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Programming Riboswitch Function Using Principles of Cotranscriptional RNA Folding
Programming Riboswitch Function Using Principles of Cotranscriptional RNA Folding
Programming Riboswitch Function Using Principles of Cotranscriptional RNA Folding

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자료유형  
 학위논문 서양
최종처리일시  
20250211151922
ISBN  
9798382761381
DDC  
574
저자명  
Bushhouse, David Z.
서명/저자  
Programming Riboswitch Function Using Principles of Cotranscriptional RNA Folding
발행사항  
[Sl] : Northwestern University, 2024
발행사항  
Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
형태사항  
301 p
주기사항  
Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11, Section: B.
주기사항  
Advisor: Lucks, Julius B.
학위논문주기  
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2024.
초록/해제  
요약All organisms adapt to changes in their environment, which requires mechanisms to sense the outside world and alter gene expression in response. Transcription, the enzymatic synthesis of RNA from a DNA template, is a highly regulated process that enables organisms to express different genes at different times at different amplitudes. Transcription is subject to many gene regulatory control mechanisms to ensure that expression of each transcript is appropriate for a given cellular state. For example, a suite of conditional attenuators such as RNA thermometers and riboswitches control transcription termination. Riboswitches are an ancient class of cis- regulatory RNA gene-regulatory elements found across all domains of life. These elements take advantage of the ability of RNA to form intricate structures during transcription to sense intracellular concentrations of their cognate ligands, and alter gene expression in response.A long-standing and intriguing question about riboswitch biology is how transcriptional riboswitches can make fast folding decisions on the timescale of active transcription. To date a number of transcriptional riboswitch folding pathways have been deciphered. Collectively, these studies are revealing that transcriptional riboswitches navigate a complex decision landscape that pushes them to one of two final structural states based on the conditional execution of an internal strand displacement process. These bifurcating folding pathways must maintain a delicate balance in order to maintain robust dynamic range, raising the intriguing question of whether transcriptional riboswitches tune their function by manipulating the favorability of strand displacement. Using the Clostridium beijerinckii pfl ZTP riboswitch as a model, we performed fine-grained mutational analysis of the strand displacement process that governs the bifurcation of this riboswitch's folding pathway. These results illustrate that the dynamic range of this riboswitch can be finely tuned over an order of magnitude from 2.4-34-fold by mutating the invading strand to contain kinetic barriers that slow down strand displacement (e.g. mismatches, deletions, bulges). We also investigate the accessory regions of the Cbe pfl riboswitch, identifying key roles for the leader sequence and linker region in controlling riboswitch function. Interestingly, we identify a role for RNAP pausing in controlling ZTP riboswitch dynamic range, but only in the context of purine starvation.Another long-standing question about riboswitch biology is how transcriptional riboswitches tune their sensitivity to ligand. Understanding how riboswitch sensitivity is controlled is critical to understanding how highly conserved aptamer domains are deployed in a variety of contexts with different sensitivity demands. Here we uncover new roles by which RNA folding dynamics control riboswitch sensitivity in cells. By investigating the Clostridium beijerinckii pfl ZTP riboswitch, we identify multiple mechanistic routes of altering expression platform sequence and structure to slow RNA folding, all of which enhance riboswitch sensitivity. Applying these methods to riboswitches with diverse aptamer architectures that regulate transcription and translation with ON and OFF logic demonstrates the generality of our findings, indicating that any riboswitch that operates in a kinetic regime can be sensitized by slowing expression platform folding. Comparison of the most sensitized versions of these switches to equilibrium aptamer:ligand dissociation constants suggests a limit to the sensitivities achievable by kinetic RNA switches. Our results add to the growing suite of knowledge and approaches that can be used to rationally program cotranscriptional RNA folding for biotechnology applications, and suggest general RNA folding principles for understanding dynamic RNA systems in other areas of biology. Careful analysis of ZTP riboswitch expression platform sequences reveal a novel anti- termination mechanism used across bacteria. We find that the presence of nascent RNA structures within the 5' upstream context of a terminator can slow or occlude its formation in the RNAP exit channel, leading to weaker termination due to a 'tug-of-war' (TOW) between the upstream RNA structure and the terminator.
일반주제명  
Biology
일반주제명  
Biochemistry
일반주제명  
Biophysics
일반주제명  
Genetics
키워드  
Biosensing
키워드  
Riboswitch
키워드  
RNA
키워드  
RNA engineering
키워드  
RNA folding
키워드  
RNA structure
기타저자  
Northwestern University Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
기본자료저록  
Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-11B.
전자적 위치 및 접속  
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