期刊
BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
卷 404, 期 11-12, 页码 1085-1100出版社
WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH
DOI: 10.1515/hsz-2023-0215
关键词
Sm-like protein; SmAP; RNA-binding protein; Archaea; RNA polymerase; transcription
Posttranscriptional processes in Bacteria include the association of small regulatory RNAs with a target mRNA. This study focuses on the protein interaction partners of archaeal Sm-like proteins and their binding sites. The results show that the archaeal Sm-like protein PfuSmAP1 preferentially binds messenger RNAs and antisense RNAs, and is co-transcriptionally associated with target RNAs.
Posttranscriptional processes in Bacteria include the association of small regulatory RNAs (sRNA) with a target mRNA. The sRNA/mRNA annealing process is often mediated by an RNA chaperone called Hfq. The functional role of bacterial and eukaryotic Lsm proteins is partially understood, whereas knowledge about archaeal Lsm proteins is scarce. Here, we used the genetically tractable archaeal hyperthermophile Pyrococcus furiosus to identify the protein interaction partners of the archaeal Sm-like proteins (PfuSmAP1) using mass spectrometry and performed a transcriptome-wide binding site analysis of PfuSmAP1. Most of the protein interaction partners we found are part of the RNA homoeostasis network in Archaea including ribosomal proteins, the exosome, RNA-modifying enzymes, but also RNA polymerase subunits, and transcription factors. We show that PfuSmAP1 preferentially binds messenger RNAs and antisense RNAs recognizing a gapped poly(U) sequence with high affinity. Furthermore, we found that SmAP1 co-transcriptionally associates with target RNAs. Our study reveals that in contrast to bacterial Hfq, PfuSmAP1 does not affect the transcriptional activity or the pausing behaviour of archaeal RNA polymerases. We propose that PfuSmAP1 recruits antisense RNAs to target mRNAs and thereby executes its putative regulatory function on the posttranscriptional level.
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