small RNA

shetler · Post by **shetler** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 3:36 am

Hello,
I am preparing a presentation on "the roles of small RNA in the adaptive responses of bacteria," and I have to deal with an example, after doing research I thought of RNAIII of S.aureus but it is a response to quorum sensing and it's not what I want.

I wanted to know if there are Small RNA that have this role (in the adaptive responses, virulence) in plasmids (xenobiotics if possible).
Thank you.

deleted-71958 · Post by **deleted-71958** » Sat Nov 19, 2011 11:57 am

Hi shetler!
I'm so glad that you're doing research about bacteria and RNA! Molecular biology is one of my favorite fields of science

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I think what you're looking for is "regulatory" RNA, and I've found a paper that you can access for examples of specific strains that they studied the RNA from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19239884. Just click on the "Free" icon on the top right-hand side.

In addition, I found this very interesting article about LARGE RNA, and I thought you might be interested. It's very short, but gives quite an exciting summary of the discovery.
http://www.physorg.com/news178987799.html

Good luck!
Ktsshao

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