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ArticleJournal of molecular biology2022

Upstream Flanking Sequence Assists Folding of an RNA Thermometer.

Elizabeth A Jolley, Kathryn M Bormes, Philip C Bevilacqua

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Article in Journal of molecular biology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Elizabeth A JolleyDepartment of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, United States; Center for RNA Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, United States.
Kathryn M BormesSidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, United States.
Philip C BevilacquaDepartment of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, United States; Center for RNA Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, United States; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, United States. Electronic address: pcb5@psu.edu.
Thomas Jefferson University · US

Funding

RNA folding and catalysis at the interface of biophysics and genomicsR35GM127064 · NIGMS · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE · PI PHILIP C BEVILACQUA · 2018 to 2026
$3.4M
RNA thermometers and their role in regulating Bacillus subtilis gene expressionF32GM128311 · NIGMS · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE · PI JOLLEY, ELIZABETH · 2018 to 2021
$176k
NIGMS NIH HHS F32 GM128311NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM127064
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many heat shock genes in bacteria are regulated through a class of temperature-sensitive stem-loop (SL) RNAs called RNA thermometers (RNATs). One of the most widely studied RNATs is the Repression Of heat Shock Expression (ROSE) element associated with expression of heat shock proteins. Located in the 5'UTR, the RNAT contains one to three auxiliary hairpins upstream of it. Herein, we address roles of these upstream SLs in the folding and function of an RNAT. Bradyrhizobium japonicum is a nitrogen-fixing bacterium that experiences a wide range of temperatures in the soil and contains ROSE elements, each having multiple upstream SLs. The 5'UTR of the messenger (mRNA) for heat shock protein A (hspA) in B. japonicum has an intricate secondary structure containing three SLs upstream of the RNAT SL. While structure-function studies of the hspA RNAT itself have been reported, it has been unclear if these auxiliary SLs contribute to the temperature-sensing function of the ROSE elements. Herein, we show that the full length (FL) sequence has several melting transitions indicating that the ROSE element unfolds in a non-two-state manner. The upstream SLs are more stable than the RNAT itself, and a variant with disrupted base pairing in the SL immediately upstream of the RNAT has little influence on the melting of the RNAT. On the basis of these results and modeling of the co-transcriptional folding of the ROSE element, we propose that the upstream SLs function to stabilize the transcript and aid proper folding and dynamics of the RNAT.

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5' Untranslated RegionsBradyrhizobiumGene Expression Regulation, BacterialHeat-Shock ProteinsNucleic Acid ConformationRegulatory Sequences, Ribonucleic AcidRNA, BacterialTemperature5' Untranslated RegionsHeat-Shock ProteinsRegulatory Sequences, Ribonucleic AcidRNA, Bacterialflanking sequencefolding guidefunctional RNAILPROSE RNAT

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PMID35952804
PMCPMC9554833
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