The human intestinal microbiome is a microbial ecosystem that expresses as many as 100
times more genes than the human host, thereby constituting an important component of the …

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 …

Small RNA regulators (sRNAs) have been identified in a wide range of bacteria and found to
play critical regulatory roles in many processes. The major families of sRNAs include true …

Bacteria possess numerous and diverse means of gene regulation using RNA molecules,
including mRNA leaders that affect expression in cis, small RNAs that bind to proteins or …

Transcriptome-wide studies in eukaryotes have been instrumental in the characterization of
fundamental regulatory mechanisms for more than a decade. By contrast, in prokaryotes …

Antisense RNAs encoded on the DNA strand opposite another gene have the potential to
form extensive base-pairing interactions with the corresponding sense RNA. Unlike other …

The origin story and emergence of molecular biology is muddled. The early triumphs in
bacterial genetics and the complexity of animal and plant genomes complicate an intricate …

Bacteria constitute a large and diverse class of infectious agents, causing devastating
diseases in humans, animals, and plants. Our understanding of gene expression control …

Small RNAs (sRNAs) in bacteria have evolved with diverse mechanisms to balance their
target gene expression in response to changes in the environment. Accumulating studies on …

Listeria monocytogenes is a human, food‐borne pathogen. Genomic comparisons between
L. monocytogenes and Listeria innocua, a closely related non‐pathogenic species, were …