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BMC GENOMICS
Volume 12, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-428
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (The 21st Century Centre of Excellence)
- Yamagata Prefectural Government
- Tsuruoka City, Japan
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [22241050, 09J05312] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Background: In Escherichia coli, approximately 100 regulatory small RNAs (sRNAs) have been identified experimentally and many more have been predicted by various methods. To provide a comprehensive overview of sRNAs, we analysed the low-molecular-weight RNAs (< 200 nt) of E. coli with deep sequencing, because the regulatory RNAs in bacteria are usually 50-200 nt in length. Results: We discovered 229 novel candidate sRNAs (>= 50 nt) with computational or experimental evidence of transcription initiation. Among them, the expression of seven intergenic sRNAs and three cis-antisense sRNAs was detected by northern blot analysis. Interestingly, five novel sRNAs are expressed from prophage regions and we note that these sRNAs have several specific characteristics. Furthermore, we conducted an evolutionary conservation analysis of the candidate sRNAs and summarised the data among closely related bacterial strains. Conclusions: This comprehensive screen for E. coli sRNAs using a deep sequencing approach has shown that many as-yet-undiscovered sRNAs are potentially encoded in the E. coli genome. We constructed the Escherichia coli Small RNA Browser (ECSBrowser; http://rna.iab.keio.ac.jp/), which integrates the data for previously identified sRNAs and the novel sRNAs found in this study.
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