Discovering riboswitches: the past and the future

K Kavita, RR Breaker - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2023‏ - cell.com
Riboswitches are structured noncoding RNA domains used by many bacteria to monitor the
concentrations of target ligands and regulate gene expression accordingly. In the past 20 …

Riboswitches as therapeutic targets: promise of a new era of antibiotics

E Ellinger, A Chauvier, RA Romero, Y Liu… - Expert opinion on …, 2023‏ - Taylor & Francis
Introduction The growth of antibiotic resistance among bacterial pathogens is an impending
global threat that can only be averted through the development of novel antibacterial drugs …

A sensitive and scalable fluorescence anisotropy single stranded RNA targeting approach for monitoring riboswitch conformational states

M Rivera, OS Ayon, S Diaconescu-Grabari… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024‏ - academic.oup.com
The capacity of riboswitches to undergo conformational changes in response to binding their
native ligands is closely tied to their functional roles and is an attractive target for …

Riboswitch mechanisms: new tricks for an old dog

A Ariza-Mateos, A Nuthanakanti, A Serganov - Biochemistry (Moscow), 2021‏ - Springer
Discovered almost twenty years ago, riboswitches turned out to be one of the most common
regulatory systems in bacteria, with representatives found in eukaryotes and archaea. Unlike …

Transcriptional pause extension benefits the stand-by rather than catch-up Rho-dependent termination

E Song, S Hwang, PR Munasingha… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
Transcriptional pause is essential for all types of termination. In this single-molecule study
on bacterial Rho factor-dependent terminators, we confirm that the three Rho-dependent …

Crystal structure of Escherichia coli thiamine pyrophosphate-sensing riboswitch in the apo state

HK Lee, YT Lee, L Fan, HM Wilt, CE Conrad, P Yu… - Structure, 2023‏ - cell.com
The thiamine pyrophosphate (TPP)-sensing riboswitch is one of the earliest discovered and
most widespread riboswitches. Numerous structural studies have been reported for this …

Direct and indirect control of Rho-dependent transcription termination by the Escherichia coli lysC riboswitch

T Ghosh, S Jahangirnejad, A Chauvier, AM Stringer… - RNA, 2024‏ - rnajournal.cshlp.org
Bacterial riboswitches are molecular structures that play a crucial role in controlling gene
expression to maintain cellular balance. The Escherichia coli lysC riboswitch has been …

RNA cis-regulators are important for Streptococcus pneumoniae in vivo success

I Warrier, A Perry, SM Hubbell, M Eichelman… - PLoS …, 2024‏ - journals.plos.org
Bacteria have evolved complex transcriptional regulatory networks, as well as many diverse
regulatory strategies at the RNA level, to enable more efficient use of metabolic resources …

A methodology for the selection and characterization of riboflavin-overproducing Weissella cibaria strains after treatment with roseoflavin

I Diez-Ozaeta, L Martín-Loarte, ML Mohedano… - Frontiers in …, 2023‏ - frontiersin.org
Fermentative processes by lactic acid bacteria can produce metabolites of interest to the
health and food industries. Two examples are the production of B-group vitamins, and of …

Riboregulation in bacteria: From general principles to novel mechanisms of the trp attenuator and its sRNA and peptide products

E Evguenieva‐Hackenberg - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Gene expression strategies ensuring bacterial survival and competitiveness rely on cis‐and
trans‐acting RNA‐regulators (riboregulators). Among the cis‐acting riboregulators are …