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ReviewFrontiers in microbiology2020

Regulation of mRNA Stability During Bacterial Stress Responses.

Diego A Vargas-Blanco, Scarlet S Shell

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Review in Frontiers in microbiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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51 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Diego A Vargas-BlancoDepartment of Biology and Biotechnology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, United States.
Scarlet S ShellDepartment of Biology and Biotechnology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, United States.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacteria have a remarkable ability to sense environmental changes, swiftly regulating their transcriptional and posttranscriptional machinery as a response. Under conditions that cause growth to slow or stop, bacteria typically stabilize their transcriptomes in what has been shown to be a conserved stress response. In recent years, diverse studies have elucidated many of the mechanisms underlying mRNA degradation, yet an understanding of the regulation of mRNA degradation under stress conditions remains elusive. In this review we discuss the diverse mechanisms that have been shown to affect mRNA stability in bacteria. While many of these mechanisms are transcript-specific, they provide insight into possible mechanisms of global mRNA stabilization. To that end, we have compiled information on how mRNA fate is affected by RNA secondary structures; interaction with ribosomes, RNA binding proteins, and small RNAs; RNA base modifications; the chemical nature of 5' ends; activity and concentration of RNases and other degradation proteins; mRNA and RNase localization; and the stringent response. We also provide an analysis of reported relationships between mRNA abundance and mRNA stability, and discuss the importance of stress-associated mRNA stabilization as a potential target for therapeutic development.

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bacteriacarbon starvationhypoxiamRNA degradationmRNA stabilitynutrient starvationribonucleic acidstress response

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PMID33013770
PMCPMC7509114

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