The bacterial translation stress response

AL Starosta, J Lassak, K Jung… - FEMS microbiology …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Throughout their life, bacteria need to sense and respond to environmental stress. Thus,
such stress responses can require dramatic cellular reprogramming, both at the …

[HTML][HTML] Coping with stress: how bacteria fine-tune protein synthesis and protein transport

R Njenga, J Boele, Y Öztürk, HG Koch - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Maintaining a functional proteome under different environmental conditions is challenging
for every organism, in particular for unicellular organisms, such as bacteria. In order to cope …

Ribosome hibernation

T Prossliner, K Skovbo Winther… - Annual review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Protein synthesis consumes a large fraction of available resources in the cell. When bacteria
encounter unfavorable conditions and cease to grow, specialized mechanisms are in place …

The stringent response regulates adaptation to darkness in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus

RD Hood, SA Higgins, A Flamholz… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
The cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus relies upon photosynthesis to drive
metabolism and growth. During darkness, Synechococcus stops growing, derives energy …

Ribosome hibernation facilitates tolerance of stationary-phase bacteria to aminoglycosides

SL McKay, DA Portnoy - Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
Upon entry into stationary phase, bacteria dimerize 70S ribosomes into translationally
inactive 100S particles by a process called ribosome hibernation. Previously, we reported …

Hibernation factors directly block ribonucleases from entering the ribosome in response to starvation

T Prossliner, K Gerdes, MA Sørensen… - Nucleic Acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Ribosome hibernation is a universal translation stress response found in bacteria as well as
plant plastids. The term was coined almost two decades ago and despite recent insights …

[HTML][HTML] The cryo-EM structure of hibernating 100S ribosome dimer from pathogenic Staphylococcus aureus

D Matzov, S Aibara, A Basu, E Zimmerman… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Formation of 100S ribosome dimer is generally associated with translation suppression in
bacteria. Trans-acting factors ribosome modulation factor (RMF) and hibernating promoting …

Survival of the drowsiest: the hibernating 100S ribosome in bacterial stress management

DW Gohara, MNF Yap - Current genetics, 2018 - Springer
In response to nutrient deprivation and environmental insults, bacteria conjoin two copies of
non-translating 70S ribosomes that form the translationally inactive 100S dimer. This …

Structure of the Bacillus subtilis hibernating 100S ribosome reveals the basis for 70S dimerization

B Beckert, M Abdelshahid, H Schäfer… - The EMBO …, 2017 - embopress.org
Under stress conditions, such as nutrient deprivation, bacteria enter into a hibernation stage,
which is characterized by the appearance of 100S ribosomal particles. In Escherichia coli …

Disassembly of the Staphylococcus aureus hibernating 100S ribosome by an evolutionarily conserved GTPase

A Basu, MNF Yap - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
The bacterial hibernating 100S ribosome is a poorly understood form of the dimeric 70S
particle that has been linked to pathogenesis, translational repression, starvation responses …