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Rajendran K, Kumar V, Raja I, Kumariah M, Tennyson J. Identification of sigma factor 54-regulated small non-coding RNAs by employing genome-wide and transcriptome-based methods in rhizobium strains. 3 Biotech 2022; 12:328. [PMID: 36276463 PMCID: PMC9584007 DOI: 10.1007/s13205-022-03394-x] [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: 09/15/2021] [Accepted: 10/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/01/2022] Open
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Rhizobium-legume symbiosis is considered as the major contributor of biological nitrogen fixation. Bacterial small non-coding RNAs are crucial regulators in several cellular adaptation processes that occur due to the changes in metabolism, physiology, or the external environment. Identifying and analysing the conditional specific/sigma factor-54 regulated sRNAs provides a better understanding of sRNA regulation/mechanism in symbiotic association. In the present study, we have identified sigma factor 54-regulated sRNAs from the genome of six rhizobium strains and from the RNA-seq data of free-living and symbiotic conditions of Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiens USDA 110 to identify the novel putative sRNAs that are over expressed during the regulation of nitrogen fixation. A total of 1351 sRNAs were predicted from the genome of six rhizobium strains and 1375 sRNAs were predicted from the transcriptome data of B. diazoefficiens USDA 110. Analysis of target mRNA for these novel sRNAs was inferred to target several nodulation and nitrogen fixation genes including nodC, nodJ, nodY, nodJ, nodM, nodW, nodZ, nifD, nifN, nifQ, fixK, fixL, fdx, nolB, and several cytochrome proteins. In addition, sRNAs of B. diazoefficiens USDA 110 which targeted the regulatory genes of nitrogen fixation were confirmed by wet-lab experiments with semi-quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. Predicted target mRNAs were functionally classified based on the COG analysis and GO annotations. The genome-wide and transcriptome-based integrated methods have led to the identification of several sRNAs involved in the nodulation and symbiosis. Further validation of the functional role of these sRNAs can help in exploring the role of sRNAs in nitrogen metabolism during free-living and symbiotic association with legumes. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s13205-022-03394-x.
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- Kasthuri Rajendran
- Department of Plant Morphology and Algology, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamil Nadu 625 021 India
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- Department of Plant Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamil Nadu 625 021 India
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- Department of Plant Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamil Nadu 625 021 India
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- Department of Plant Morphology and Algology, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamil Nadu 625 021 India
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- Department of Plant Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamil Nadu 625 021 India
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Lejars M, Hajnsdorf E. The world of asRNAs in Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENE REGULATORY MECHANISMS 2020; 1863:194489. [PMID: 31935527 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2020.194489] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2019] [Accepted: 01/09/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Bacteria exhibit an amazing diversity of mechanisms controlling gene expression to both maintain essential functions and modulate accessory functions in response to environmental cues. Over the years, it has become clear that bacterial regulation of gene expression is still far from fully understood. This review focuses on antisense RNAs (asRNAs), a class of RNA regulators defined by their location in cis and their perfect complementarity with their targets, as opposed to small RNAs (sRNAs) which act in trans with only short regions of complementarity. For a long time, only few functional asRNAs in bacteria were known and were almost exclusively found on mobile genetic elements (MGEs), thus, their importance among the other regulators was underestimated. However, the extensive application of transcriptomic approaches has revealed the ubiquity of asRNAs in bacteria. This review aims to present the landscape of studied asRNAs in bacteria by comparing 67 characterized asRNAs from both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. First we describe the inherent ambiguity in the existence of asRNAs in bacteria, second, we highlight their diversity and their involvement in all aspects of bacterial life. Finally we compare their location and potential mode of action toward their target between Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria and present tendencies and exceptions that could lead to a better understanding of asRNA functions.
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- Maxence Lejars
- UMR8261, CNRS, Université de Paris, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, 75005 Paris, France.
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- UMR8261, CNRS, Université de Paris, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, 75005 Paris, France.
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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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Mohanty BK, Kushner SR. Analysis of post-transcriptional RNA metabolism in prokaryotes. Methods 2019; 155:124-130. [PMID: 30448478 PMCID: PMC6568318 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2018.11.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2018] [Revised: 11/08/2018] [Accepted: 11/13/2018] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Post-transcriptional RNA metabolic pathways play important roles in permitting prokaryotes to operate under a variety of environmental conditions. Although significant progress has been made during the last decade in deciphering RNA processing pathways in a number of bacteria, a complete understanding of post-transcriptional RNA metabolism in any single microorganism is far from reality. Here we describe multiple experimental approaches that can be used to study mRNA stability, tRNA and rRNA processing, sRNA metabolism, and polyadenylation in prokaryotes. The methods described here can be readily utilized in both Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria with simple modifications.
