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Title | Substrate recognition and cryo-EM structure of the ribosome-bound TAC toxin of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. |
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Journal, issue, pages | Nat Commun, Vol. 13, Issue 1, Page 2641, Year 2022 |
Publish date | May 12, 2022 |
![]() | Moise Mansour / Emmanuel Giudice / Xibing Xu / Hatice Akarsu / Patricia Bordes / Valérie Guillet / Donna-Joe Bigot / Nawel Slama / Gaetano D'urso / Sophie Chat / Peter Redder / Laurent Falquet / Lionel Mourey / Reynald Gillet / Pierre Genevaux / ![]() ![]() |
PubMed Abstract | Toxins of toxin-antitoxin systems use diverse mechanisms to control bacterial growth. Here, we focus on the deleterious toxin of the atypical tripartite toxin-antitoxin-chaperone (TAC) system of ...Toxins of toxin-antitoxin systems use diverse mechanisms to control bacterial growth. Here, we focus on the deleterious toxin of the atypical tripartite toxin-antitoxin-chaperone (TAC) system of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, whose inhibition requires the concerted action of the antitoxin and its dedicated SecB-like chaperone. We show that the TAC toxin is a bona fide ribonuclease and identify exact cleavage sites in mRNA targets on a transcriptome-wide scale in vivo. mRNA cleavage by the toxin occurs after the second nucleotide of the ribosomal A-site codon during translation, with a strong preference for CCA codons in vivo. Finally, we report the cryo-EM structure of the ribosome-bound TAC toxin in the presence of native M. tuberculosis cspA mRNA, revealing the specific mechanism by which the TAC toxin interacts with the ribosome and the tRNA in the P-site to cleave its mRNA target. |
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Methods | EM (single particle) / X-ray diffraction |
Resolution | 1.91 - 3.11 Å |
Structure data | EMDB-12261, PDB-7nbu: ![]() PDB-7awk: |
Chemicals | ![]() ChemComp-HOH: ![]() ChemComp-MG: ![]() ChemComp-FME: ![]() ChemComp-ZN: |
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![]() | TOXIN / Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Toxin-Antitoxin-Chaperone / RNase |