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Throat-1 RNA motif

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throat-1
Consensus secondary structure and sequence conservation of throat-1 RNA
Identifiers
Symbolthroat-1
RfamRF03110
Other data
RNA typeGene; sRNA
SOSO:0001263
PDB structuresPDBe

The throat-1 RNA motif is a conserved RNA structure that was discovered by bioinformatics.[1] The throat-1 motif has not yet (as of 2018) been found in a classified organism, but rather is known only from metagenomic sequences isolated from the human throat is, more rarely, tongue.

Throat-1 RNAs are only known within metagenomic sequences, and these sequences often consist of short contigs that do not permit detailed analysis of nearby protein-coding genes. However, even with this technical limitation, it is apparent that throat-1 RNAs do not have a strong association with neighboring genes. Therefore, they likely function in trans as small RNAs.

References

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  1. ^ Weinberg Z, Lünse CE, Corbino KA, Ames TD, Nelson JW, Roth A, Perkins KR, Sherlock ME, Breaker RR (October 2017). "Detection of 224 candidate structured RNAs by comparative analysis of specific subsets of intergenic regions". Nucleic Acids Res. 45 (18): 10811–10823. doi:10.1093/nar/gkx699. PMC 5737381. PMID 28977401.