Small RNAs in bacteria and archaea: who they are, what they do, and how they do it

EGH Wagner, P Romby - Advances in genetics, 2015 - Elsevier
Small RNAs are ubiquitously present regulators in all kingdoms of life. Most bacterial and
archaeal small RNAs (sRNAs) act by antisense mechanisms on multiple target mRNAs …

Regulation by small RNAs in bacteria: expanding frontiers

G Storz, J Vogel, KM Wassarman - Molecular cell, 2011 - cell.com
Research on the discovery and characterization of small, regulatory RNAs in bacteria has
exploded in recent years. These sRNAs act by base pairing with target mRNAs with which …

Computational analysis of bacterial RNA-Seq data

R McClure, D Balasubramanian, Y Sun… - Nucleic acids …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Recent advances in high-throughput RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) have enabled
tremendous leaps forward in our understanding of bacterial transcriptomes. However …

Target activation by regulatory RNAs in bacteria

K Papenfort, CK Vanderpool - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Bacterial small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) are commonly known to repress gene expression
by base pairing to target mRNAs. In many cases, sRNAs base pair with and sequester …

Messenger RNA degradation in bacterial cells

MP Hui, PL Foley, JG Belasco - Annual review of genetics, 2014 - annualreviews.org
mRNA degradation is an important mechanism for controlling gene expression in bacterial
cells. This process involves the orderly action of a battery of cellular endonucleases and …

sRNA-mediated control in bacteria: An increasing diversity of regulatory mechanisms

MG Jørgensen, JS Pettersen, BH Kallipolitis - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2020 - Elsevier
Small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) act as post-transcriptional regulators controlling bacterial
adaptation to environmental changes. Our current understanding of the mechanisms …

Integration of bacterial small RNAs in regulatory networks

M Nitzan, R Rehani, H Margalit - Annual review of biophysics, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Small RNAs (sRNAs) are central regulators of gene expression in bacteria, controlling target
genes posttranscriptionally by base pairing with their mRNAs. sRNAs are involved in many …

RNA-mediated regulation in pathogenic bacteria

I Caldelari, Y Chao, P Romby… - Cold Spring …, 2013 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Pathogenic bacteria possess intricate regulatory networks that temporally control the
production of virulence factors, and enable the bacteria to survive and proliferate after host …

Toolboxes for cyanobacteria: recent advances and future direction

T Sun, S Li, X Song, J Diao, L Chen, W Zhang - Biotechnology advances, 2018 - Elsevier
Photosynthetic cyanobacteria are important primary producers and model organisms for
studying photosynthesis and elements cycling on earth. Due to the ability to absorb sunlight …

Regulation of mRNA stability during bacterial stress responses

DA Vargas-Blanco, SS Shell - Frontiers in microbiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Bacteria have a remarkable ability to sense environmental changes, swiftly regulating their
transcriptional and posttranscriptional machinery as a response. Under conditions that …