Biology:Actino-ugpB RNA motif

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Actino-ugpB
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Consensus secondary structure and sequence conservation of Actino-ugpB RNA
Identifiers
SymbolActino-ugpB
RfamRF02927
Other data
RNA typeGene; sRNA
SO0001263
PDB structuresPDBe


The Actino-ugpB RNA motif is a conserved RNA structure that was discovered by bioinformatics.[1] Actino-ugpB motifs are found in strains of the species Gardnerella vaginalis, within the phylum Actinomycetota.

It is ambiguous whether Actino-ugpB RNAs function as cis-regulatory elements or whether they operate in trans. Many of the RNAs are upstream of the gene 'ugpB', which encodes a protein putatively involved in sugar transport. However, several of the RNAs are not located upstream of a protein-coding gene. Structurally, the motif consists of two hairpins with conserved nucleotides located in the stems and outside of the hairpins, but not in their terminal loops.

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