TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bauriedl, Saskia
A1  - Gerovac, Milan
A1  - Heidrich, Nadja
A1  - Bischler, Thorsten
A1  - Barquist, Lars
A1  - Vogel, Jörg
A1  - Schoen, Christoph
T1  - The minimal meningococcal ProQ protein has an intrinsic capacity for structure-based global RNA recognition
JF  - Nature Communications
N2  - FinO-domain proteins are a widespread family of bacterial RNA-binding proteins with regulatory functions. Their target spectrum ranges from a single RNA pair, in the case of plasmid-encoded FinO, to global RNA regulons, as with enterobacterial ProQ. To assess whether the FinO domain itself is intrinsically selective or promiscuous, we determine in vivo targets of Neisseria meningitidis, which consists of solely a FinO domain. UV-CLIP-seq identifies associations with 16 small non-coding sRNAs and 166 mRNAs. Meningococcal ProQ predominantly binds to highly structured regions and generally acts to stabilize its RNA targets. Loss of ProQ alters transcript levels of >250 genes, demonstrating that this minimal ProQ protein impacts gene expression globally. Phenotypic analyses indicate that ProQ promotes oxidative stress resistance and DNA damage repair. We conclude that FinO domain proteins recognize some abundant type of RNA shape and evolve RNA binding selectivity through acquisition of additional regions that constrain target recognition. FinO-domain proteins are bacterial RNA-binding proteins with a wide range of target specificities. Here, the authors employ UV CLIP-seq and show that minimal ProQ protein of Neisseria meningitidis binds to various small non-coding RNAs and mRNAs involved in virulence.
KW  - Neisseria meningitidis
KW  - natural transformation
KW  - dual function
KW  - FinO family
KW  - HFQ
KW  - chaperone
KW  - transcriptome
KW  - regulator
KW  - sequence
KW  - in vivo
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-230040
VL  - 11
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Whisnant, Adam W.
A1  - Jürges, Christopher S.
A1  - Hennig, Thomas
A1  - Wyler, Emanuel
A1  - Prusty, Bhupesh
A1  - Rutkowski, Andrzej J.
A1  - L'hernault, Anne
A1  - Djakovic, Lara
A1  - Göbel, Margarete
A1  - Döring, Kristina
A1  - Menegatti, Jennifer
A1  - Antrobus, Robin
A1  - Matheson, Nicholas J.
A1  - Künzig, Florian W. H.
A1  - Mastrobuoni, Guido
A1  - Bielow, Chris
A1  - Kempa, Stefan
A1  - Liang, Chunguang
A1  - Dandekar, Thomas
A1  - Zimmer, Ralf
A1  - Landthaler, Markus
A1  - Grässer, Friedrich
A1  - Lehner, Paul J.
A1  - Friedel, Caroline C.
A1  - Erhard, Florian
A1  - Dölken, Lars
T1  - Integrative functional genomics decodes herpes simplex virus 1
JF  - Nature Communications
N2  - The predicted 80 open reading frames (ORFs) of herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) have been intensively studied for decades. Here, we unravel the complete viral transcriptome and translatome during lytic infection with base-pair resolution by computational integration of multi-omics data. We identify a total of 201 transcripts and 284 ORFs including all known and 46 novel large ORFs. This includes a so far unknown ORF in the locus deleted in the FDA-approved oncolytic virus Imlygic. Multiple transcript isoforms expressed from individual gene loci explain translation of the vast majority of ORFs as well as N-terminal extensions (NTEs) and truncations. We show that NTEs with non-canonical start codons govern the subcellular protein localization and packaging of key viral regulators and structural proteins. We extend the current nomenclature to include all viral gene products and provide a genome browser that visualizes all the obtained data from whole genome to single-nucleotide resolution. Here, using computational integration of multi-omics data, the authors provide a detailed transcriptome and translatome of herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1), including previously unidentified ORFs and N-terminal extensions. The study also provides a HSV-1 genome browser and should be a valuable resource for further research.
KW  - infected-cell protein
KW  - messenger RNA
KW  - binding protein
KW  - type 1
KW  - identification
KW  - ICP27
KW  - translation
KW  - expression
KW  - sequence
KW  - domain
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-229884
VL  - 11
ER  -