Unraveling the universe of small RNA regulators in the legume symbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti

• Published in: Symbiosis (Philadelphia, Pa.) Vol. 67; no. 1-3; pp. 43 - 54
• Main Authors: Jiménez-Zurdo, José I., Robledo, Marta
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.11.2015
• Subjects: Bacteria; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Developmental Biology; Ecology; Evolutionary Biology; Life Sciences; Microbiology; Plant Sciences; Sinorhizobium meliloti; Rhizobia; Nitrogen-fixation; Genomics; sRNA; Riboregulation

High-throughput transcriptome profiling (RNAseq) has uncovered large and heterogeneous populations of small noncoding RNA species (sRNAs) with potential regulatory roles in bacteria. These sRNAs act mostly by protein-assisted base-pairing with target mRNAs to fine-tune post-transcriptional reprogram...