Design of orthogonal and portable RNA devices for post-transcriptional regulation by reverse engineering type I toxin-antitoxin systems.

ABSTRACT: Type I toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems are widely distributed in the prokaryotic world, known for their antitoxin RNA interfering with the cognate toxin mRNA translation. Beyond their canonical role in plasmid maintenance, these systems represent evolutionarily optimized regulatory modules with rapid kinetics and modular architectures. Here, we repurposed them as post-transcriptional regulatory RNA devices via reverse engineering. After isolating the core of type I TA pairs and demonstrating the independence between their structure and repression function, we reconstructed artificial TA pairs termed SRTS-OPRTS. A platform for generating orthogonal SRTS-OPRTS pairs with cross-species application (Bacillus subtilis, Escherichia coli, and Corynebacterium glutamicum) was developed by introducing

SUBMITTER: Yin G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12721322 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature