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ArticleJournal of bacteriology2011

Accessibility and evolutionary conservation mark bacterial small-rna target-binding regions.

Asaf Peer, Hanah Margalit

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Article in Journal of bacteriology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers.

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48 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Asaf PeerDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.
Hanah Margalit

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacterial small noncoding RNAs have attracted much interest in recent years as posttranscriptional regulators of genes involved in diverse pathways. Small RNAs (sRNAs) are 50 to 400 nucleotides long and exert their regulatory function by directly base pairing with mRNA targets to alter their stability and/or affect their translation. This base pairing is achieved through a region of about 10 to 25 nucleotides, which may be located at various positions along different sRNAs. By compiling a data set of experimentally determined target-binding regions of sRNAs and systematically analyzing their properties, we reveal that they are both more evolutionarily conserved and more accessible than random regions. We demonstrate the use of these properties for computational identification of sRNA target-binding regions with high specificity and sensitivity. Our results show that these predicted regions are likely to base pair with known targets of an sRNA, suggesting that pointing out these regions in a specific sRNA can help in searching for its targets.

Indexed as

Conserved SequenceEvolution, MolecularBase SequenceEscherichia coliEscherichia coli ProteinsGene Expression Regulation, BacterialProtein BindingRNA, BacterialRNA, MessengerRNA, Small InterferingEscherichia coli ProteinsRNA, BacterialRNA, MessengerRNA, Small Interfering

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PMID21278294
PMCPMC3067639

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