Conserved structured domains in plant non-coding RNA enod40, their evolution and recruitment of sequences from transposable elements.

ABSTRACT: Plant long noncoding RNA enod40 is involved in the regulation of symbiotic associations with bacteria, in particular, in nitrogen-fixing root nodules of legumes, and with fungi in phosphate-acquiring arbuscular mycorrhizae formed by various plants. The presence of enod40 genes in plants that do not form such symbioses indicates its other roles in cell physiology. The molecular mechanisms of enod40 RNA function are poorly understood. Enod40 RNAs form several structured domains, conserved to different extents. Due to relatively low sequence similarity, identification of enod40 sequences in plant genomes is not straightforward, and many enod40 genes remain unannotated even in complete genomes. Here, we used comparative structure analysis and sequence similarity searches in order to locate eno

SUBMITTER: Gultyaev AP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10578108 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature