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MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 82, Issue 5, Pages 1260-1276Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07888.x
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- CNRS [UPR 9073]
- Univ Paris Diderot
- Sorbonne Paris Cite
- EC [LSHP-CT-2005-018923]
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The presence of very different sets of enzymes, and in particular the presence of RNase E and RNase J, has been used to explain significant differences in RNA metabolism between the two model organisms Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis. However, these studies might have somewhat polarized our view of RNA metabolism. Here, we identified a RNase J in Mycobacterium smegmatis that has both 5'-3' exo- and endonucleolytic activity. This enzyme coexists with RNase E in this organism, a configuration that enabled us to study how these two key nucleases collaborate. We demonstrate that RNase E is responsible for the processing of the furA-katG transcript in M. smegmatis and that both RNase E and RNase J are involved in the 5' end processing of all ribosomal RNAs. In contrast to B. subtilis, the activity of RNase J, although required in vivo for 23S rRNA maturation, is not essential in M. smegmatis. We show that the pathways for ribosomal RNA maturation in M. smegmatis are quite different from those observed in E. coli and in B. subtilis. Studying organisms containing different combinations of key ribonucleases can thus significantly broaden our view of the possible strategies that exist to direct RNA metabolism.
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