Toxin-mediated ribosome stalling reprograms the Mycobacterium tuberculosis proteome

MazF endoribonucleases are thought to arrest growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by global translation inhibition. Here, Barth et al. show that MazF-mt9 cleaves a specific tRNA, leading to ribosome stalling at AAA codons and thus selective mRNA degradation and changes in transcriptome and proteome.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Valdir C. Barth, Ju-Mei Zeng, Irina O. Vvedenskaya, Ming Ouyang, Robert N. Husson, Nancy A. Woychik
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10869-8