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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
卷 42, 期 3, 页码 2003-2014出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt1071
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- Ministry of Education, Science and Technology [2011-0031960]
- Intelligent Synthetic Biology Center of Global Frontier Project
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2011-0031960] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
Superoxide dismutases (SODs) are widely distributed enzymes that convert superoxides to hydrogen peroxide and molecular oxygen, using various metals as cofactors. Many actinobacteria contain genes for both Ni-containing (sodN) and Fe-containing (sodF) SODs. In Streptomyces coelicolor, expression of the sodF and sodN genes is inversely regulated by nickel-specific Nur, a Fur-family regulator. With sufficient nickel, Nur directly represses sodF transcription, while inducing sodN indirectly. Bioinformatic search revealed that a conserved 19-nt stretch upstream of sodN matches perfectly with the sodF down-stream sequence. We found that the sodF gene produced a stable small-sized RNA species (s-SodF) of similar to 90 nt that harbors the anti-sodN sequence complementary to sodN mRNA from the 50-end up to the ribosome binding site. Absence of nearby promoters and sensitivity to 50-phosphate-specific exonuclease indicated that the s-SodF RNA is a likely processed product of sodF mRNA. The s-SodF RNA caused a significant decrease in the half-life of the sodN mRNA. Therefore, Nur activates sodN expression through inhibiting the synthesis of sodF mRNA, from which inhibitory s-SodF RNA is generated. This reveals a novel mechanism by which antagonistic regulation of one gene is achieved by small RNA processed from the 3'UTR of another gene's mRNA.
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