Two antisense RNAs target the transcriptional regulator CsgD to inhibit curli synthesis

Holmqvist, Erik; Reimegård, Johan; Sterk, Maaike; Grantcharova, Nina; Römling, Ute; Wagner, E. Gerhart H.

doi:10.1038/emboj.2010.73

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“…The functionally related RyhB/IsrE are important regulators of iron homeostasis (Masse et al, 2005) and OmrA/B are involved in curli synthesis and the regulation of outer membrane proteins (Guillier and Gottesman, 2008;Holmqvist et al, 2010). These sRNAs control multiple target mRNAs by Hfq-dependent base-pairing.…”

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Dual RNA-seq of pathogen and host

2012

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SummaryThe infection of a eukaryotic host cell by a bacterial pathogen is one of the most intimate examples of cross-kingdom interactions in biology. Infection processes are highly relevant from both a basic research as well as a clinical point of view. Sophisticated mechanisms have evolved in the pathogen to manipulate the host response and vice versa host cells have developed a wide range of anti-microbial defense strategies to combat bacterial invasion and clear infections.However, it is this diversity and complexity that makes infection research so challenging to technically address as common approaches have either been optimized for bacterial or eukaryotic organisms. Instead, methods are required that are able to deal with the often dramatic discrepancy between host and pathogen with respect to various cellular properties and processes. One class of cellular macromolecules that exemplify this host-pathogen heterogeneity is given by their transcriptomes: Bacterial transcripts differ from their eukaryotic counterparts in many aspects that involve both quantitative and qualitative traits. The entity of RNA transcripts present in a cell is of paramount interest as it reflects the cell's physiological state under the given condition. Genome-wide transcriptomic techniques such as RNA-seq have therefore been used for single-organism analyses for several years, but their applicability has been limited for infection studies.The present work describes the establishment of a novel transcriptomic approach for infection biology which we have termed "Dual RNA-seq". Using this technology, it was intended to shed light particularly on the contribution of non-protein-encoding transcripts to virulence, as these classes have mostly evaded previous infection studies due to the lack of suitable methods. The performance of Dual RNA-seq was evaluated in an in vitro infection model based on the important facultative intracellular pathogen Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium and different human cell lines. Dual RNA-seq was found to be capable of capturing all major bacterial and human transcript classes and proved reproducible. During the course of these experiments, a previously largely uncharacterized bacterial small non-coding RNA (sRNA), referred to as STnc440, was identified as one of the most strongly induced genes in intracellular Salmonella.Interestingly, while inhibition of STnc440 expression has been previously shown to cause a virulence defect in different animal models of Salmonellosis, the underlying molecular mechanisms have remained obscure. Here, classical genetics, transcriptomics and biochemical assays proposed a complex model of Salmonella gene expression control that is orchestrated by this sRNA. In particular, STnc440 was found to be involved in the regulation of multiple bacterial target mRNAs by direct base pair interaction with consequences for Salmonella virulence and

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“…Hfq enhances sRNA-target RNA binding Zhang et al 2002;Afonyushkin et al 2005;Kawamoto et al 2006;Soper and Woodson 2008;Holmqvist et al 2010). We monitored association of the Mic*-omp RNA pairs 610 nM Hfq 6 .…”

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“…Two cocrystal structures support two distinct binding surfaces: In S. aureus Hfq, AU 5 G RNA is bound around the inner rim of the proximal face (Schumacher et al 2002), and E. coli Hfq has oligo-A bound on the distal face (Link et al 2009 Holmqvist et al 2010). Thus, if binding-competent RNAs were in molar excess, almost all Hfq would be bound to RNAs.…”

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RNAs actively cycle on the Sm-like protein Hfq

