Gut-1 RNA motif explained

Gut-1 RNA
Width:	275
Symbol:	Gut-1
Altsymbols:	gt-1
Rfam:	RF01706
Rna Type:	sRNA
Tax Domain:	Metagenomic camples

The Gut-1 RNA motif (also called gt-1) is a conserved RNA structure identified by bioinformatics.^{[1] [2]} These RNAs are present in environmental sequences, and as of 2010 are not known to be present in any species that has been grown under laboratory conditions. Gut-1 RNA is exclusively found in DNA from uncultivated bacteria present in samples from the human gut.

Notes and References

1. Weinberg Z, Wang JX, Bogue J, etal . Comparative genomics reveals 104 candidate structured RNAs from bacteria, archaea and their metagenomes . Genome Biol . 11 . 3 . R31 . March 2010 . 20230605 . 10.1186/gb-2010-11-3-r31 . 2864571 . free .
2. Weinberg Z, Perreault J, Meyer MM, Breaker RR . Exceptional structured noncoding RNAs revealed by bacterial metagenome analysis . Nature . 462 . 7273 . 656–659 . December 2009 . 19956260 . 10.1038/nature08586 . 4140389. 2009Natur.462..656W .