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Abstract
RNA-guided enzymes must quickly search a vast sequence space for their targets. This search is aided by chaperones such as Hfq, a protein that mediates regulation by bacterial small RNAs (sRNAs). How RNA binding proteins enhance this search is little known. Using single-molecule Förster resonance energy transfer, we show that E. coli Hfq performs a one-dimensional scan in which compaction of the target RNA delivers sRNAs to sites distant from the location of Hfq recruitment. We also show that Hfq can transfer an sRNA between different target sites in a single mRNA, favoring the most stable duplex. We propose that compaction and segmental transfer, combined with repeated cycles of base pairing, enable the kinetic selection of optimal sRNA targets. Finally, we show that RNA compaction and sRNA transfer require conserved arginine patches. We suggest that arginine patches are a widespread strategy for enabling the movement of RNA across protein surfaces.
Small RNAs (sRNAs) turn bacterial genes on or off by base pairing with mRNAs. Here the authors employ single molecule fluorescence to show how sRNAs and their chaperone Hfq quickly locate the proper target by repeatedly scanning an mRNA until a stable match is found.
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1 Johns Hopkins University, Thomas C. Jenkins Department of Biophysics, Baltimore, USA (GRID:grid.21107.35) (ISNI:0000 0001 2171 9311); International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, Laboratory of Single-Molecule Biophysics, Warsaw, Poland (GRID:grid.419362.b)
2 Johns Hopkins University, Thomas C. Jenkins Department of Biophysics, Baltimore, USA (GRID:grid.21107.35) (ISNI:0000 0001 2171 9311)