Title :

Posttranscriptional Regulation by Copper with a New Upstream Open Reading Frame

Author(s) :

Roy, Gauthier [Auteur]
Centre d’Infection et d’Immunité de Lille - INSERM U 1019 - UMR 9017 - UMR 8204 [CIIL]
Antoine, Rudy [Auteur]
Centre d’Infection et d’Immunité de Lille - INSERM U 1019 - UMR 9017 - UMR 8204 [CIIL]
Schwartz, Annie [Auteur]
Centre de biophysique moléculaire [CBM]
Slupek, Stéphanie [Auteur]
Centre d’Infection et d’Immunité de Lille - INSERM U 1019 - UMR 9017 - UMR 8204 [CIIL]
Rivera-Millot, Alex [Auteur]
Centre d’Infection et d’Immunité de Lille - INSERM U 1019 - UMR 9017 - UMR 8204 [CIIL]
Boudvillain, Marc [Auteur]
Centre de biophysique moléculaire [CBM]
Jacob-Dubuisson, Françoise [Auteur]
Centre d’Infection et d’Immunité de Lille - INSERM U 1019 - UMR 9017 - UMR 8204 [CIIL]

Journal title :

mBio

Publisher :

American Society for Microbiology

Publication date :

2022

ISSN :

2161-2129

English keyword(s) :

copper homeostasis
posttranscriptional regulation
upstream ORF
DUF2946 family
Bordetella pertussis

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]/Microbiologie et Parasitologie/Bactériologie
Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]/Biochimie, Biologie Moléculaire/Génomique, Transcriptomique et Protéomique [q-bio.GN]

English abstract : [en]

Copper is essential to most living beings but also highly toxic and as such is an important player at the host-pathogen interface. Bacteria have thus developed homeostatic mechanisms to tightly control its intracellular ...
Show more >Copper is essential to most living beings but also highly toxic and as such is an important player at the host-pathogen interface. Bacteria have thus developed homeostatic mechanisms to tightly control its intracellular concentration. Known Cu export and import systems are under transcriptional control, whereas post-transcriptional regulatory mechanisms are yet to be characterized. We identified a three-gene operon, bp2923-bfrG-bp2921, down-regulated by copper and notably encoding a TonB-dependent transporter in Bordetella pertussis. We show here that the protein encoded by the first gene, which is a member of the DUF2946 protein family, represents a new type of upstream Open Reading Frame (uORF) involved in post-transcriptional regulation of the downstream genes. In the absence of copper, the entire operon is transcribed and translated. Perception of copper by the nascent bp2923-coded protein via its conserved CXXC motif triggers Rho-dependent transcription termination between the first and second genes by relieving translation arrest on a conserved C-terminal RAPP motif. Homologs of bp2923 are widespread in bacterial genomes, where they head operons predicted to participate in copper homeostasis. This work has thus unveiled a new mode of genetic regulation by a transition metal and identified a regulatory function for a member of an uncharacterized family of bacterial proteins that we have named CruR, for copper-responsive upstream regulator.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

• Centre d'Infection et d'Immunité de Lille (CIIL) - U1019 - UMR 9017

Source :

Harvested from HAL