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Series GSE88725 Query DataSets for GSE88725
Status Public on Mar 09, 2017
Title Global analysis of translation termination in E. coli using release factor manipulations
Organism Escherichia coli
Experiment type Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing
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Summary Terminating protein translation accurately and efficiently is critical for both protein fidelity and ribosome recycling for continued translation. The three bacterial release factors (RFs) play key roles: RF1 and 2 recognize stop codons and terminate translation; and RF3 promotes disassociation of bound release factors. Probing release factors mutations with reporter constructs containing programmed frameshifting sequences or premature stop codons had revealed a propensity for readthrough or frameshifting at these specific sites, but their effects on translation genome-wide have not been examined. We performed ribosome profiling on a set of isogenic strains with well-characterized release factor mutations to determine how they alter translation globally. Consistent with their known defects, strains with increasingly severe release factor defects exhibit increasingly severe accumulation of ribosomes over stop codons, indicative of an increased duration of the termination/release phase of translation. Release factor mutant strains also exhibit increased occupancy in the region following the stop codon at a significant number of genes. Our global analysis revealed that, as expected, translation termination is generally efficient and accurate, but that at a significant number of genes (≥ 50) the ribosome signature after the stop codon is suggestive of translation past the stop codon. Even native E. coli K-12 exhibits the ribosome signature suggestive of protein extension, especially at UGA codons, which rely exclusively on the reduced function RF2 allele of the K-12 strain for termination. Deletion of RF3 increases the severity of the defect. We unambiguously demonstrate readthrough and frameshifting protein extensions and their further accumulation in mutant strains for a few select cases. In addition to enhancing recoding, ribosome accumulation over stop codons disrupts attenuation control of biosynthetic operons, and may alter expression of some overlapping genes. Together, these functional alterations may either augment the protein repertoire or produce deleterious proteins.
 
Overall design Samples of WT, ∆RF3, RF2B, and RF2B∆RF3 were analyzed by ribosome profiling and RNA-seq. Over 4 experiments there are 4 replicates of WT, 2 replicates of ∆RF3, 2 replicates of RF2B and 5 replicates of RF2B∆RF3. One experiment (both ribosome profiling and RNA-seq) was performed in minimal media with a single sample for WT and ∆RF3
 
Contributor(s) Baggett N, Zhang Y, Gross C
Citation(s) 28301469
Submission date Oct 13, 2016
Last update date May 15, 2019
Contact name Natalie Baggett
E-mail(s) BAGGETT.NATALIE@GMAIL.COM
Phone 415-476-1493
Organization name UCSF
Department Microbiology and Immunology
Lab Carol Gross
Street address 600 16th Street, S376
City San Francisco
State/province CA
ZIP/Postal code 94158
Country USA
 
Platforms (1)
GPL14548 Illumina HiSeq 2000 (Escherichia coli)
Samples (30)
GSM2344783 WT_exp1_mRNA
GSM2344784 WT_exp2_mRNA
GSM2344785 WT_exp3_mRNA
Relations
BioProject PRJNA348358
SRA SRP091515

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