In molecular biology, the Aar small RNA is a
small RNA
Small RNA (sRNA) are polymeric RNA molecules that are less than 200 nucleotides in length, and are usually non-coding
Non-coding DNA (ncDNA) sequences are components of an organism's DNA that do not encode protein sequences. Some non-coding DNA ...
(sRNA) produced by species of ''
Acinetobacter''. It was first discovered in ''Acinetobacter baylyi'', and is located between the trpS and sucD genes. TrpS encodes
tryptophanyl-tRNA-synthetase II and sucD encodes
succinyl-coA-synthetase subunit alpha. Aar
upregulates several
mRNA
In molecular biology, messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) is a single-stranded molecule of RNA that corresponds to the genetic sequence of a gene, and is read by a ribosome in the process of Protein biosynthesis, synthesizing a protein.
mRNA is ...
s encoding proteins involved in
amino acid metabolism.
See also
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Bacterial small RNA Bacterial small RNAs (bsRNA) are small RNAs produced by bacteria; they are 50- to 500-nucleotide non-coding RNA molecules, highly structured and containing several stem-loops. Numerous sRNAs have been identified using both computational analysis and ...
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RNA
Non-coding RNA