Journal
EMBO JOURNAL
Volume 23, Issue 16, Pages 3375-3385Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7600343
Keywords
Fis; GTPase; regulation; ribosome; translation
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- Wellcome Trust Funding Source: Medline
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BipA is a highly conserved protein with global regulatory properties in Escherichia coli. We show here that it functions as a translation factor that is required specifically for the expression of the transcriptional modulator Fis. BipA binds to ribosomes at a site that coincides with that of elongation factor G and has a GTPase activity that is sensitive to high GDP:GTP ratios and stimulated by 70S ribosomes programmed with mRNA and aminoacylated tRNAs. The growth rate-dependent induction of BipA allows the efficient expression of Fis, thereby modulating a range of downstream processes, including DNA metabolism and type III secretion. We propose a model in which BipA destabilizes unusually strong interactions between the 50 untranslated region of fis mRNA and the ribosome. Since BipA spans phylogenetic domains, transcript-selective translational control for the 'fast-track' expression of specific mRNAs may have wider significance.
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