ArticleNucleic acids research2017
Direct modulation of T-box riboswitch-controlled transcription by protein synthesis inhibitors.
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- A Riboswitch-Driven Era of New Antibacterials.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Lineage-specific insertions in T-box riboswitches modulate antibiotic binding and action.Nucleic acids research · 2022Article
- Adaptor Molecules Epitranscriptome Reprograms Bacterial Pathogenicity.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Review
- Another layer of complexity in Staphylococcus aureus methionine biosynthesis control: unusual RNase III-driven T-box riboswitch cleavage determines met operon mRNA stability and decay.Nucleic acids research · 2021Article
- TBDB: a database of structurally annotated T-box riboswitch:tRNA pairs.Nucleic acids research · 2021Article
- Small-Molecule Antibiotics Inhibiting tRNA-Regulated Gene Expression Is a Viable Strategy for Targeting Gram-Positive Bacteria.Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 2020Article
- Aminoglycoside riboswitch control of the expression of integron associated aminoglycoside resistance adenyltransferases.Virulence · 2020Article
- Unboxing the T-box riboswitches-A glimpse into multivalent and multimodal RNA-RNA interactions.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. RNA · 2020Review
- RNA drug discovery: Conformational restriction enhances specific modulation of the T-box riboswitch function.Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry · 2020Article
- Structural basis of amino acid surveillance by higher-order tRNA-mRNA interactions.Nature structural & molecular biology · 2019Article
- An evolving tale of two interacting RNAs-themes and variations of the T-box riboswitch mechanism.IUBMB life · 2019Review
- Integron-Derived Aminoglycoside-Sensing Riboswitches Control Aminoglycoside Acetyltransferase Resistance Gene Expression.Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 2019Article
- Noncoding RNA.Microbiology spectrum · 2019Review
- The T-Box Riboswitch: tRNA as an Effector to Modulate Gene Regulation.Microbiology spectrum · 2018Review
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Abstract
Recently, it was discovered that exposure to mainstream antibiotics activate numerous bacterial riboregulators that control antibiotic resistance genes including metabolite-binding riboswitches and other transcription attenuators. However, the effects of commonly used antibiotics, many of which exhibit RNA-binding properties, on the widespread T-box riboswitches, remain unknown. In Staphylococcus aureus, a species-specific glyS T-box controls the supply of glycine for both ribosomal translation and cell wall synthesis, making it a promising target for next-generation antimicrobials. Here, we report that specific protein synthesis inhibitors could either significantly increase T-box-mediated transcription antitermination, while other compounds could suppress it, both in vitro and in vivo. In-line probing of the full-length T-box combined with molecular modelling and docking analyses suggest that the antibiotics that promote transcription antitermination stabilize the T-box:tRNA complex through binding specific positions on stem I and the Staphylococcal-specific stem Sa. By contrast, the antibiotics that attenuate T-box transcription bind to other positions on stem I and do not interact with stem Sa. Taken together, our results reveal that the transcription of essential genes controlled by T-box riboswitches can be directly modulated by commonly used protein synthesis inhibitors. These findings accentuate the regulatory complexities of bacterial response to antimicrobials that involve multiple riboregulators.
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