Nucleic Acids Research Advance Access originally published online on July 9, 2007
Nucleic Acids Research 2007 35(14):4809-4819; doi:10.1093/nar/gkm487
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Nucleic Acids Research, 2007, Vol. 35, No. 14 4809-4819
© 2007 The Author(s)
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Identification of 22 candidate structured RNAs in bacteria using the CMfinder comparative genomics pipeline
1Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, 2Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 3Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, Box 208103, New Haven, CT 06520-8103, USA 4Department of Computer Science and Engineering and 5Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Box 352350, Seattle, WA 98195-2350, USA
*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: (203) 432-6554; Fax: (203) 432-6161; Email: zasha.weinberg{at}yale.edu
Correspondence may also be addressed to Ronald R. Breaker. Tel: (203) 432-9389; Fax: (203) 432-6161; Email: ronald.breaker{at}yale.edu
Received April 25, 2007. Revised June 4, 2007. Accepted June 5, 2007.
We applied a computational pipeline based on comparative genomics to bacteria, and identified 22 novel candidate RNA motifs. We predicted six to be riboswitches, which are mRNA elements that regulate gene expression on binding a specific metabolite. In separate studies, we confirmed that two of these are novel riboswitches. Three other riboswitch candidates are upstream of either a putative transporter gene in the order Lactobacillales, citric acid cycle genes in Burkholderiales or molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis genes in several phyla. The remaining riboswitch candidate, the widespread Genes for the Environment, for Membranes and for Motility (GEMM) motif, is associated with genes important for natural competence in Vibrio cholerae and the use of metal ions as electron acceptors in Geobacter sulfurreducens. Among the other motifs, one has a genetic distribution similar to a previously published candidate riboswitch, ykkC/yxkD, but has a different structure. We identified possible non-coding RNAs in five phyla, and several additional cis-regulatory RNAs, including one in 
-proteobacteria (upstream of purD, involved in purine biosynthesis), and one in Cyanobacteria (within an ATP synthase operon). These candidate RNAs add to the growing list of RNA motifs involved in multiple cellular processes, and suggest that many additional RNAs remain to be discovered.
Present address: Jeffrey E. Barrick, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
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