Experimental RNomics in Aquifex aeolicus: identification of small non-coding RNAs and the putative 6S RNA homolog.

ABSTRACT: By an experimental RNomics approach, we have generated a cDNA library from small RNAs expressed from the genome of the hyperthermophilic bacterium Aquifex aeolicus. The library included RNAs that were antisense to mRNAs and tRNAs as well as RNAs encoded in intergenic regions. Substantial steady-state levels in A.aeolicus cells were confirmed for several of the cloned RNAs by northern blot analysis. The most abundant intergenic RNA of the library was identified as the 6S RNA homolog of A.aeolicus. Although shorter in size (150 nt) than its gamma-proteobacterial homologs (approximately 185 nt), it is predicted to have the most stable structure among known 6S RNAs. As in the gamma-proteobacteria, the A.aeolicus 6S RNA gene (ssrS) is located immediately upstream of the ygfA gene encoding a wid

SUBMITTER: Willkomm DK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1074721 | biostudies-literature | 2005

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature