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- Title
RrmA regulates the stability of specific transcripts in response to both nitrogen source and oxidative stress.
- Authors
Krol, Kinga; Morozov, Igor Y.; Jones, Meriel G.; Wyszomirski, Tomasz; Weglenski, Piotr; Dzikowska, Agnieszka; Caddick, Mark X.
- Abstract
Differential regulation of transcript stability is an effective means by which an organism can modulate gene expression. A well-characterized example is glutamine signalled degradation of specific transcripts in Aspergillus nidulans. In the case of areA, which encodes a wide-domain transcription factor mediating nitrogen metabolite repression, the signal is mediated through a highly conserved region of the 3′ UTR. Utilizing this RNA sequence we isolated RrmA, an RNA recognition motif protein. Disruption of the respective gene led to loss of both glutamine signalled transcript degradation as well as nitrate signalled stabilization of niaD m RNA. However, nitrogen starvation was shown to act independently of RrmA in stabilizing certain transcripts. RrmA was also implicated in the regulation of arginine catabolism gene expression and the oxidative stress responses at the level of m RNA stability. Δ rrmA mutants are hypersensitive to oxidative stress. This phenotype correlates with destabilization of eifE and dhsA m RNA. eifE encodes eIF5A, a translation factor within which a conserved lysine is post-translationally modified to hypusine, a process requiring DhsA. Intriguingly, for specific transcripts RrmA mediates both stabilization and destabilization and the specificity of the signals transduced is transcript dependent, suggesting it acts in consort with other factors which differ between transcripts.
- Subjects
PHYSIOLOGICAL effects of nitrogen; OXIDATIVE stress; TRANSCRIPTION factors; GENE expression; GLUTAMINE; ASPERGILLUS nidulans; CELLULAR signal transduction; NON-coding RNA
- Publication
Molecular Microbiology, 2013, Vol 89, Issue 5, p975
- ISSN
0950-382X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/mmi.12324