Small RNAs in bacteria and archaea: who they are, what they do, and how they do it

EGH Wagner, P Romby - Advances in genetics, 2015 - Elsevier
Small RNAs are ubiquitously present regulators in all kingdoms of life. Most bacterial and
archaeal small RNAs (sRNAs) act by antisense mechanisms on multiple target mRNAs …

Bacterial small RNA regulators: versatile roles and rapidly evolving variations

S Gottesman, G Storz - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives …, 2011 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Small RNA regulators (sRNAs) have been identified in a wide range of bacteria and found to
play critical regulatory roles in many processes. The major families of sRNAs include true …

sRNA-mediated control in bacteria: An increasing diversity of regulatory mechanisms

MG Jørgensen, JS Pettersen, BH Kallipolitis - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2020 - Elsevier
Small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) act as post-transcriptional regulators controlling bacterial
adaptation to environmental changes. Our current understanding of the mechanisms …

Coding sequence targeting by MicC RNA reveals bacterial mRNA silencing downstream of translational initiation

V Pfeiffer, K Papenfort, S Lucchini… - Nature structural & …, 2009 - nature.com
Bacterial small noncoding RNAs (sRNAs) generally recognize target mRNAs in the 5′
region to prevent 30S ribosomes from initiating translation. It was thought that the mRNA …

Coupled transcription-translation in prokaryotes: an old couple with new surprises

M Irastortza-Olaziregi, O Amster-Choder - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Coupled transcription-translation (CTT) is a hallmark of prokaryotic gene expression. CTT
occurs when ribosomes associate with and initiate translation of mRNAs whose transcription …

Carbon catabolite control of the metabolic network in Bacillus subtilis

Y Fujita - Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry, 2009 - jstage.jst.go.jp
The histidine-containing protein (HPr) is the energy coupling protein of the
phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent carbohydrate: phosphotransferase system (PTS), which …

Small RNA binding to 5′ mRNA coding region inhibits translational initiation

M Bouvier, CM Sharma, F Mika, KH Nierhaus, J Vogel - Molecular cell, 2008 - cell.com
Small noncoding RNAs (sRNAs) have predominantly been shown to repress bacterial
mRNAs by masking the Shine-Dalgarno (SD) or AUG start codon sequence, thereby …

RNAcode: robust discrimination of coding and noncoding regions in comparative sequence data

S Washietl, S Findeiß, SA Müller, S Kalkhof… - Rna, 2011 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
With the availability of genome-wide transcription data and massive comparative
sequencing, the discrimination of coding from noncoding RNAs and the assessment of …

A Strand-Specific RNA–Seq Analysis of the Transcriptome of the Typhoid Bacillus Salmonella Typhi

TT Perkins, RA Kingsley, MC Fookes, PP Gardner… - PLoS …, 2009 - journals.plos.org
High-density, strand-specific cDNA sequencing (ssRNA–seq) was used to analyze the
transcriptome of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi (S. Typhi). By mapping sequence data to …

Hfq-binding small RNA PqsS regulates Pseudomonasaeruginosa pqs quorum sensing system and virulence

T Jia, X Bi, M Li, C Zhang, A Ren, S Li, T Zhou… - npj Biofilms and …, 2024 - nature.com
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a widespread nosocomial pathogen with a significant to cause
both severe planktonic acute and biofilm-related chronic infections. Small RNAs (sRNAs) …