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ArticleCell2019

Transcription Increases the Cooperativity of Ribonucleoprotein Assembly.

Margaret L Rodgers, Sarah A Woodson

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Article in Cell, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 60 papers.

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60 citing papers in PubMed.

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  17. Divergent molecular assembly and catalytic mechanisms between bacterial and archaeal RNase P in pre-tRNA cleavage.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Margaret L RodgersT.C. Jenkins Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
Sarah A WoodsonT.C. Jenkins Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA. Electronic address: swoodson@jhu.edu.

Funding

TIME RESOLVED HYDROXYL RADICAL FOOTPRINTING OF RNAR01GM060819 · NIGMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI WOODSON, SARAH A. · 1999 to 2019
$6.1M
Assembly Mechanisms of RNA-Protein Complexes for Genetic ControlR35GM136351 · NIGMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI SARAH A. WOODSON · 2020 to 2026
$4.4M
Acquisition of GE Typhoon FLA9500 Variable Mode ImagerS10OD021567 · OD · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI MCCAFFERY, J. MICHAEL · 2017 to 2017
$147k
Visualizing Transcription-Coupled 30S Ribosome Assembly using Single-Molecule and Time-Resolved X-ray FootprintingF32GM125234 · NIGMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI RODGERS, MARGARET LOUISE · 2018 to 2019
$120k
NIGMS NIH HHS F32 GM125234NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM060819NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM136351NIH HHS S10 OD021567
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The synthesis of new ribosomes begins during transcription of the rRNA and is widely assumed to follow an orderly 5' to 3' gradient. To visualize co-transcriptional assembly of ribosomal protein-RNA complexes in real time, we developed a single-molecule platform that simultaneously monitors transcription and protein association with the elongating transcript. Unexpectedly, the early assembly protein uS4 binds newly made pre-16S rRNA only transiently, likely due to non-native folding of the rRNA during transcription. Stable uS4 binding became more probable only in the presence of additional ribosomal proteins that bind upstream and downstream of protein uS4 by allowing productive assembly intermediates to form earlier. We propose that dynamic sampling of elongating RNA by multiple proteins overcomes heterogeneous RNA folding, preventing assembly bottlenecks and initiating assembly within the transcription time window. This may be a common feature of transcription-coupled RNP assembly.

Indexed as

Transcription, GeneticFluorescenceModels, BiologicalProtein BindingProtein StabilityRibonucleoproteinsRibosomal ProteinsRibosomesRNA, MessengerRNA PrecursorsTranscription Elongation, GeneticRibonucleoproteinsRibosomal Proteinsribosomal protein S7RNA, MessengerRNA Precursors16S RNA30S ribosomecolocalization single-molecule spectroscopyco-transcriptional RNA foldingco-transcriptional RNP assemblyribonucleoprotein assemblyribosome biogenesisRNPsingle-molecule fluorescencetranscription

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PMID31761536
PMCPMC6886681

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