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Article Dans Une Revue Nucleic Acids Research Année : 2023

When translation elongation is impaired, the mRNA is uniformly destabilized by the RNA degradosome, while the concentration of mRNA is altered along the molecule

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mRNA sits at the crossroads of transcription, translation and mRNA degradation. Many questions remain about the coupling of these three processes in Escherichia coli and, in particular, how translation may have an effect on mRNA degradation and transcription. To characterize the interplay between mRNA degradation and translation while accounting for transcription, we altered the translation initiation or elongation and measured the effects on mRNA stability and concentration. Using a mapping method, we analysed mRNA concentration and stability at the local scale all along the transcript. We showed that a decrease in translation initiation efficiency destabilizes the mRNA and leads to a uniform decrease in mRNA concentration throughout the molecule. Prematurely terminating translation elongation by inserting a stop codon is associated with a drop in local mRNA concentration downstream of the stop codon, due to the uncoupling of transcription and translation. In contrast, this translation alteration uniformly destabilizes the coding and ribosome-free regions, in a process triggered by RNase E activity, and its ability to form the RNA degradome. These results demonstrate how ribosomes protect mRNA molecules and highlight how translation, mRNA degradation and transcription are deeply interconnected in the quality control process that avoids unproductive gene expression in cells.
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hal-04012706 , version 1 (03-03-2023)

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Marie-Pierre Duviau, Fan Chen, Anthony Emile, Muriel Cocaign-Bousquet, Laurence Girbal, et al.. When translation elongation is impaired, the mRNA is uniformly destabilized by the RNA degradosome, while the concentration of mRNA is altered along the molecule. Nucleic Acids Research, In press, ⟨10.1093/nar/gkad104⟩. ⟨hal-04012706⟩
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