Korean Journal of Microbiology (미생물학회지)

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Modulation of Escherichia coli RNase E. Action by RraAS2, a Streptomyces coelicolor Ortholog of RraA

Streptomyces coelicolor의 RraA 동족체인 RraAS2에 의한 Escherichia coli RNase E 활성조절

  • 안상미 (중앙대학교 자연과학대학 생명과학과) ;
  • 신은경 (중앙대학교 자연과학대학 생명과학과) ;
  • 염지현 (중앙대학교 자연과학대학 생명과학과) ;
  • 이강석 (중앙대학교 자연과학대학 생명과학과)
  • Published : 2008.06.30
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Abstract

RraA is a recently discovered protein inhibitor that regulates the enzymatic activity of RNase E, which plays a major role in the decay and processing of RNAs in Escherichia coli. It has also been shown to regulate the activity of RNase ES, a functional Streptomyces coelicolor ortholog of RNase E, which has 36% identity to the amino-terminal region of RNase E. There are two open reading frames in S. coelicolor genome that can potentially encode proteins having more than 35.4% similarity to the amino acid sequence of RraA. DNA fragment encoding one of these RraA orthologs, designated as RraAS2 here, was amplified and cloned in to E. coli vector to test whether it has ability to regulate RNase E activity in E. coli cells. Co-expression of RraAS2 partially rescued E. coli cells over-producing RNase E from growth arrest, although not as efficiently as RraA, induced by the increased ribonucleolytic activity in the cells. The copy number of ColEl-type plasmid in these cells was also decreased by 14% compared to that in cells over-producing RNase E only, indicating the ability of RraAS2 to inhibit RNase E action on RNA I. We observed that the expression level of RraAS2 was lower than that of RraA by 4.2 folds under the same culture condition, suggesting that because of inefficient expression of RraAS2 in E. coli cells, co-expression of RraAS2 was not efficiently able to inhibit RNase E activity to the level for proper processing and decay of all RNA species that is required to restore normal cellular growth to the cells over-producing RNase E.

최근 Escherichia coli에서 RNA의 분해와 가공과정에 중추적인 역할을 하는 리보핵산 내부분해효소인 RNase E의 효소활성을 조절하는 단백질 조절자인 RraA가 밝혀졌으며, 이 단백질은 E. coli RNase E의 효소활성 부위와 36%의 유사성을 가지는, Streptomyces coelicolor RNase ES의 효소활성을 조절하는 것으로 알려져 있다. S. coelicolor의 유전체에는 RraA와 아미노산 서열이 35.4% 이상 유사한 단백질을 코딩하는 유전자가 두 개 존재하는데, 그 중 하나인 rraAS2를 클로닝하여 E. coli RNase E의 효소활성을 조절하는지를 알아보았다. 그 결과 세포내에서 RraAS2를 발현시키면 RNase E의 과발현에 의해 저해된 세포의 생장을 RraA와 같이 효과적으로는 아니지만, 어느 정도 복원시키는 것을 확인하였다. 또한 RraAS2가 발현됨으로서 RNase E의 과발현에 의해 증가된 ColE1-타입 플라스미드의 복제 수를 14% 감소시키는 것을 관찰하였다. 이러한 결과는 RraAS2가 RNase E의 RNA I분자에 대한 효소 활성을 저해하는 능력을 가지고 있음을 시사한다. 동일한 배양조건에서 E. coli 세포내에서의 RNase E에 대한 RraAS2의 상대적인 발현양이 RraA에 비해 6.2배 낮은 것을 확인하였고, 이로 인해 RraAS2가 RNase E의 과발현에 의한 세포 생장의 저해를 복원하는데 필요한 모든 RNA의 가공과 분해속도를 효과적으로 조절하지는 못한다는 것을 추론할 수 있다.

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