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ArticleScientific reports2017

Identification of small RNAs abundant in Burkholderia cenocepacia biofilms reveal putative regulators with a potential role in carbon and iron metabolism.

Andrea Sass, Sanne Kiekens, Tom Coenye

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Andrea SassDepartment of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0001-9396-7648
Sanne KiekensDepartment of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Tom CoenyeDepartment of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. Tom.Coenye@UGent.be.ORCID 0000-0002-6407-0601
Ghent University · BE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Small RNAs play a regulatory role in many central metabolic processes of bacteria, as well as in developmental processes such as biofilm formation. Small RNAs of Burkholderia cenocepacia, an opportunistic pathogenic beta-proteobacterium, are to date not well characterised. To address that, we performed genome-wide transcriptome structure analysis of biofilm grown B. cenocepacia J2315. 41 unannotated short transcripts were identified in intergenic regions of the B. cenocepacia genome. 15 of these short transcripts, highly abundant in biofilms, widely conserved in Burkholderia sp. and without known function, were selected for in-depth analysis. Expression profiling showed that most of these sRNAs are more abundant in biofilms than in planktonic cultures. Many are also highly abundant in cells grown in minimal media, suggesting they are involved in adaptation to nutrient limitation and growth arrest. Their computationally predicted targets include a high proportion of genes involved in carbon metabolism. Expression and target genes of one sRNA suggest a potential role in regulating iron homoeostasis. The strategy used for this study to detect sRNAs expressed in B. cenocepacia biofilms has successfully identified sRNAs with a regulatory function.

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BiofilmsBurkholderia cenocepaciaCarbonGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression Regulation, BacterialIronOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisRNA, BacterialCarbonIronRNA, Bacterial

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PMID29142288
PMCPMC5688073
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