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JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY
卷 183, 期 13, 页码 3885-3889出版社
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JB.183.13.3885-3889.2001
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A general mechanism in bacteria to rescue stalled ribosomes involves a stable RNA encoded by the ssrA gene. This RNA, termed tmRNA, encodes a proteolytic peptide tag which is cotranslationally added to truncated polypeptides, thereby targeting them for rapid proteolysis. To study this ssrA-mediated mechanism in Bacillus subtilis, a bipartite detection system was constructed that was composed of the HrcA transcriptional repressor and the bgaB reporter gene coding for a heat-stable beta -galactosidase fused to an HrcA-controlled promoter. After the predicted proteolysis tag was fused to HrcA, the reporter beta -galactosidase was expressed constitutively at a high level due to the instability of the tagged HrcA, Replacement of the two C-terminal alanine residues of the tag by aspartate rendered the repressor stable. Replacement of the hrcA stop codon by a transcriptional terminator sequence rendered the protein unstable; this was caused by trans translational addition of the proteolytic tag. Inactivating the B, subtilis ssrA or smpB (yvaI) gene prevented the trans translational tagging reaction. Various protease-deficient strains of S, subtilis were tested for proteolysis of tagged HrcA, HrcA remained stable only in clpX or clpP knockouts, which suggests that this ATP-dependent protease is primarily responsible for the degradation of SsrA-tagged proteins in B, subtilis.
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