Genetically encoded transcriptional plasticity underlies stress adaptation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

C Bei, J Zhu, PH Culviner, M Gan, EJ Rubin… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Transcriptional regulation is a critical adaptive mechanism that allows bacteria to respond to
changing environments, yet the concept of transcriptional plasticity (TP)–the variability of …

Characterization and implementation of the MarathonRT template-switching reaction to expand the capabilities of RNA-seq

LT Guo, A Grinko, S Olson, AM Leipold, B Graveley… - Rna, 2024 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
End-to-end RNA-sequencing methods that capture 5′-sequence content without
cumbersome library manipulations are of great interest, particularly for analysis of long …

Compensatory evolution in NusG improves fitness of drug-resistant M. tuberculosis

KA Eckartt, M Delbeau, V Munsamy-Govender… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Drug-resistant bacteria are emerging as a global threat, despite frequently being less fit than
their drug-susceptible ancestors,,,,,,–. Here we sought to define the mechanisms that drive or …

Pathological R-loops in bacteria from engineered expression of endogenous antisense RNAs whose synthesis is ordinarily terminated by Rho

A Pandiyan, J Mallikarjun, H Maheshwari… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
In many bacteria, the essential factors Rho and NusG mediate termination of synthesis of
nascent transcripts (including antisense RNAs) which are not being simultaneously …

End-to-end RT-PCR of long RNA and highly structured RNA

LT Guo, AM Pyle - Methods in Enzymology, 2023 - Elsevier
RNA molecules play important roles in numerous normal cellular processes and disease
states, from protein coding to gene regulation. RT-PCR, applying the power of polymerase …

Diverse intrinsic properties shape transcript stability and stabilization in Mycolicibacterium smegmatis

H Sun, DA Vargas-Blanco, Y Zhou, CS Masiello… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
In mycobacteria, regulation of transcript degradation is known to occur in response to
environmental stress and to facilitate adaptation. However, the mechanisms underlying this …

Identification and characterization of mutations that confer resistance to ethambutol and pyrazinamide in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

M Hiebert - 2024 - mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca
Background: The global rate of antimicrobial resistance is rising for M. tuberculosis, the
leading causative agent of tuberculosis infections. Gold standard phenotypic methods for …

Exploring the Role of the Non-Coding Strand: Antisense Transcription and Gene Regulation

J Ryu - BIBE 2024; The 7th International Conference on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The growing research on antisense transcription has revealed the importance of cellular
function in gene regulation. As the prevalent, unappreciative regard of the non-coding strand …

Recent advances of transcription-translation coupling in bacteria

Z **g, W Chengyuan - Chinese Journal of Nature, 2024 - nature.shu.edu.cn
The central dogma elucidates the process by which genetic information is transferred from
DNA to RNA and ultimately to protein. During transcription, messenger RNA (mRNA) is …

细菌转录翻译偶联机制研究

张晶, 王程远 - 自然杂志, 2024 - nature.shu.edu.cn
中心法则描述了遗传信息从DNA 到RNA 再到蛋白质的传递过程. 转录过程是RNA
聚合酶以DNA 为模板合成信使RNA 的过程, 翻译过程是核糖体利用信使RNA …