potC RNA motif
The potC RNA motif is a conserved RNA structure discovered using bioinformatics.[1] The RNA is detected only in genome sequences derived from DNA that was extracted from uncultivated marine bacteria. Thus, this RNA is present in environmental samples, but not yet found in any cultivated organism. potC RNAs are located in the presumed 5' untranslated regions of genes predicted to encode either membrane transport proteins or peroxiredoxins. Therefore, it was hypothesized that potC RNAs are cis-regulatory elements, but their detailed function is unknown.
| potC RNA motif | |
|---|---|
 Consensus secondary structure of potC RNAs | |
| Identifiers | |
| Symbol | potC RNA |
| Rfam | RF01751 |
| Other data | |
| RNA type | Cis-regulatory element |
| PDB structures | PDBe |
A number of other RNAs were identified in the same study, including:
References
- Weinberg Z, Wang JX, Bogue J, et al. (March 2010). "Comparative genomics reveals 104 candidate structured RNAs from bacteria, archaea and their metagenomes". Genome Biol. 11 (3): R31. doi:10.1186/gb-2010-11-3-r31. PMC 2864571. PMID 20230605.
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