CspA, the major cold-shock protein of Escherichia coli, is an RNA chaperone.

The Journal of Biological Chemistry
W JiangM Inouye

Abstract

CspA, the major cold-shock protein of Escherichia coli, is dramatically induced during the cold-shock response. The amino acid sequence of CspA shows 43% identity to the "cold-shock domain" of the eukaryotic Y-box protein family, which interacts with RNA and DNA to regulate their functions. Here, we demonstrate that CspA binds to RNA as a chaperone. First, CspA cooperatively binds to heat-denatured single-stranded RNA if it is larger than 74 bases, causing a supershift in gel electrophoresis. A minimal concentration of CspA at 2.7 x 10(-5) M is absolutely required for this cooperative binding, which is sufficiently lower than the estimated cellular concentration of CspA (10(-4) M) in cold-shocked cells. No specific RNA sequences for CspA binding were identified, indicating that it has a broad sequence specificity for its binding. When the 142-base 5'-untranslated region of the cspA mRNA was used as a substrate for ribonucleases A and T1, the addition of CspA significantly stimulated RNA hydrolysis by preventing the formation of RNase-resistant bands due to stable secondary structures in the 5'-untranslated region. These results indicate that binding of CspA to RNA destabilizes RNA secondary structures to make them susceptible t...Continue Reading

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