CaiA RNA motif

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caiA
Consensus secondary structure and sequence conservation of caiA RNA
Identifiers
Symbol	caiA
Rfam	RF02934
Other data
RNA type	Gene; sRNA
SO	SO:0001263
PDB structures	PDBe

The caiA RNA motif is a conserved RNA structure that was discovered by bioinformatics.^[1] caiA motifs are found in Clostridiales.

caiA RNAs are found upstream of genes whose protein products function as acyl CoA dehydrogenases, although in one case the annotated substrate is butyryl-CoA. caiA RNAs might regulate these genes (i.e. function as cis-regulatory elements), but it is also possible that their association with these genes is a coincidence.