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ArticleMolecular biology and evolution2022

A Peroxide-Responding sRNA Evolved from a Peroxidase mRNA.

Madeline C Krieger, H Auguste Dutcher, Andrew J Ashford, Rahul Raghavan

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Article in Molecular biology and evolution, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 32% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Origin and adaptive evolutionary trajectory of the 3' UTR-derived sRNA UhpU in Enterobacteriaceae.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  6. Small regulatory RNAs are mediators of theJournal of bacteriology · 2023
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  9. A small RNA is functional inMicrobiology (Reading, England) · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Madeline C KriegerDepartment of Biology, Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA.
H Auguste DutcherDepartment of Biology, Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA.
Andrew J AshfordDepartment of Biology, Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA.
Rahul RaghavanDepartment of Biology, Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6400-1649
Portland State University · US

Funding

PORT (Portland Oral health Research Training)T90DE030859 · NIDCR · OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY · PI WU, HUI · 2021 to 2025
$2.1M
PORT (Portland Oral health Research Training)R90DE031533 · NIDCR · OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY · PI WU, HUI · 2021 to 2025
$821k
Uncovering small RNAs that facilitate stress tolerance in Streptococcus mutansR03DE028409 · NIDCR · PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY · PI RAGHAVAN, RAHUL · 2019 to 2020
$297k
Uncovering small RNAs that contribute to Coxiella burnetii infectionR03AI133023 · NIAID · PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY · PI RAGHAVAN, RAHUL · 2018 to 2019
$149k
NIAID NIH HHS R03 AI133023NIDCR NIH HHS R03 DE028409NIDCR NIH HHS R90 DE031533NIDCR NIH HHS T90 DE030859
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Small RNAs (sRNAs) are important gene regulators in bacteria, but it is unclear how new sRNAs originate and become part of regulatory networks that coordinate bacterial response to environmental stimuli. Using a covariance modeling-based approach, we analyzed the presence of hundreds of sRNAs in more than a thousand genomes across Enterobacterales, a bacterial order with a confluence of factors that allows robust genome-scale sRNA analyses: several well-studied organisms with fairly conserved genome structures, an established phylogeny, and substantial nucleotide diversity within a narrow evolutionary space. We discovered that a majority of sRNAs arose recently, and uncovered protein-coding genes as a potential source from which new sRNAs arise. A detailed investigation of the emergence of OxyS, a peroxide-responding sRNA, revealed that it evolved from a fragment of a peroxidase messenger RNA. Importantly, although it replaced the ancestral peroxidase, OxyS continues to be part of the ancestral peroxide-response regulon, indicating that an sRNA that arises from a protein-coding gene would inherently be part of the parental protein's regulatory network. This new insight provides a fresh framework for understanding sRNA origin and regulatory integration in bacteria.

Indexed as

PeroxidaseRNA, Small UntranslatedEnterobacteriaceaeGene Expression Regulation, BacterialPeroxidesRNA, BacterialRNA, MessengerPeroxidasePeroxidesRNA, BacterialRNA, MessengerRNA, Small UntranslatedOxyROxySperoxidaseperoxidesRNAsRNA evolution

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PMID35084505
PMCPMC8825220
OpenAlexW4210545289

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