A novel regulation on the developmental checkpoint protein Sda that controls sporulation and biofilm formation in Bacillus subtilis

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第一作者： He, Yinghao

作者： He, Yinghao;Greenwich, Jennifer;Balaban, Samantha;Darcera, Migue Van Louis;Chai, Yunrong;Qin, Yuxuan;Gozzi, Kevin

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关键词： Bacillus subtilis; Sda; biofilm; sporulation; serine codon; synonymous codon

期刊名称：JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY （ 影响因子：3.0； 五年影响因子：3.2 ）

ISSN： 0021-9193

年卷期： 2025 年 207 卷 3 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Biofilm formation by Bacillus subtilis is triggered by an unusually simple environmental sensing mechanism. Certain serine codons, the four TCN codons (N for A, T, C, or G), in the gene for the biofilm repressor SinR caused lowered SinR translation and subsequent biofilm induction during transition from exponential to stationary growth. Global ribosome profiling showed that ribosomes pause when translating the four UCN (U for T on the mRNA) serine codons on mRNA, but not the two AGC/AGU serine codons. We proposed a serine codon hierarchy (AGC/AGT vs TCN) in that genes enriched in the TCN serine codons may experience reduced translation efficiency when serine is limited. In this study, we designed an algorithm to score all protein-coding genes in B. subtilis NCIB3610 based on the serine codon hierarchy. We generated a short list of 50 genes that could be subject to regulation by this novel mechanism. We further investigated one such gene from the list, sda, which encodes a developmental checkpoint protein regulating both sporulation and biofilm formation. We showed that synonymously switching the TCN serine codons to AGC in sda led to delayed biofilm formation and sporulation. This engineered strain also outgrew strains with other synonymously substituted sda alleles (TCN) in competition assays for biofilm formation and sporulation. Finally, we showed that the AGC serine codon substitutions in sda elevated the Sda protein levels. This serine codon hierarchy-based novel signaling mechanism could be exploited by bacteria in adapting to stationary phase and regulating important biological processes.

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