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Abstract

We report on the characterization and target analysis of the small (s) RNA(162) in the methanoarchaeon Methanosarcina mazei. Using a combination of genetic approaches, transcriptome analysis and computational predictions, the bicistronic MM2441-MM2440 mRNA encoding the transcription factor MM2441 and a protein of unknown function was identified as a potential target of this sRNA, which due to processing accumulates as three stabile 5' fragments in late exponential growth. Mobility shift assays using various mutants verified that the non-structured single-stranded linker region of sRNA(162) (SLR) base-pairs with the MM2440-MM2441 mRNA internally, thereby masking the predicted ribosome binding site of MM2441. This most likely leads to translational repression of the second cistron resulting in dis-coordinated operon expression. Analysis of mutant RNAs in vivo confirmed that the SLR of sRNA(162) is crucial for target interactions. Furthermore, our results indicate that sRNA(162)-controlled MM2441 is involved in regulating the metabolic switch between the carbon sources methanol and methylamine. Moreover, biochemical studies demonstrated that the 50 end of sRNA(162) targets the 5'-untranslated region of the cis-encoded MM2442 mRNA. Overall, this first study of archaeal sRNA/mRNA-target interactions unraveled that sRNA(162) acts as an antisense (as) RNA on cis- and trans-encoded mRNAs via two distinct domains, indicating that cis-encoded asRNAs can have larger target regulons than previously anticipated.

Document Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Univ Kiel, Inst Allgemeine Mikrobiol, D-24118 Kiel, Germany. Univ Wurzburg, Zentrum Infekt Forsch, D-97080 Wurzburg, Germany. Univ Freiburg, Inst Informat, D-79110 Freiburg, Germany. Schmitz, RA (reprint author), Univ Kiel, Inst Allgemeine Mikrobiol, Bot Garten 1-9, D-24118 Kiel, Germany. rschmitz@ifam.uni-kiel.de
Keywords:	methanosarcina-mazei go1 methanol methyltransferase isozymes small nucleolar rnas acetivorans c2a antisense rnas strain go1 transcriptional regulator translational initiation pyrococcus-furiosus escherichia-coli
Research affiliation:	Kiel University OceanRep > The Future Ocean - Cluster of Excellence
Refereed:	Yes
Open Access Journal?:	Yes
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Projects:	Future Ocean
Date Deposited:	14 May 2014 10:00
Last Modified:	23 Sep 2019 20:37
URI:	https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/24049

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