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Prokaryotic coding regions have little if any specific depletion of Shine-Dalgarno motifs

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Title
Prokaryotic coding regions have little if any specific depletion of Shine-Dalgarno motifs
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PLOS ONE, August 2018
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0202768
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Alisa Yurovsky, Mohammad Ruhul Amin, Justin Gardin, Yuping Chen, Steve Skiena, Bruce Futcher

Abstract

The Shine-Dalgarno motif occurs in front of prokaryotic start codons, and is complementary to the 3' end of the 16S ribosomal RNA. Hybridization between the Shine-Dalgarno sequence and the anti-Shine-Dalgarno region of the16S rRNA (CCUCCU) directs the ribosome to the start AUG of the mRNA for translation. Shine-Dalgarno-like motifs (AGGAGG in E. coli) are depleted from open reading frames of most prokaryotes. This may be because hybridization of the 16S rRNA at Shine-Dalgarnos inside genes would slow translation or induce internal initiation. However, we analyzed 128 species from diverse phyla where the 16S rRNA gene(s) lack the anti-Shine-Dalgarno sequence, and so the 16S rRNA is incapable of interacting with Shine-Dalgarno-like sequences. Despite this lack of an anti-Shine-Dalgarno, half of these species still displayed depletion of Shine-Dalgarno-like sequences when analyzed by previous methods. Depletion of the same G-rich sequences was seen by these methods even in eukaryotes, which do not use the Shine-Dalgarno mechanism. We suggest previous methods are partly detecting a non-specific depletion of G-rich sequences. Alternative informatics approaches show that most prokaryotes have only slight, if any, specific depletion of Shine-Dalgarno-like sequences from open reading frames. Together with recent evidence that ribosomes do not pause at ORF-internal Shine-Dalgarno motifs, these results suggest the presence of ORF-internal Shine-Dalgarno-like motifs may be inconsequential, perhaps because internal regions of prokaryotic mRNAs may be structurally "shielded" from translation initiation.

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Unknown 44 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 15 34%
Student > Bachelor 5 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 11%
Researcher 4 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 5%
Other 2 5%
Unknown 11 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 17 39%
Immunology and Microbiology 5 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 7%
Chemical Engineering 2 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 2%
Other 6 14%
Unknown 10 23%
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