Affiliation:
1. School of Life Sciences and Hubei Key Laboratory of Genetic Regulation and Integrative Biology Central China Normal University Wuhan Hubei PR China
Abstract
AbstractNostoc flagelliforme, a terrestrial cyanobacterium spread throughout arid and semi‐arid areas, has been long known for its outstanding adaptability to extremely dry conditions. This microorganism is able to recover biological activities within hours after months of anhydrobiosis state, attracting investigation through proteomic analysis. Except for canonical proteome, microproteins encoded by small ORFs (smORFs) have recently been regarded as indispensable participants in metabolic processes. However, the involvement of smORFs in N. flagelliforme remains unknown. Here we first constructed a smORF database in N. flagelliforme using bioinformatic prediction, resulting in 6072 novel smORFs. Then LS‐MS/MS analysis was applied to identify expression patterns of microproteins and seek smORFs and their encoded microprotein playing a role during rehydration. In total, 18 novel microproteins were mined based on a smORF searching strategy combined with three proteomic assays, of which five were annotated as ribosomal proteins, one as RNA polymerase subunit, and one as acetohydroxy acid isomeroreductase. We also suggested the possible functions of smORFs according to their expression pattern and discovered two neighboring and homologous smORFs. All these results will expand our knowledge of smORFs‐encoded microproteins and their relation to the stress response of extremophilic microorganisms.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Subject
Molecular Biology,Biochemistry
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