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Coding sequence targeting by MicC RNA reveals bacterial mRNA silencing downstream of translational initiation.
Nature structural & molecular biology - 1 Aug 2009
Pfeiffer Verena, Papenfort Kai, Lucchini Sacha, Hinton Jay C D, Vogel Jörg
Abstract excerpt
Bacterial small noncoding RNAs (sRNAs) generally recognize target mRNAs in the 5' region to prevent 30S ribosomes from initiating translation. It was thought that the mRNA coding sequence (CDS) was refractory to sRNA-mediated repression, because elongating 70S ribosomes have an efficient RNA helicase activity that prevents stable target pairing. We report that the Hfq-associated MicC sRNA silences Salmonella...
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