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Gene recoding by synonymous mutations creates promiscuous intragenic transcription initiation in mycobacteria
Each genome encodes some codons more frequently than their synonyms (codon usage bias), but codons are also arranged more frequently into specific pairs (codon pair bias). Recoding viral genomes and yeast or bacterial genes with non-optimal codon pairs has been shown to decrease gene expression. Gen...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10055193/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36993691 http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.17.532606 |
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author | Hegelmeyer, Nuri K. Previti, Mary L. Andrade, Joshua Utama, Raditya Sejour, Richard J. Gardin, Justin Muller, Stephanie Ketchum, Steven Yurovsky, Alisa Futcher, Bruce Goodwin, Sara Ueberheide, Beatrix Seeliger, Jessica C. |
author_facet | Hegelmeyer, Nuri K. Previti, Mary L. Andrade, Joshua Utama, Raditya Sejour, Richard J. Gardin, Justin Muller, Stephanie Ketchum, Steven Yurovsky, Alisa Futcher, Bruce Goodwin, Sara Ueberheide, Beatrix Seeliger, Jessica C. |
author_sort | Hegelmeyer, Nuri K. |
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description | Each genome encodes some codons more frequently than their synonyms (codon usage bias), but codons are also arranged more frequently into specific pairs (codon pair bias). Recoding viral genomes and yeast or bacterial genes with non-optimal codon pairs has been shown to decrease gene expression. Gene expression is thus importantly regulated not only by the use of particular codons but by their proper juxtaposition. We therefore hypothesized that non-optimal codon pairing could likewise attenuate Mtb genes. We explored the role of codon pair bias by recoding Mtb genes (rpoB, mmpL3, ndh) and assessing their expression in the closely related and tractable model organism M. smegmatis. To our surprise, recoding caused the expression of multiple smaller protein isoforms from all three genes. We confirmed that these smaller proteins were not due to protein degradation, but instead issued from new transcription initiation sites positioned within the open reading frame. New transcripts gave rise to intragenic translation initiation sites, which in turn led to the expression of smaller proteins. We next identified the nucleotide changes associated with these new sites of transcription and translation. Our results demonstrated that apparently benign, synonymous changes can drastically alter gene expression in mycobacteria. More generally, our work expands our understanding of the codon-level parameters that control translation and transcription initiation. |
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spelling | pubmed-100551932023-03-30 Gene recoding by synonymous mutations creates promiscuous intragenic transcription initiation in mycobacteria Hegelmeyer, Nuri K. Previti, Mary L. Andrade, Joshua Utama, Raditya Sejour, Richard J. Gardin, Justin Muller, Stephanie Ketchum, Steven Yurovsky, Alisa Futcher, Bruce Goodwin, Sara Ueberheide, Beatrix Seeliger, Jessica C. bioRxiv Article Each genome encodes some codons more frequently than their synonyms (codon usage bias), but codons are also arranged more frequently into specific pairs (codon pair bias). Recoding viral genomes and yeast or bacterial genes with non-optimal codon pairs has been shown to decrease gene expression. Gene expression is thus importantly regulated not only by the use of particular codons but by their proper juxtaposition. We therefore hypothesized that non-optimal codon pairing could likewise attenuate Mtb genes. We explored the role of codon pair bias by recoding Mtb genes (rpoB, mmpL3, ndh) and assessing their expression in the closely related and tractable model organism M. smegmatis. To our surprise, recoding caused the expression of multiple smaller protein isoforms from all three genes. We confirmed that these smaller proteins were not due to protein degradation, but instead issued from new transcription initiation sites positioned within the open reading frame. New transcripts gave rise to intragenic translation initiation sites, which in turn led to the expression of smaller proteins. We next identified the nucleotide changes associated with these new sites of transcription and translation. Our results demonstrated that apparently benign, synonymous changes can drastically alter gene expression in mycobacteria. More generally, our work expands our understanding of the codon-level parameters that control translation and transcription initiation. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 2023-03-17 /pmc/articles/PMC10055193/ /pubmed/36993691 http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.17.532606 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) , which allows reusers to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unadapted form only, for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator. |
spellingShingle | Article Hegelmeyer, Nuri K. Previti, Mary L. Andrade, Joshua Utama, Raditya Sejour, Richard J. Gardin, Justin Muller, Stephanie Ketchum, Steven Yurovsky, Alisa Futcher, Bruce Goodwin, Sara Ueberheide, Beatrix Seeliger, Jessica C. Gene recoding by synonymous mutations creates promiscuous intragenic transcription initiation in mycobacteria |
title | Gene recoding by synonymous mutations creates promiscuous intragenic transcription initiation in mycobacteria |
title_full | Gene recoding by synonymous mutations creates promiscuous intragenic transcription initiation in mycobacteria |
title_fullStr | Gene recoding by synonymous mutations creates promiscuous intragenic transcription initiation in mycobacteria |
title_full_unstemmed | Gene recoding by synonymous mutations creates promiscuous intragenic transcription initiation in mycobacteria |
title_short | Gene recoding by synonymous mutations creates promiscuous intragenic transcription initiation in mycobacteria |
title_sort | gene recoding by synonymous mutations creates promiscuous intragenic transcription initiation in mycobacteria |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10055193/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36993691 http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.17.532606 |
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