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ReviewACS synthetic biology2025

Harnessing Small RNAs as Synthetic Post-transcriptional Regulators in Bacteria.

Jens Georg, Bork A Berghoff, Daniel Schindler

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Review in ACS synthetic biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Jens GeorgInstitut für Biologie III, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Schänzlestraße 1, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.
Bork A BerghoffInstitute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of Prokaryotes, University of Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081 Ulm, Germany.
Daniel SchindlerMax Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Karl-von-Frisch-Straße 10, 35043 Marburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7423-6540

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacteria can respond to environmental changes by expressing small RNAs (sRNAs), which regulate mRNAs by complementary base-pairing. This regulatory mechanism allows bacteria to rapidly adapt their proteome. In recent years, sRNAs have gained attention as blueprints for synthetic regulators allowing control over user-defined targets. Multiple aspects need to be considered for efficient application of these versatile, on-demand, and easy-to-use tools. Advances in computational prediction and bioengineering concepts are the dawn of systematic synthetic sRNA biology. We provide an overview of sRNAs and alternative post-transcriptional regulators, highlight the requirements for successful regulation, and provide guidelines for design, construction, and sRNA application.

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BacteriaRNA, BacterialRNA Processing, Post-TranscriptionalRNA, Small UntranslatedGene Expression Regulation, BacterialRNA, MessengerSynthetic BiologyRNA, BacterialRNA, MessengerRNA, Small Untranslatedbiotechnologypost-transcriptional regulationscaffoldseed regionsmall regulatory RNAsynthetic biology

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PMID40624805
PMCPMC12281614

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