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BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENE REGULATORY MECHANISMS
Volume 1863, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2020.194546
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- French National Research Council (CNRS)
- French National Research Agency [ANR-13-BSV3-0005-01, ANR-15-CE11-0024-03, ANR-13-BSV3-0005-02, ANR-15-CE11-0024-02]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-13-BSV3-0005, ANR-15-CE11-0024] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
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The largest and best studied group of regulatory small RNAs (sRNAs) in bacteria act by modulating translation or turnover of messenger RNAs (mRNAs) through base-pairing interactions that typically take place near the 5' end of the mRNA. This allows the sRNA to bind the complementary target sequence while the remainder of the mRNA is still being made, creating conditions whereby the action of the sRNA can extend to transcriptional steps, most notably transcription termination. Increasing evidence corroborates the existence of a functional interplay between sRNAs and termination factor Rho. Two general mechanisms have emerged. One mechanism operates in translated regions subjected to sRNA repression. By inhibiting ribosome binding co-transcriptionally, the sRNA uncouples translation from transcription, allowing Rho to bind the nascent RNA and promote termination. In the second mechanism, which functions in 5' untranslated regions, the sRNA antagonizes termination directly by interfering with Rho binding to the RNA or the subsequent translocation along the RNA. Here, we review the above literature in the context of other mechanisms that underlie the participation of Rho-dependent transcription termination in gene regulation. 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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