Ocean-VII RNA motif
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| Ocean-VII | |
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 Consensus secondary structure and sequence conservation of Ocean-VII RNA | |
| Identifiers | |
| Symbol | Ocean-VII |
| Rfam | RF03092 |
| Other data | |
| RNA type | Gene; sRNA |
| SO | SO:0001263 |
| PDB structures | PDBe |
The Ocean-VII RNA motif is a conserved RNA structure that was discovered by bioinformatics.[1] Ocean-VII motifs are found in metagenomic sequences isolated from various marine environments, and are not yet (as of 2018) known in any classified organism. This environmental context is similar to other marine RNAs that were found previously by predominantly bioinformatic[2] or experimental[3] methods.
The contigs in which Ocean-VII RNAs are quite small. Consequently, it is ambiguous whether Ocean-VII RNAs function as cis-regulatory elements or whether they operate in trans as small RNAs.
References
[edit]- ^ Weinberg Z, Lünse CE, Corbino KA, Ames TD, Nelson JW, Roth A, Perkins KR, Sherlock ME, Breaker RR (October 2017). "Detection of 224 candidate structured RNAs by comparative analysis of specific subsets of intergenic regions". Nucleic Acids Res. 45 (18): 10811–10823. doi:10.1093/nar/gkx699. PMC 5737381. PMID 28977401.
- ^ Weinberg Z, Perreault J, Meyer MM, Breaker RR (December 2009). "Exceptional structured noncoding RNAs revealed by bacterial metagenome analysis". Nature. 462 (7273): 656–659. Bibcode:2009Natur.462..656W. doi:10.1038/nature08586. PMC 4140389. PMID 19956260.
- ^ Shi Y, Tyson GW, DeLong EF (May 2009). "Metatranscriptomics reveals unique microbial small RNAs in the ocean's water column". Nature. 459 (7244): 266–269. doi:10.1038/nature08055. PMID 19444216. S2CID 4340144.