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 PMID:33616037  

Dynamic interactions between the RNA chaperone Hfq, small regulatory RNAs, and mRNAs in live bacterial cells.

Seongjin Park | Karine Prévost | Emily M Heideman | Marie-Claude Carrier | Muhammad S Azam | Matthew A Reyer | Wei Liu | Eric Massé | Jingyi Fei
eLife | 2021

RNA-binding proteins play myriad roles in regulating RNAs and RNA-mediated functions. In bacteria, the RNA chaperone Hfq is an important post-transcriptional gene regulator. Using live-cell super-resolution imaging, we can distinguish Hfq binding to different sizes of cellular RNAs. We demonstrate that under normal growth conditions, Hfq exhibits widespread mRNA-binding activity, with the distal face of Hfq contributing mostly to the mRNA binding in vivo. In addition, sRNAs can either co-occupy Hfq with the mRNA as a ternary complex, or displace the mRNA from Hfq in a binding face-dependent manner, suggesting mechanisms through which sRNAs rapidly access Hfq to induce sRNA-mediated gene regulation. Finally, our data suggest that binding of Hfq to certain mRNAs through its distal face can recruit RNase E to promote turnover of these mRNAs in a sRNA-independent manner, and such regulatory function of Hfq can be decoyed by sRNA competitors that bind strongly at the distal face.

Pubmed ID: 33616037

Associated grants

  • Agency: CIHR, Canada
    Id: MOP69005
  • Agency: NIGMS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 GM092830
  • Agency: NIGMS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: DP2 GM128185

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