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BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENE REGULATORY MECHANISMS
Volume 1863, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2019.194477
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Antisense RNAs; Cyanobacteria; Heterocysts; Post-transcriptional regulation; Riboswitches; sRNAs
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- German Research Foundation [HE 2544/15-1]
- AEI/FEDER, EU [BFU2016-74943-C2-1-P]
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Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic bacteria that populate widely different habitats. Accordingly, cyanobacteria exhibit a wide spectrum of lifestyles, physiologies, and morphologies and possess genome sizes and gene numbers which may vary by up to a factor of ten within the phylum. Consequently, large differences exist between individual species in the size and complexity of their regulatory networks. Several non-coding RNAs have been identified that play crucial roles in the acclimation responses of cyanobacteria to changes in the environment. Some of these regulatory RNAs are conserved throughout the cyanobacterial phylum, while others exist only in a few taxa. Here we give an overview on characterized regulatory RNAs in cyanobacteria, with a focus on regulators of photosynthesis, carbon and nitrogen metabolism. However, chances are high that these regulators represent just the tip of the iceberg.
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