ジャーナル: Nat Commun / 年: 2023 タイトル: Acetylation regulates the oligomerization state and activity of RNase J, the Helicobacter pylori major ribonuclease. 著者: Alejandro Tejada-Arranz / Aleksei Lulla / Maxime Bouilloux-Lafont / Evelyne Turlin / Xue-Yuan Pei / Thibaut Douché / Mariette Matondo / Allison H Williams / Bertrand Raynal / Ben F Luisi / Hilde De Reuse / 要旨: In the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori, post-transcriptional regulation relies strongly on the activity of the essential ribonuclease RNase J. Here, we elucidated the crystal and cryo-EM ...In the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori, post-transcriptional regulation relies strongly on the activity of the essential ribonuclease RNase J. Here, we elucidated the crystal and cryo-EM structures of RNase J and determined that it assembles into dimers and tetramers in vitro. We found that RNase J extracted from H. pylori is acetylated on multiple lysine residues. Alanine substitution of several of these residues impacts on H. pylori morphology, and thus on RNase J function in vivo. Mutations of Lysine 649 modulates RNase J oligomerization in vitro, which in turn influences ribonuclease activity in vitro. Our structural analyses of RNase J reveal loops that gate access to the active site and rationalizes how acetylation state of K649 can influence activity. We propose acetylation as a regulatory level controlling the activity of RNase J and its potential cooperation with other enzymes of RNA metabolism in H. pylori.