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ArticleCellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS2020

Bacterial stress defense: the crucial role of ribosome speed.

Manlu Zhu, Xiongfeng Dai

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Article in Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Manlu ZhuSchool of Life Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China. zhumanlu@mail.ccnu.edu.cn.
Xiongfeng DaiSchool of Life Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China. daixiongfeng@mail.ccnu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8225-1799
Central China Normal University · CN

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China No. 31700089, No. 31700039National Natural Science Foundation of China No. 31870028
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In nature, bacteria are constantly adapting to various stressful conditions. Timely activation of stress response programs is crucial for bacteria to smoothly survive under stressful conditions. Stress response, demanding the de novo synthesis of many defense proteins, is generally activated at the transcriptional level by specific regulators. However, the effect of the global protein translational status on stress response has been largely overlooked. The translational capacity is limited by the number of translating ribosomes and the translational elongation rate. Recent work has shown that certain environmental stressors (e.g. oxidative stress) could severely compromise the stress response progress of bacteria by causing either slow-down or even complete stalling of the translational elongation process. The maintenance of ribosome elongation rate, being crucial for timely synthesis of stress defense proteins, becomes the physiological bottleneck that limits the survival of bacteria in some stressful conditions. Here, we briefly summarize some recent progress on the translational status of bacteria under two distinct stress conditions, nutrient deprivation and oxidative stress. We further discuss several important open questions on the translational regulation of bacteria during stress. The ribosome translation should be investigated in parallel with traditional transcriptional regulation in order to gain a better understanding on bacterial stress defense.

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Escherichia coliGastrointestinal MicrobiomeHumansNutrientsProtein BiosynthesisRibosomesStress, PhysiologicalNutrientsNutrient deprivationOxidative stressRibosome profilingStress responseTranslational elongation rate

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PMID31552449
PMCPMC11105067
OpenAlexW2975907391

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