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Discovery of a novel type IIb RelBE toxin-antitoxin system in Mycobacterium tuberculosis defined by co-regulation with an antisense RNA

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MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY
卷 117, 期 6, 页码 1419-1433

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WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.14917

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antisense RNA; double-stranded RNase III dependent decay; Mycobacterium tuberculosis noncoding RNA; toxin-antitoxin regulation; toxin-antitoxin systems

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  1. Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University
  2. College Research Council, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University

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This study reports the discovery of a novel antisense RNA, called asRelE2, which co-regulates the production of RelE2. It also found that the essential cAMP receptor protein transcription factor, Crp, controls the convergent expression of the coding-antisense hybrid TA locus under host-associated stress conditions.
Toxin-antitoxin loci regulate adaptive responses to stresses associated with the host environment and drug exposure. Phylogenomic studies have shown that Mycobacterium tuberculosis encodes a naturally expanded type II toxin-antitoxin system, including ParDE/RelBE superfamily members. Type II toxins are presumably regulated exclusively through protein-protein interactions with type II antitoxins. However, experimental observations in M. tuberculosis indicated that additional control mechanisms regulate RelBE2 type II loci under host-associated stress conditions. Herein, we describe for the first time a novel antisense RNA, termed asRelE2, that co-regulates RelE2 production via targeted processing by the Mtb RNase III, Rnc. We find that convergent expression of this coding-antisense hybrid TA locus, relBE2-asrelE2, is controlled in a cAMP-dependent manner by the essential cAMP receptor protein transcription factor, Crp, in response to the host-associated stresses of low pH and nutrient limitation. Ex vivo survival studies with relE2 and asrelE2 knockout strains showed that RelE2 contributes to Mtb survival in activated macrophages and low pH to nutrient limitation. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a novel tripartite type IIb TA loci and antisense post-transcriptional regulation of a type II TA loci.

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