Cyano-2 RNA motif

Cyano-2 RNA motif
Consensus secondary structure of Cyano-2 RNAs
Identifiers
Symbol	Cyano-2
Rfam	RF01702
Other data
RNA type	sRNA
Domain(s)	Synechococcus

The Cyano-2 RNA motif is a conserved RNA structure identified by bioinformatics.^[1] Cyano-2 RNAs are found in Cyanobacterial species classified within the genus Synechococcus. Many terminal loops in the two conserved stem-loops contain the nucleotide sequecne GCGA, and these sequences might in some cases form stable GNRA tetraloops. Since the two stem-loops are somewhat distant from one another it is possible that they represent two independent non-coding RNAs that are often or always co-transcribed. The region one thousand base pairs upstream of predicted Cyano-2 RNAs is usually devoid of annotated features such as RNA or protein-coding genes. This absence of annotated genes within one thousand base pairs is relatively unusual within bacteria.

See also

• Yfr1
• Yfr2
• Cyano-S1 RNA motif

References

1. ^ Weinberg Z, Wang JX, Bogue J, et al. (March 2010). "Comparative genomics reveals 104 candidate structured RNAs from bacteria, archaea and their metagenomes". Genome Biol 11 (3): R31. doi:10.1186/gb-2010-11-3-r31. PMC 2864571. PMID 20230605. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=2864571. 

External links

• Rfam page for Cyano-2 RNA