Genome-wide mapping of the RNA targets of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa riboregulatory protein RsmN

Romero, Manuel and Silistre, Hazel and Lovelock, Laura and Wright, Victoria J. and Chan, Kok Gan and Hong, Kar Wai and Williams, Paul and Camara, Miguel and Heeb, Stephan (2018) Genome-wide mapping of the RNA targets of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa riboregulatory protein RsmN. Nucleic Acids Research, 46 (13). pp. 6823-6840. ISSN 0305-1048, DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gky324.

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gky324

Abstract

Pseudomonads typically carrymultiple non-identical alleles of the post-transcriptional regulator rsmA. In Pseudomonas aeruginosa, RsmN is notable in that its structural rearrangement confers distinct and overlapping functions with RsmA. However, little is known about the specificities of RsmN for its target RNAs and overall impact on the biology of this pathogen. We purified and mapped 503 transcripts directly bound by RsmN in P. aeruginosa. About 200 of the mRNAs identified encode proteins of demonstrated function including some determining acute and chronic virulence traits. For example, RsmN reduces biofilm development both directly and indirectly via multiple pathways, involving control of Pel exopolysaccharide biosynthesis and c-di-GMP levels. The RsmN targets identified are also shared with RsmA, although deletion of rsmN generally results in less pronounced phenotypes than those observed for ΔrsmA or ΔrsmArsmNind mutants, probably as a consequence of different binding affinities. Targets newly identified for the Rsm system include the small non-coding RNA CrcZ involved in carbon catabolite repression, for which differential binding of RsmN and RsmA to specific CrcZ regions is demonstrated. The results presented here provide new insights into the intricacy of riboregulatory networks involving multiple but distinct RsmA homologues.

Item Type: Article
Funders: UNSPECIFIED
Uncontrolled Keywords: Genome-wide mapping; RNA; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; RsmN
Subjects: Q Science > Q Science (General)
Q Science > QH Natural history
Divisions: Faculty of Science > Institute of Biological Sciences
Depositing User: Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim
Date Deposited: 10 Apr 2019 05:01
Last Modified: 10 Apr 2019 05:01
URI: http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/20878

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