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We investigated the catalytic efficiency and the specificity of the Bacillus subtilis RNase P holoenzyme reaction with substrates that contain a single strand, a hairpin loop, or a tRNA 3' to the cleavage site. At a saturating ribozyme concentration, RNase P can cleave a single-stranded RNA at approximately 0.6 min(-1) at pH 7.8. Replacing the single-stranded RNA 3' to the cleavage site by a hairpin loop or by the yeast tRNA(Phe) increases the cleavage rate by up to approximately 600-fold and approximately 3,200-fold, respectively. These results show that compared to a single-stranded RNA substrate, the cleavage rate for the holoenzyme reaction is primarily enhanced by an acceptor-stem-like helix. Substrate binding, approximately 7-10 microM for a single-stranded RNA, improves by approximately 1,000-fold upon the addition of the tRNA. The efficiency of the RNase P holoenzyme cleaving a single-stranded RNA is sufficiently high to consider autolytic processing of the RNase P RNA (denoted P RNA) transcript in the cell. The addition of the RNase P protein to a precursor form of the P RNA in vitro results in autolytic processing of the 5' and the 3' end of this precursor in a matter of minutes. Autolytic processing produces the reported 5' end of the mature P RNA. The precise 3' end generated by autolytic processing is different over the course of the reaction and the final product is 4 nt shorter than the reported 3' end of the B. subtilis P RNA. The observed 3' end in vitro is consistent with the property of the holoenzyme reaction with single-stranded RNA substrates. The discrepancy with the reported 3' end may be due to other processing events in vivo or inaccurate determination of the mature 3' end of the P RNA isolated from the cell. We propose that the mature B. subtilis P RNA is generated at least in part by autolytic processing upon the binding of the RNase P protein to the precursor P RNA.

The 3′ substrate determinants for the catalytic efficiency of the Bacillus subtilis RNase P holoenzyme suggest autolytic processing of the RNase P RNA in vivo