Transcriptional pausing at the translation start site operates as a critical checkpoint for riboswitch regulation

Chauvier, Adrien; Picard-Jean, Frédéric; Berger-Dancause, Jean-Christophe; Bastet, Laurène; Naghdi, Mohammad Reza; Dubé, Audrey; Turcotte, Pierre; Perreault, Jonathan et Lafontaine, Daniel A. (2017). Transcriptional pausing at the translation start site operates as a critical checkpoint for riboswitch regulation Nature Communications , vol. 8 , nº 13892. pp. 1-12. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13892.

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On the basis of nascent transcript sequencing, it has been postulated but never demonstrated that transcriptional pausing at translation start sites is important for gene regulation. Here we show that the Escherichia coli thiamin pyrophosphate (TPP) thiC riboswitch contains a regulatory pause site in the translation initiation region that acts as a checkpoint for thiC expression. By biochemically probing nascent transcription complexes halted at defined positions, we find a narrow transcriptional window for metabolite binding, in which the downstream boundary is delimited by the checkpoint. We show that transcription complexes at the regulatory pause site favour the formation of a riboswitch intramolecular lock that strongly prevents TPP binding. In contrast, cotranscriptional metabolite binding increases RNA polymerase pausing and induces Rho-dependent transcription termination at the checkpoint. Early transcriptional pausing may provide a general mechanism, whereby transient transcriptional windows directly coordinate the sensing of environmental cues and bacterial mRNA regulation.

Type de document:	Article
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Centre:	Centre INRS-Institut Armand Frappier
Date de dépôt:	25 juin 2017 14:14
Dernière modification:	12 avr. 2018 18:48
URI:	https://espace.inrs.ca/id/eprint/5334

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