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MESH Headings
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Northern
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA, Complementary/biosynthesis
- DNA, Complementary/genetics
- Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis
- Deoxyribonuclease I/chemistry
- Escherichia coli/genetics
- Escherichia coli/metabolism
- Half-Life
- Polyadenylation
- RNA Processing, Post-Transcriptional
- RNA Stability
- RNA, Bacterial/genetics
- RNA, Bacterial/metabolism
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- RNA, Transfer/genetics
- RNA, Transfer/metabolism
- Sequence Analysis, DNA/methods
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- Bijoy K. Mohanty
- Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, Tel. No. 706-542-8000,
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- Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, Tel. No. 706-542-8000,
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Mat-Sharani S, Firdaus-Raih M. Computational discovery and annotation of conserved small open reading frames in fungal genomes. BMC Bioinformatics 2019; 19:551. [PMID: 30717662 PMCID: PMC7394265 DOI: 10.1186/s12859-018-2550-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2018] [Accepted: 11/30/2018] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Small open reading frames (smORF/sORFs) that encode short protein sequences are often overlooked during the standard gene prediction process thus leading to many sORFs being left undiscovered and/or misannotated. For many genomes, a second round of sORF targeted gene prediction can complement the existing annotation. In this study, we specifically targeted the identification of ORFs encoding for 80 amino acid residues or less from 31 fungal genomes. We then compared the predicted sORFs and analysed those that are highly conserved among the genomes. RESULTS A first set of sORFs was identified from existing annotations that fitted the maximum of 80 residues criterion. A second set was predicted using parameters that specifically searched for ORF candidates of 80 codons or less in the exonic, intronic and intergenic sequences of the subject genomes. A total of 1986 conserved sORFs were predicted and characterized. CONCLUSIONS It is evident that numerous open reading frames that could potentially encode for polypeptides consisting of 80 amino acid residues or less are overlooked during standard gene prediction and annotation. From our results, additional targeted reannotation of genomes is clearly able to complement standard genome annotation to identify sORFs. Due to the lack of, and limitations with experimental validation, we propose that a simple conservation analysis can provide an acceptable means of ensuring that the predicted sORFs are sufficiently clear of gene prediction artefacts.
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- Shuhaila Mat-Sharani
- Centre for Frontier Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, UKM, 43600, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia.,Malaysia Genome Institute, Ministry of Science, Technology & Innovation, Jalan Bangi, 43000, Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Centre for Frontier Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, UKM, 43600, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia. .,Institute of Systems Biology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, UKM, 43600, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia.
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Fuli X, Wenlong Z, Xiao W, Jing Z, Baohai H, Zhengzheng Z, Bin-Guang M, Youguo L. A Genome-Wide Prediction and Identification of Intergenic Small RNAs by Comparative Analysis in Mesorhizobium huakuii 7653R. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:1730. [PMID: 28943874 PMCID: PMC5596092 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01730] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2017] [Accepted: 08/24/2017] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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In bacteria, small non-coding RNAs (sRNAs) are critical regulators of cellular adaptation to changes in metabolism, physiology, or the external environment. In the last decade, more than 2000 of sRNA families have been reported in the Rfam database and have been shown to exert various regulatory functions in bacterial transcription and translation. However, little is known about sRNAs and their functions in Mesorhizobium. Here, we predicted putative sRNAs in the intergenic regions (IGRs) of M. huakuii 7653R by genome-wide comparisons with four related Mesorhizobial strains. The expression and transcribed regions of candidate sRNAs were analyzed using a set of high-throughput RNA deep sequencing data. In all, 39 candidate sRNAs were found, with 5 located in the symbiotic megaplasmids and 34 in the chromosome of M. huakuii 7653R. Of these, 24 were annotated as functional sRNAs in the Rfam database and 15 were recognized as putative novel sRNAs. The expression of nine selected sRNAs was confirmed by Northern blotting, and most of the nine selected sRNAs were highly expressed in 28 dpi nodules and under symbiosis-mimicking conditions. For those putative novel sRNAs, functional categorizations of their target genes were performed by analyzing the enriched GO terms. In addition, MH_s15 was shown to be an abundant and conserved sRNA.
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- Xie Fuli
- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhan, China
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