Nature Communications (May 2022)

Substrate recognition and cryo-EM structure of the ribosome-bound TAC toxin of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

  • Moise Mansour,
  • Emmanuel Giudice,
  • Xibing Xu,
  • Hatice Akarsu,
  • Patricia Bordes,
  • Valérie Guillet,
  • Donna-Joe Bigot,
  • Nawel Slama,
  • Gaetano D’urso,
  • Sophie Chat,
  • Peter Redder,
  • Laurent Falquet,
  • Lionel Mourey,
  • Reynald Gillet,
  • Pierre Genevaux

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30373-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Toxin-antitoxin systems are widespread in bacteria. Here the authors present structures of M. tuberculosis HigBTAC alone and bound to the ribosome in the presence of native cspA mRNA, shedding light on its mechanism of translation inhibition.