, 13 Rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005 Paris, France
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- Institute of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26-32, D-35392 Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26-32, D-35392 Giessen, Germany.,Present address: Institute of Medical Virology, Biomedical Research Center, Justus Liebig University, Schubertstr. 81, D 35392 Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26-32, D-35392 Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Phytopathology and Applied Zoology, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26-32, D-35392 Giessen, Germany.,Present address: Julius Kühn-Institut, Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants (JKI), Institute for Epidemiology and Pathogen Diagnostics, Messeweg 11/12, 38104, Brunswick, Germany
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- Centre of Synthetic Microbiology, Hans-Meerwein-Straße 6, D-35043 Marburg, Germany
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- Centre of Synthetic Microbiology, Hans-Meerwein-Straße 6, D-35043 Marburg, Germany
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Small methyltransferase RlmH assembles a composite active site to methylate a ribosomal pseudouridine. Sci Rep 2017; 7:969. [PMID: 28428565 PMCID: PMC5430550 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-01186-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2016] [Accepted: 03/23/2017] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Eubacterial ribosomal large-subunit methyltransferase H (RlmH) methylates 23S ribosomal RNA pseudouridine 1915 (Ψ1915), which lies near the ribosomal decoding center. The smallest member of the SPOUT superfamily of methyltransferases, RlmH lacks the RNA recognition domain found in larger methyltransferases. The catalytic mechanism of RlmH enzyme is unknown. Here, we describe the structures of RlmH bound to S-adenosyl-methionine (SAM) and the methyltransferase inhibitor sinefungin. Our structural and biochemical studies reveal catalytically essential residues in the dimer-mediated asymmetrical active site. One monomer provides the SAM-binding site, whereas the conserved C-terminal tail of the second monomer provides residues essential for catalysis. Our findings elucidate the mechanism by which a small protein dimer assembles a functionally asymmetric architecture.
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Zheng C, Black KA, Dos Santos PC. Diverse Mechanisms of Sulfur Decoration in Bacterial tRNA and Their Cellular Functions. Biomolecules 2017; 7:biom7010033. [PMID: 28327539 PMCID: PMC5372745 DOI: 10.3390/biom7010033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2017] [Revised: 03/10/2017] [Accepted: 03/16/2017] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Sulfur-containing transfer ribonucleic acids (tRNAs) are ubiquitous biomolecules found in all organisms that possess a variety of functions. For decades, their roles in processes such as translation, structural stability, and cellular protection have been elucidated and appreciated. These thionucleosides are found in all types of bacteria; however, their biosynthetic pathways are distinct among different groups of bacteria. Considering that many of the thio-tRNA biosynthetic enzymes are absent in Gram-positive bacteria, recent studies have addressed how sulfur trafficking is regulated in these prokaryotic species. Interestingly, a novel proposal has been given for interplay among thionucleosides and the biosynthesis of other thiocofactors, through participation of shared-enzyme intermediates, the functions of which are impacted by the availability of substrate as well as metabolic demand of thiocofactors. This review describes the occurrence of thio-modifications in bacterial tRNA and current methods for detection of these modifications that have enabled studies on the biosynthesis and functions of S-containing tRNA across bacteria. It provides insight into potential modes of regulation and potential evolutionary events responsible for divergence in sulfur metabolism among prokaryotes.
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- Chenkang Zheng
- Department of Chemistry, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27101, USA.
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Vaden RM, Oswald NW, Potts MB, MacMillan JB, White MA. FUSION-Guided Hypothesis Development Leads to the Identification of N⁶,N⁶-Dimethyladenosine, a Marine-Derived AKT Pathway Inhibitor. Mar Drugs 2017; 15:md15030075. [PMID: 28294973 PMCID: PMC5367032 DOI: 10.3390/md15030075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2016] [Revised: 03/02/2017] [Accepted: 03/11/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Chemicals found in nature have evolved over geological time scales to productively interact with biological molecules, and thus represent an effective resource for pharmaceutical development. Marine-derived bacteria are rich sources of chemically diverse, bioactive secondary metabolites, but harnessing this diversity for biomedical benefit is limited by challenges associated with natural product purification and determination of biochemical mechanism. Using Functional Signature Ontology (FUSION), we report the parallel isolation and characterization of a marine-derived natural product, N6,N6-dimethyladenosine, that robustly inhibits AKT signaling in a variety of non-small cell lung cancer cell lines. Upon validation of the elucidated structure by comparison with a commercially available sample, experiments were initiated to understand the small molecule’s breadth of effect in a biological setting. One such experiment, a reverse phase protein array (RPPA) analysis of >50 kinases, indicated a specific cellular response to treatment. In all, leveraging the FUSION platform allowed for the rapid generation and validation of a biological mechanism of action hypothesis for an unknown natural product and permitted accelerated purification of the bioactive component from a chemically complex fraction.
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- Rachel M Vaden
- Department of Cell Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75235, USA.
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75235, USA.
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- Department of Cell Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75235, USA.
- Cell & Molecular Biology Department, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75235, USA.
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- Department of Cell Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75235, USA.
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Paulines MJ, Limbach PA. Stable Isotope Labeling for Improved Comparative Analysis of RNA Digests by Mass Spectrometry. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2017; 28:551-561. [PMID: 28105550 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-017-1593-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2016] [Revised: 01/02/2017] [Accepted: 01/03/2017] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Even with the advent of high throughput methods to detect modified ribonucleic acids (RNAs), mass spectrometry remains a reliable method to detect, characterize, and place post-transcriptional modifications within an RNA sequence. Here we have developed a stable isotope labeling comparative analysis of RNA digests (SIL-CARD) approach, which improves upon the original 18O/16O labeling CARD method. Like the original, SIL-CARD allows sequence or modification information from a previously uncharacterized in vivo RNA sample to be obtained by direct comparison with a reference RNA, the sequence of which is known. This reference is in vitro transcribed using a 13C/15N isotopically enriched nucleoside triphosphate (NTP). The two RNAs are digested with an endonuclease, the specificity of which matches the labeled NTP used for transcription. As proof of concept, several transfer RNAs (tRNAs) were characterized by SIL-CARD, where labeled guanosine triphosphate was used for the reference in vitro transcription. RNase T1 digestion products from the in vitro transcript will be 15 Da higher in mass than the same digestion products from the in vivo tRNA that are unmodified, leading to a doublet in the mass spectrum. Singlets, rather than doublets, arise if a sequence variation or a post-transcriptional modification is present that results in a relative mass shift different from 15 Da. Moreover, the use of the in vitro synthesized tRNA transcript allows for quantitative measurement of RNA abundance. Overall, SIL-CARD simplifies data analysis and enhances quantitative RNA modification mapping by mass spectrometry. Graphical Abstract ᅟ.
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- Mellie June Paulines
- Rieveschl Laboratories for Mass Spectrometry, Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, PO Box 210172, Cincinnati, OH, 45221-0172, USA
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- Rieveschl Laboratories for Mass Spectrometry, Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, PO Box 210172, Cincinnati, OH, 45221-0172, USA.
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New RNA-seq approaches for the study of bacterial pathogens. Curr Opin Microbiol 2017; 35:78-87. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2017.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2016] [Revised: 01/09/2017] [Accepted: 01/12/2017] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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