Conditional Hfq Association with Small Noncoding RNAs in <named-content content-type="genus-species">Pseudomonas aeruginosa</named-content> Revealed through Comparative UV Cross-Linking Immunoprecipitation Followed by High-Throughput Sequencing

ABSTRACT Bacterial small noncoding RNAs (sRNAs) play posttranscriptional regulatory roles in cellular responses to changing environmental cues and in adaptation to harsh conditions. Generally, the RNA-binding protein Hfq helps sRNAs associate with target mRNAs to modulate their translation and to mo...

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Autores principales: Kotaro Chihara, Thorsten Bischler, Lars Barquist, Vivian A. Monzon, Naohiro Noda, Jörg Vogel, Satoshi Tsuneda
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:94d1d84a0c3c44ceafd1c0a4a0c23b8e2021-12-02T19:47:35ZConditional Hfq Association with Small Noncoding RNAs in <named-content content-type="genus-species">Pseudomonas aeruginosa</named-content> Revealed through Comparative UV Cross-Linking Immunoprecipitation Followed by High-Throughput Sequencing10.1128/mSystems.00590-192379-5077https://doaj.org/article/94d1d84a0c3c44ceafd1c0a4a0c23b8e2019-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSystems.00590-19https://doaj.org/toc/2379-5077ABSTRACT Bacterial small noncoding RNAs (sRNAs) play posttranscriptional regulatory roles in cellular responses to changing environmental cues and in adaptation to harsh conditions. Generally, the RNA-binding protein Hfq helps sRNAs associate with target mRNAs to modulate their translation and to modify global RNA pools depending on physiological state. Here, a combination of in vivo UV cross-linking immunoprecipitation followed by high-throughput sequencing (CLIP-seq) and total RNA-seq showed that Hfq interacts with different regions of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa transcriptome under planktonic versus biofilm conditions. In the present approach, P. aeruginosa Hfq preferentially interacted with repeats of the AAN triplet motif at mRNA 5′ untranslated regions (UTRs) and sRNAs and U-rich sequences at rho-independent terminators. Further transcriptome analysis suggested that the association of sRNAs with Hfq is primarily a function of their expression levels, strongly supporting the notion that the pool of Hfq-associated RNAs is equilibrated by RNA concentration-driven cycling on and off Hfq. Overall, our combinatorial CLIP-seq and total RNA-seq approach highlights conditional sRNA associations with Hfq as a novel aspect of posttranscriptional regulation in P. aeruginosa. IMPORTANCE The Gram-negative bacterium P. aeruginosa is ubiquitously distributed in diverse environments and can cause severe biofilm-related infections in at-risk individuals. Although the presence of a large number of putative sRNAs and widely conserved RNA chaperones in this bacterium implies the importance of posttranscriptional regulatory networks for environmental fluctuations, limited information is available regarding the global role of RNA chaperones such as Hfq in the P. aeruginosa transcriptome, especially under different environmental conditions. Here, we characterize Hfq-dependent differences in gene expression and biological processes in two physiological states: the planktonic and biofilm forms. A combinatorial comparative CLIP-seq and total RNA-seq approach uncovered condition-dependent association of RNAs with Hfq in vivo and expands the potential direct regulatory targets of Hfq in the P. aeruginosa transcriptome.Kotaro ChiharaThorsten BischlerLars BarquistVivian A. MonzonNaohiro NodaJörg VogelSatoshi TsunedaAmerican Society for MicrobiologyarticleCLIP-seqHfqPseudomonas aeruginosabiofilmsnoncoding RNAMicrobiologyQR1-502ENmSystems, Vol 4, Iss 6 (2019)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
topic CLIP-seq
Hfq
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
biofilms
noncoding RNA
Microbiology
QR1-502
spellingShingle CLIP-seq
Hfq
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
biofilms
noncoding RNA
Microbiology
QR1-502
Kotaro Chihara
Thorsten Bischler
Lars Barquist
Vivian A. Monzon
Naohiro Noda
Jörg Vogel
Satoshi Tsuneda
Conditional Hfq Association with Small Noncoding RNAs in <named-content content-type="genus-species">Pseudomonas aeruginosa</named-content> Revealed through Comparative UV Cross-Linking Immunoprecipitation Followed by High-Throughput Sequencing
