Biology:Plasmid RNAIII

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Plasmid RNAIII
RF00235.jpg
Predicted secondary structure and sequence conservation of Plasmid_RNAIII
Identifiers
SymbolPlasmid_RNAIII
RfamRF00235
Other data
RNA typeGene
Domain(s)Bacteria
SO0000233
PDB structuresPDBe

Plasmid RNAIII is a non-coding RNA found in bacterial plasmids including pIP501. RNAIII acts by transcriptional attenuation of the essential repR-mRNA. RNAIII is composed of four stem-loops with loops L3 and L4 that interact with the RNA target.[1]

References

  1. "Antisense-RNA mediated transcriptional attenuation: importance of a U-turn loop structure in the target RNA of plasmid pIP501 for efficient inhibition by the antisense RNA". Journal of Molecular Biology 333 (5): 917–929. November 2003. doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2003.09.020. PMID 14583190. 

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