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ArticlePloS one2017

Enzymatic activity necessary to restore the lethality due to Escherichia coli RNase E deficiency is distributed among bacteria lacking RNase E homologues.

Masaru Tamura, Daisuke Kageyama, Naoko Honda, Hirofumi Fujimoto, Atsushi Kato

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Article in PloS one, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Masaru TamuraDepartment of Quality Assurance and Radiological Protection, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Toyama, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9488-8749
Daisuke KageyamaInstitute of Agrobiological Sciences, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Owashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
Naoko HondaDepartment of Quality Assurance and Radiological Protection, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Toyama, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Hirofumi FujimotoDepartment of Quality Assurance and Radiological Protection, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Toyama, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Atsushi KatoDepartment of Quality Assurance and Radiological Protection, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Toyama, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
National Institute of Infectious Diseases · JPNational Agriculture and Food Research Organization · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Escherichia coli RNase E (Eco-RNase E), encoded by rne (Eco-rne), is considered the global RNA decay initiator. Although Eco-RNase E is an essential gene product in E. coli, some bacterial species, such as Bacillus subtilis, do not possess Eco-RNase E sequence homologues. B. subtilis instead possesses RNase J1/J2 (Bsu-RNase J1/J2) and RNase Y (Bsu-RNase Y) to execute RNA decay. Here we found that E. coli lacking the Eco-rne gene (Δrne E. coli) was viable conditional on M9 minimal media by introducing Bsu-RNase J1/J2 or Bsu-RNase Y. We also cloned an extremely short Eco-RNase E homologue (Wpi-RNase E) and a canonical sized Bsu-RNase J1/J2 homologue (Wpi-RNase J) from Wolbachia pipientis, an α-proteobacterial endosymbiont of arthropods. We found that Wpi-RNase J restored the colony-forming ability (CFA) of Δrne E. coli, whereas Wpi-RNase E did not. Unexpectedly, Wpi-RNase E restored defective CFA due to lack of Eco-RNase G, a paralogue of Eco-RNase E. Our results indicate that bacterial species that lack Eco-RNase E homologues or bacterial species that possess Eco-RNase E homologues which lack Eco-RNase E-like activities have a modest Eco-RNase E-like function using RNase J and/or RNase Y. These results suggest that Eco-RNase E-like activities might distribute among a wide array of bacteria and that functions of RNases may have changed dynamically during evolutionary divergence of bacterial lineages.

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Genetic EngineeringSequence Homology, Amino AcidAnimalsComputer SimulationEndoribonucleasesEscherichia coliFemaleMutationPhenotypeSymbiosisWolbachiaEndoribonucleasesribonuclease E

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PMID28542621
PMCPMC5436854
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