Rny

• Description: RNase Y, 5' end sensitive endoribonuclease, involved in the degradation/processing of mRNA
  
  

Gene name	rny
Synonyms	ymdA
Essential	yes
Product	RNase Y
Function	RNA processing and degradation
Interactions involving this protein in SubtInteract: Rny
Regulatory function of this protein in SubtiPathways: Central C-metabolism
MW, pI	58,7 kDa, 5.39
Gene length, protein length	1560 bp, 520 amino acids
Immediate neighbours	pbpX, ymdB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

Rnases, biofilm formation, essential genes, membrane proteins

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU16960

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:
  • RNase Y cleaves S-box riboswitch RNAs in vivo and in vitro PubMed
  • preference for 5' monophosphorylated substrate in vitro PubMed
  • endonucleolytic cleavage PubMed
  • required for the processing of the gapA operon mRNA PubMed
  • cleavage activity appears sensitive to downstream secondary structure PubMed
  • RNase Y initiates the degradation of rpsO mRNA PubMed

• Protein family: Member of the HD superfamily of metal-dependent phosphohydrolases; 2',3' cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:
  • transmembrane domain (aa 5–24) PubMed
  • coiled-coiled domain (may form a leucine zipper) (aa 30-150) PubMed
  • KH domain (aa 210–280) PubMed
  • HD domain (aa 330–430) PubMed
  • C-terminal domain (aa 430-520) PubMed

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s): requires Mg+2, which can be replaced by Zn+2 or Mn+2 ions, PubMed

• Effectors of protein activity: appears sensitive to downstream secondary structure, PubMed

• Interactions:
  • RNase Y forms dimers PubMed
  • part of the RNA degradosome
  • Rny-PfkA PubMed, Rny-Eno PubMed, Rny-PnpA PubMed, Rny-RnjA PubMed, Rny-CshA PubMed

• Localization:
  • cell membrane, single-pass membrane protein PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O31774

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number: 3.1.4.16

Additional information

required for the processing of the gapA operon mRNA

Expression and regulation

• Operon:
  • rny-ymdB PubMed
  • rny PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation: constitutive

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:
  • there is a terminator between rny and ymdB, most transcripts terminate there PubMed
  • The mRNA has a long 5' leader region. This may indicate RNA-based regulation PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant: essential!!!!, 4043 (rny under p-spac control, cat), GP193 (rny under p-xyl control, cat), both available in Stülke lab; SSB447 (rny under P-spac control, "erm") available in Putzer lab.

• Expression vector:
  • N-terminal Strep-tag, expression in E. coli, in pGP172: pGP441, available in Stülke lab
  • N-terminal Strep-tag, for SPINE, expression in B. subtilis, in pGP380: pGP775 , available in Stülke lab
  • Expression of RNase Y missing the N-terminal transmembrane domain (25aa) as an intein fusion in E. coli (no tag left in the purified protein) available in the Putzer lab
  • wild type rny, expression in B. subtilis, in pBQ200: pGP1201, available in Stülke lab
  • there is also a series of domain constructs present in pBQ200, all available in Stülke lab
  • chromosomal expression of Rny-Strep, spc: GP1033, available in Jörg Stülke's lab

• lacZ fusion: pGP459 (in pAC7), available in Stülke lab

• GFP fusion: B. subtilis 3569 (amyE:: (p-xyl rny-gfpmut1-spc)), available in Errington lab, pGP1368 for chromosomal expression of rny-YFP, available in Stülke lab

• two-hybrid system: B. pertussis adenylate cyclase-based bacterial two hybrid system (BACTH), available in Stülke lab

• FLAG-tag construct: GP1030 (spc, based on pGP1331), available in the Stülke lab

• Antibody: available in van Dijl and Stülke labs

Labs working on this gene/protein

Harald Putzer, IBPC Paris, France Homepage

Jörg Stülke, University of Göttingen, Germany Homepage

References

Publications on B. subtilis rny

Diethmaier C, Pietack N, Gunka K, Wrede C, Lehnik-Habrink M, Herzberg C, Hübner S, Stülke J

A Novel Factor Controlling Bistability in Bacillus subtilis: The YmdB Protein Affects
Flagellin Expression and Biofilm Formation. 
J Bacteriol. 2011 Aug 19. [Epub ahead of print]
PubMed:21856853

Lehnik-Habrink M, Schaffer M, Mäder U, Diethmaier C, Herzberg C, Stülke J  
RNA processing in Bacillus subtilis: identification of targets of the essential RNase Y. 
Mol Microbiol. 2011 Aug 4. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07777.x. [Epub ahead of print] 
PubMed:21815947