Identification of RNAIII-binding proteins in Staphylococcus aureus using tethered RNAs and streptavidin aptamers based pull-down assay

BMC Microbiology

Baolin Sun¹  Ting Xue³  Jianye Zang²  Changlong Zhao²  Tian Tian²  Qing Zhu²  Xu Zhang² 

[1] CAS Key Laboratory of Innate Immunity and Chronic Disease, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, Anhui, China;School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, Anhui, China;School of Life Sciences, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, Anhui 230036, China

关键词: RNA-binding proteins;    Pull-down assay;    tRSA;    RNAIII;    Staphylococcus aureus;   

Others  :  1212041
DOI  :  10.1186/s12866-015-0435-3

 received in 2015-03-05, accepted in 2015-05-05,  发布年份 2015

【 摘 要 】

Background

It has been widely recognized that small RNAs (sRNAs) play important roles in physiology and virulence control in bacteria. In Staphylococcus aureus, many sRNAs have been identified and some of them have been functionally studied. Since it is difficult to identify RNA-binding proteins (RBPs), very little has been known about the RBPs in S. aureus, especially those associated with sRNAs.

Results

Here we adopted a tRNA scaffold streptavidin aptamer based pull-down assay to identify RBPs in S. aureus. The tethered RNA was successfully captured by the streptavidin magnetic beads, and proteins binding to RNAIII were isolated and analyzed by mass spectrometry. We have identified 81 proteins, and expressed heterologously 9 of them in Escherichia coli. The binding ability of the recombinant proteins with RNAIII was further analyzed by electrophoresis mobility shift assay, and the result indicates that proteins CshA, RNase J2, Era, Hu, WalR, Pyk, and FtsZ can bind to RNAIII.

Conclusions

This study suggests that some proteins can bind to RNA III in S. aureus, and may be involved in RNA III function. And tRSA based pull-down assay is an effective method to search for RBPs in bacteria, which should facilitate the identification and functional study of RBPs in diverse bacterial species.

【 授权许可】

   
2015 Zhang et al.; licensee BioMed Central.

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