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Era, a GTPase-like protein of the Ras family, does not control ribosome assembly in Free

Abstract

Era GTPase is universally present in microbes including (Mtb) complex bacteria. While Era is known to regulate ribosomal assembly in and predicted to be essential for growth, its function in mycobacteria remains obscured. Herein, we show that Era ortholog in the attenuated Mtb H37Ra strain, MRA_2388 (annotated as Era) is a cell envelope localized protein harbouring critical GTP-binding domains, which interacts with several envelope proteins of Mtb. The purified Era from (annotated as Era) exhibiting ~90 % sequence similarity with Era, exists in monomeric conformation. While it is co-purified with RNA upon overexpression in , the presence of RNA does not modulate the GTPase activity of the Era as against its counterpart from other organisms. CRISPRi silencing of does not show any substantial effect on the growth of Mtb H37Ra, which suggests a redundant function of Era in mycobacteria. Notably, no effect on ribosome assembly, protein synthesis or bacterial susceptibility to protein synthesis inhibitors was observed upon depletion of Era in Mtb H37Ra, further indicating a divergent role of Era GTPase in mycobacteria.

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Keyword(s): Era , GTPase , Mycobacterium tuberculosis and ribosome assembly
Funding
This study was supported by the:
  • Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India (Award BT/PR25690/GET/119/142/2017)
    • Principle Award Recipient: NisheethAgarwal
  • Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, India (Award 19/06/2016 (i) EU-V)
    • Principle Award Recipient: Pramilapal
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Era, a GTPase-like protein of the Ras family, does not control ribosome assembly in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Microbiology 168, 001200 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.001200
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