Biology:Mahella-1 RNA motif
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| Mahella-1 | |
|---|---|
 Consensus secondary structure and sequence conservation of Mahella-1 RNA | |
| Identifiers | |
| Symbol | Mahella-1 |
| Rfam | RF03007 |
| Other data | |
| RNA type | Gene; sRNA |
| SO | 0001263 |
| PDB structures | PDBe |
The Mahella-1 RNA motif is a conserved RNA structure that was discovered by bioinformatics.[1] Seven Mahella-1 motif RNAs are found in Mahella australiensis, and no other organism has been (as of 2018) observed to contain Mahella-1 RNAs.
All seven Mahella-1 RNAs are located upstream of protein-coding genes, which could suggest that the RNAs function as cis-regulatory elements. However, it is unusual that 6 non-homologous genes are found downstream of Mahella-1 RNAs, and that these genes do not seem related to each other. cis-regulatory RNAs are generally located upstream of characteristic gene classes. Thus, Mahella-1 RNAs might correspond to small RNAs, or have some other function.
References
- ↑ "Detection of 224 candidate structured RNAs by comparative analysis of specific subsets of intergenic regions". Nucleic Acids Research 45 (18): 10811–10823. October 2017. doi:10.1093/nar/gkx699. PMID 28977401.
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