A haem-sequestering plant peptide promotes iron uptake in symbiotic bacteria

S Sankari, VMP Babu, K Bian, A Alhhazmi… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Symbiotic partnerships with rhizobial bacteria enable legumes to grow without nitrogen
fertilizer because rhizobia convert atmospheric nitrogen gas into ammonia via nitrogenase …

[HTML][HTML] The roles of assembly factors in mammalian mitoribosome biogenesis

T Hilander, CB Jackson, M Robciuc, T Bashir, H Zhao - Mitochondrion, 2021 - Elsevier
As ancient bacterial endosymbionts of eukaryotic cells, mitochondria have retained their
own circular DNA as well as protein translation system including mitochondrial ribosomes …

“Life is short, and art is long”: RNA degradation in cyanobacteria and model bacteria

JY Zhang, WR Hess, CC Zhang - Mlife, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
RNA turnover plays critical roles in the regulation of gene expression and allows cells to
respond rapidly to environmental changes. In bacteria, the mechanisms of RNA turnover …

[PDF][PDF] YBEY is an essential biogenesis factor for mitochondrial ribosomes

S Summer, A Smirnova, A Gabriele, U Toth… - Nucleic Acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Ribosome biogenesis requires numerous trans-acting factors, some of which are deeply
conserved. In Bacteria, the endoribonuclease YbeY is believed to be involved in 16S rRNA …

Degradation of the Escherichia coli essential proteins DapB and Dxr results in oxidative stress, which contributes to lethality through incomplete base excision repair

CC Gruber, VMP Babu, K Livingston, H Joisher… - Mbio, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Various lethal stresses, including bactericidal antibiotics, can trigger the production of
reactive oxygen species (ROS) that contribute to killing. Incomplete base excision repair …

YbeY is required for ribosome small subunit assembly and tRNA processing in human mitochondria

AR D'Souza, L Van Haute, CA Powell… - Nucleic Acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Mitochondria contain their own translation apparatus which enables them to produce the
polypeptides encoded in their genome. The mitochondrially-encoded RNA components of …

YbeY, éminence grise of ribosome biogenesis

Z Liao, C Schelcher, A Smirnov - Biochemical Society …, 2021 - portlandpress.com
YbeY is an ultraconserved small protein belonging to the unique heritage shared by most
existing bacteria and eukaryotic organelles of bacterial origin, mitochondria and …

Riboregulation in nitrogen-fixing endosymbiotic bacteria

M Robledo, NI García-Tomsig, JI Jiménez-Zurdo - Microorganisms, 2020 - mdpi.com
Small non-coding RNAs (sRNAs) are ubiquitous components of bacterial adaptive
regulatory networks underlying stress responses and chronic intracellular infection of …

Involvement of Escherichia coli YbeX/CorC in ribosomal metabolism

İ Sarıgül, A Žukova, E Alparslan, S Remm… - Molecular …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
YbeX of Escherichia coli, a member of the CorC protein family, is encoded in the same
operon with ribosome‐associated proteins YbeY and YbeZ. Here, we report the involvement …

A Mutant Era GTPase Suppresses Phenotypes Caused by Loss of Highly Conserved YbeY Protein in Escherichia coli

VMP Babu, S Sankari, A Ghosal… - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Ribosome assembly is a complex fundamental cellular process that involves assembling
multiple ribosomal proteins and several ribosomal RNA species in a highly coordinated yet …