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Hfq, a protein required for small RNA (sRNA)-mediated regulation in bacteria, binds RNA with low-nanomolar K d values and long half-lives of complexes (>100 min). This cannot be reconciled with the 1-2-min response time of regulation in vivo. We show that RNAs displace each other on Hfq on a short time scale by RNA concentrationdriven (active) cycling. Already at submicromolar concentrations of competitor RNA, half-lives of RNA-Hfq complexes are »1 min. We propose that competitor RNA associates transiently with RNA-Hfq complexes, RNAs exchange binding sites, and one of the RNAs eventually dissociates. This solves the ''strong binding-high turnover'' paradox and permits efficient use of the Hfq pool. The homohexameric Hfq ring displays two faces: proximal and distal. Hfq-RNA interactions show a preference of U-rich for proximal and A-rich RNA sequences for distal face binding (de Haseth and Uhlenbeck 1980a;Mikulecky et al. 2004). Simultaneous binding may occur on both sides as well, which could facilitate intermolecular base-pairing and regulation (Rajkowitsch and Schroeder 2007).Structures of Hfq from E. coli, Staphylococcus aureus, and Pseudomonas aeroginosa have been determined by X-ray crystallography (Schumacher et al. 2002;Sauter et al. 2003;Nikulin et al. 2005). Two cocrystal structures support two distinct binding surfaces: In S. aureus Hfq, AU 5 G RNA is bound around the inner rim of the proximal face (Schumacher et al. 2002), and E. coli Hfq has oligo-A bound on the distal face (Link et al. 2009 Holmqvist et al. 2010). Thus, if binding-competent RNAs were in molar excess, almost all Hfq would be bound to RNAs. Hfq-RNA dissociation rate constants in vitro are too low to be compatible with a biologically relevant time scale; half-lives of complexes are in the range of a generation time. If newly induced sRNAs only could access free Hfq after its dissociation from bound RNAs, their activity should be severely delayed. Yet, the time frame from induction of an sRNA to a significant regulatory effect is short (1-2 min) (Massé et al. 2003), and hence sRNAs can acquire Hfq rapidly. This highlights a paradox, with Hfq being tightly sequestered by the intracellular pool of RNAs, contrasted by the need of new sRNAs to rapidly access Hfq. We considered here a conventional cycling model (dissociative/passive) (Fig. 1A) and associative/active cycling (Fig. 1B). In model A, newly synthesized RNA (Fig. 1A, in red) can only bind Hfq after the resident RNA (Fig. 1A, in blue) has dissociated; i.e., the rate of binding of the incoming RNA is limited by the Hfq-RNA dissociation rate constant and is not affected by the concentration of the free RNA. In model B, free RNA transiently binds the Hfq-RNA complex, whereupon one of the RNAs eventually dissociates. Thus, the dissociation rate of the bound RNA is a function of the concentration of the free RNA (Fig. 1B). This would render cycling much more rapidly, and the intracellular pool of binder RNAs would rapidly equilibrate on Hfq. The two models are distinguishable, since th...

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“…OmrA, OmrB, RprA, GcvB, and McaS all bind upstream of the ribosome-binding site and their mode of action likely involves inhibition of translational initiation and/or mRNA destabilization (Holmqvist et al, 2010;Jørgensen et al, 2012;Mika et al, 2012;Thomason et al, 2012).…”

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Phage insertion in mlrA and variations in rpoS limit curli expression and biofilm formation in Escherichia coli serotype O157 : H7

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Biofilm formation in Escherichia coli is a tightly controlled process requiring the expression of adhesive curli fibres and certain polysaccharides such as cellulose. The transcriptional regulator CsgD is central to biofilm formation, controlling the expression of the curli structural and export proteins and the diguanylate cyclase adrA, which indirectly activates cellulose production. CsgD itself is highly regulated by two sigma factors (RpoS and RpoD), multiple DNA-binding proteins, small regulatory RNAs and several GGDEF/EAL proteins acting through c-di-GMP. One such transcription factor MlrA binds the csgD promoter to enhance the RpoS-dependent transcription of csgD. Bacteriophage, often carrying the stx 1 gene, utilize an insertion site in the proximal mlrA coding region of E. coli serotype O157 : H7 strains, and the loss of mlrA function would be expected to be the major factor contributing to poor curli and biofilm expression in that serotype. Using a bank of 55 strains of serotype O157 : H7, we investigated the consequences of bacteriophage insertion. Although curli/biofilm expression was restored in many of the prophagebearing strains by a wild-type copy of mlrA on a multi-copy plasmid, more than half of the strains showed only partial or no complementation. Moreover, the two strains carrying an intact mlrA were found to be deficient in biofilm formation. However, RpoS mutations that attenuated or inactivated RpoS-dependent functions such as biofilm formation were found in .70 % of the strains, including the two strains with an intact mlrA. We conclude that bacteriophage interruption of mlrA and RpoS mutations provide major obstacles limiting curli expression and biofilm formation in most serotype O157 : H7 strains.

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Two antisense RNAs target the transcriptional regulator CsgD to inhibit curli synthesis

Cited by 163 publications

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Dual RNA-seq of pathogen and host

Dual RNA-seq of pathogen and host

RNAs actively cycle on the Sm-like protein Hfq

Phage insertion in mlrA and variations in rpoS limit curli expression and biofilm formation in Escherichia coli serotype O157 : H7

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