Acido-1 RNA motif

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Acido-1 RNA
Acido-1-RNA.svg
Consensus secondary structure of Acido-1 RNAs. This figure is adapted from a previous publication. [1]
Identifiers
SymbolAcido-1
Rfam RF01686
Other data
RNA type Gene; sRNA;
Domain(s) Bacteria;
SO SO:0000655
PDB structures PDBe

The Acido-1 RNA motif is a conserved RNA structure identified by bioinformatics. [1] It is found only in acidobacteriota, and appears to be a non-coding RNA as it does not have a consistent association with protein-coding genes.

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References

  1. 1 2 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.