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ArticlemBio2022

Bacterial Transcription Factors Bind to Coding Regions and Regulate Internal Cryptic Promoters.

Canfeng Hua, Jiadai Huang, Tingting Wang, Yue Sun, Jingui Liu, Linfeng Huang, Xin Deng

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Article in mBio, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
4.9field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Canfeng Hua *Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Konggrid.35030.35, Hong Kong, China.
Jiadai Huang *Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Konggrid.35030.35, Hong Kong, China.
Tingting Wang *Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Konggrid.35030.35, Hong Kong, China.
Yue SunDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Konggrid.35030.35, Hong Kong, China.
Jingui LiuDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Konggrid.35030.35, Hong Kong, China.
Linfeng HuangDivision of Natural and Applied Sciences, Duke Kunshan University, Kunshan, Jiangsu, China.ORCID 0000-0002-0322-4929
Xin DengDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Konggrid.35030.35, Hong Kong, China.ORCID 0000-0003-1580-0089
City University of Hong Kong · HKDuke Kunshan University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transcription factors (TFs) regulate transcription by binding to the specific sequences at the promoter region. However, the mechanisms and functions of TFs binding within the coding sequences (CDS) remain largely elusive in prokaryotes. To this end, we collected 409 data sets for bacterial TFs, including 104 chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing (ChIP-seq) assays and 305 data sets from the systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment (SELEX) in seven model bacteria. Interestingly, these TFs displayed the same binding capabilities for both coding and intergenic regions. Subsequent biochemical and genetic experiments demonstrated that several TFs bound to the coding regions and regulated the transcription of the binding or adjacent genes. Strand-specific RNA sequencing revealed that these CDS-binding TFs regulated the activity of the cryptic promoters, resulting in the altered transcription of the corresponding antisense RNA. TF RhpR hindered the transcriptional elongation of a subgenic transcript within a CDS. A ChIP-seq and Ribo-seq coanalysis revealed that RhpR influenced the translational efficiency of binding genes. Taken together, the present study reveals three regulatory mechanisms of CDS-bound TFs within individual genes, operons, and antisense RNAs, which demonstrate the variability of the regulatory mechanisms of TFs and expand upon the complexity of bacterial transcriptomes.

Indexed as

BacteriaTranscription FactorsBinding SitesDNA, IntergenicPromoter Regions, GeneticRNA, AntisenseDNA, IntergenicRNA, AntisenseTranscription FactorsChIP-seqcoding region binding TFscryptic promotertranscriptional regulation

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PMID36200779
PMCPMC9600179
OpenAlexW4302763121

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