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ArticleNucleic acids research2018

A regulatory RNA is involved in RNA duplex formation and biofilm regulation in Sulfolobus acidocaldarius.

Alvaro Orell, Vanessa Tripp, Victor Aliaga-Tobar, Sonja-Verena Albers, Vinicius Maracaja-Coutinho, Lennart Randau

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

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  20. Archaeal biofilm formation.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Alvaro OrellMax Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Karl-von-Frisch Strasse 10, Marburg 35043, Germany.
Vanessa TrippMax Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Karl-von-Frisch Strasse 10, Marburg 35043, Germany.
Victor Aliaga-Tobar3Programa de Doctorado en Genómica Integrativa, Vicerrectoría de Investigación,Universidad Mayor, Santiago, Chile.
Sonja-Verena AlbersMolecular Biology of Archaea, Institute of Biology II - Microbiology, University Freiburg, Germany.
Vinicius Maracaja-CoutinhoCentro de Genómica y Bioinformática, Facultad de Ciencias, UniversidadMayor, Santiago, Chile.
Lennart RandauMax Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Karl-von-Frisch Strasse 10, Marburg 35043, Germany.
Universidad Mayor · CLMax Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology · DEInstitute of Molecular Biology · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Non-coding RNAs (ncRNA) are involved in essential biological processes in all three domains of life. The regulatory potential of ncRNAs in Archaea is, however, not fully explored. In this study, RNA-seq analyses identified a set of 29 ncRNA transcripts in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius that were differentially expressed in response to biofilm formation. The most abundant ncRNA of this set was found to be resistant to RNase R treatment (RNase R resistant RNA, RrrR(+)) due to duplex formation with a reverse complementary RNA (RrrR(-)). The deletion of the RrrR(+) gene resulted in significantly impaired biofilm formation, while its overproduction increased biofilm yield. RrrR(+) was found to act as an antisense RNA against the mRNA of a hypothetical membrane protein. The RrrR(+) transcript was shown to be stabilized by the presence of the RrrR(-) strand in S. acidocaldarius cell extracts. The accumulation of these RrrR duplexes correlates with an apparent absence of dsRNA degrading RNase III domains in archaeal proteins.

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BiofilmsExoribonucleasesGene DeletionGene Expression ProfilingRNA, Double-StrandedRNA StabilityRNA, UntranslatedSulfolobus acidocaldariusExoribonucleasesribonuclease RRNA, Double-StrandedRNA, Untranslated

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PMCPMC5961385
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