The Bacillus-plasmid RNA motif is a predicted conserved RNA structure usually located in plasmids.[1] It is known in species under the genera Bacillus and Lactobacillus. In Bacillus subtilis, it is found upstream of the hypothetical gene ydcS, whose function is unknown.
| Bacillus-plasmid RNA | |
|---|---|
 Consensus secondary structure of Bacillus-plasmid RNAs | |
| Identifiers | |
| Symbol | Bacillus-plasmid |
| Rfam | RF01691 |
| Other data | |
| Domain(s) | Bacillus, Lactobacillus |
| PDB structures | PDBe |
The fact that the RNA structure is typically found in plasmids suggests that it might be involved in the regulation plasmid copy number by a cis-antisense mechanism in a manner similar to that of R1162-like plasmid antisense RNA.[2] However, the Bacillus-plasmid RNA motif does not appear to be homologous to any such known RNA.
References
edit- ^ Weinberg Z, Wang JX, Bogue J, et al. (March 2010). "Comparative genomics reveals 104 candidate structured RNAs from bacteria, archaea, and their metagenomes". Genome Biol. 11 (3): R31. doi:10.1186/gb-2010-11-3-r31. PMC 2864571. PMID 20230605.
- ^ Kim K, Meyer RJ (October 1986). "Copy-number of broad host-range plasmid R1162 is regulated by a small RNA". Nucleic Acids Res. 14 (20): 8027–8046. doi:10.1093/nar/14.20.8027. PMC 311832. PMID 2430262.
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