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ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology2011

Bacterial small RNA regulators: versatile roles and rapidly evolving variations.

Susan Gottesman, Gisela Storz

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Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 439 papers.

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439citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

439 citing papers in PubMed, 744 citations in OpenAlex.

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  17. Deletion of sRNA0024 Reduces Virulence ofAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025
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  18. Origin and adaptive evolutionary trajectory of the 3' UTR-derived sRNA UhpU in Enterobacteriaceae.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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379 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Susan GottesmanLaboratory of Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA. susang@helix.nih.gov
Gisela Storz
National Cancer Institute · USNational Institutes of Health · US

Funding

Bacterial Functions Involved in Cell Growth ControlZIABC008714 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI GOTTESMAN, SUSAN · 2009 to 2025
$20.3M
Intramural NIH HHS
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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 antisense RNAs, synthesized from the strand complementary to the mRNA they regulate, sRNAs that also act by pairing but have limited complementarity with their targets, and sRNAs that regulate proteins by binding to and affecting protein activity. The sRNAs with limited complementarity are akin to eukaryotic microRNAs in their ability to modulate the activity and stability of multiple mRNAs. In many bacterial species, the RNA chaperone Hfq is required to promote pairing between these sRNAs and their target mRNAs. Understanding the evolution of regulatory sRNAs remains a challenge; sRNA genes show evidence of duplication and horizontal transfer but also could be evolved from tRNAs, mRNAs or random transcription.

Indexed as

BacteriaBase PairingEvolution, MolecularRNA, BacterialRNA, Small UntranslatedRNA, BacterialRNA, Small Untranslated

Identifiers

PMID20980440
PMCPMC3225950
OpenAlexW2132304324

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