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Abstract

Small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) are the most prominent post-transcriptional regulators in all kingdoms of life. A few of them, e.g. SR1 from , are dual-function sRNAs. SR1 acts as a base-pairing sRNA in arginine catabolism and as an mRNA encoding the small peptide SR1P in RNA degradation. Both functions of SR1 are highly conserved among 23 species of . Here, we investigate the interaction between SR1P and GapA by a combination of and methods. prediction of the structure of SR1P yielded five models, one of which was consistent with experimental circular dichroism spectroscopy data of a purified, synthetic peptide. Based on this model structure and a comparison between the 23 SR1P homologues, a series of SR1P mutants was constructed and analysed by Northern blotting and co-elution experiments. The known crystal structure of GapA was used to model SR1P onto this structure. The hypothetical SR1P binding pocket, composed of two α-helices at both termini of GapA, was investigated by constructing and assaying a number of GapA mutants in the presence and absence of wild-type or mutated SR1P. Almost all residues of SR1P located in the two highly conserved motifs are implicated in the interaction with GapA. A critical lysine residue (K332) in the C-terminal α-helix 14 of GapA corroborated the predicted binding pocket.

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