description ABSTRACT Bacterial small noncoding RNAs (sRNAs) play posttranscriptional regulatory roles in cellular responses to changing environmental cues and in adaptation to harsh conditions. Generally, the RNA-binding protein Hfq helps sRNAs associate with target mRNAs to modulate their translation and to modify global RNA pools depending on physiological state. Here, a combination of in vivo UV cross-linking immunoprecipitation followed by high-throughput sequencing (CLIP-seq) and total RNA-seq showed that Hfq interacts with different regions of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa transcriptome under planktonic versus biofilm conditions. In the present approach, P. aeruginosa Hfq preferentially interacted with repeats of the AAN triplet motif at mRNA 5′ untranslated regions (UTRs) and sRNAs and U-rich sequences at rho-independent terminators. Further transcriptome analysis suggested that the association of sRNAs with Hfq is primarily a function of their expression levels, strongly supporting the notion that the pool of Hfq-associated RNAs is equilibrated by RNA concentration-driven cycling on and off Hfq. Overall, our combinatorial CLIP-seq and total RNA-seq approach highlights conditional sRNA associations with Hfq as a novel aspect of posttranscriptional regulation in P. aeruginosa. IMPORTANCE The Gram-negative bacterium P. aeruginosa is ubiquitously distributed in diverse environments and can cause severe biofilm-related infections in at-risk individuals. Although the presence of a large number of putative sRNAs and widely conserved RNA chaperones in this bacterium implies the importance of posttranscriptional regulatory networks for environmental fluctuations, limited information is available regarding the global role of RNA chaperones such as Hfq in the P. aeruginosa transcriptome, especially under different environmental conditions. Here, we characterize Hfq-dependent differences in gene expression and biological processes in two physiological states: the planktonic and biofilm forms. A combinatorial comparative CLIP-seq and total RNA-seq approach uncovered condition-dependent association of RNAs with Hfq in vivo and expands the potential direct regulatory targets of Hfq in the P. aeruginosa transcriptome.
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author Kotaro Chihara
Thorsten Bischler
Lars Barquist
Vivian A. Monzon
Naohiro Noda
Jörg Vogel
Satoshi Tsuneda
author_facet Kotaro Chihara
Thorsten Bischler
Lars Barquist
Vivian A. Monzon
Naohiro Noda
Jörg Vogel
Satoshi Tsuneda
author_sort Kotaro Chihara
title Conditional Hfq Association with Small Noncoding RNAs in <named-content content-type="genus-species">Pseudomonas aeruginosa</named-content> Revealed through Comparative UV Cross-Linking Immunoprecipitation Followed by High-Throughput Sequencing
title_short Conditional Hfq Association with Small Noncoding RNAs in <named-content content-type="genus-species">Pseudomonas aeruginosa</named-content> Revealed through Comparative UV Cross-Linking Immunoprecipitation Followed by High-Throughput Sequencing
title_full Conditional Hfq Association with Small Noncoding RNAs in <named-content content-type="genus-species">Pseudomonas aeruginosa</named-content> Revealed through Comparative UV Cross-Linking Immunoprecipitation Followed by High-Throughput Sequencing
title_fullStr Conditional Hfq Association with Small Noncoding RNAs in <named-content content-type="genus-species">Pseudomonas aeruginosa</named-content> Revealed through Comparative UV Cross-Linking Immunoprecipitation Followed by High-Throughput Sequencing
title_full_unstemmed Conditional Hfq Association with Small Noncoding RNAs in <named-content content-type="genus-species">Pseudomonas aeruginosa</named-content> Revealed through Comparative UV Cross-Linking Immunoprecipitation Followed by High-Throughput Sequencing
title_sort conditional hfq association with small noncoding rnas in <named-content content-type="genus-species">pseudomonas aeruginosa</named-content> revealed through comparative uv cross-linking immunoprecipitation followed by high-throughput sequencing
publisher American Society for Microbiology
publishDate 2019
url https://doaj.org/article/94d1d84a0c3c44ceafd1c0a4a0c23b8e
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