Gut-1 RNA motif

Gut-1 RNA
Consensus secondary structure of Gut-1 RNAs
Identifiers
SymbolGut-1
Alt. Symbolsgt-1
RfamRF01706
Other data
RNA typesRNA
Domain(s)Metagenomic camples
PDB structuresPDBe

The Gut-1 RNA motif (also called gt-1) is a conserved RNA structure identified by bioinformatics.[1][2] These RNAs are present in environmental sequences, and as of 2010 are not known to be present in any species that has been grown under laboratory conditions. Gut-1 RNA is exclusively found in DNA from uncultivated bacteria present in samples from the human gut.

  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.
  2. ^ Weinberg Z, Perreault J, Meyer MM, Breaker RR (December 2009). "Exceptional structured noncoding RNAs revealed by bacterial metagenome analysis". Nature. 462 (7273): 656–659. Bibcode:2009Natur.462..656W. doi:10.1038/nature08586. PMC 4140389. PMID 19956260.