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MOLECULAR CELL
Volume 58, Issue 3, Pages 393-405Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2015.03.013
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- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Fonds de la Recherche en sante du Quebec
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During ribosomal and transfer RNA maturation, external transcribed spacer (ETS) and internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequences are excised and, as non-functional by-products, are rapidly degraded. However, we report that the 3'ETS of the glyW-cysT-leuZ polycistronic tRNA precursor is highly and specifically enriched by co-purification with at least two different small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs), RyhB and RybB. Both sRNAs are shown to base pair with the same region in the 3'ETS of leuZ (3'ETSleuZ). Disrupting the pairing by mutating 3'ETSleuZ strongly increased the activity of sRNAs, even under non-inducing conditions. Our results indicate that 3'ETSleuZ prevents sRNA-dependent remodeling of tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle fluxes and decreases antibiotic sensitivity when sRNAs are transcriptionally repressed. This suggests that 3'ETSleuZ functions as a sponge to absorb transcriptional noise from repressed sRNAs. Additional data showing RybB and MicF sRNAs are co-purified with ITSmetZ-metW and ITSmetW-metV strongly suggest a wide distribution of this phenomenon.
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