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Toxin-mediated ribosome stalling as a complementary tool to annotate bacterial ORFs

ABSTRACT: The goal of this project is to identify newly synthesized proteins upon expression of VapC4 (Rv0595c) in M. tuberculosis mc2 6202 or ∆vapBC4 strains.

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ORGANISM(S): Bacteria Mycobacterium Tuberculosis H37rv

DISEASE(S): Tuberculosis

SUBMITTER: Eduardo Troian

LAB HEAD: Nancy A Woychik

PROVIDER: PXD071729 | Pride | 2026-04-27

REPOSITORIES: Pride

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Harnessing toxin-mediated ribosome stalling as a complementary tool to annotate bacterial ORFs.

Troian Eduardo A EA Barth Valdir C VC Chauhan Unnati U Zheng Haiyan H Zhao Caifeng C Zeng Jumei J Husson Robert N RN Woychik Nancy A NA

Nucleic acids research 20260401 7

The Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) VapC4 endoribonuclease toxin exclusively cleaves and inactivates tRNACys, which leads to extensive ribosome stalling at Cys codons. Serendipitously, the precise position of stalled ribosomes is revealed within our 5' RNA-seq datasets used to identify and validate the tRNA target of the toxin, precluding the need for Ribo-seq. Here we show how mapping of stalled ribosomes can be harnessed as an innovative tool for reliable detection of new Cys-containing Mtb o ...[more]

PMID: 42011780

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