Lacto-3 RNA motif explained

The Lacto-3 RNA motif is a conserved RNA structure that was discovered by bioinformatics.^[1] Lacto-3 motif RNAs are found in a wide variety of organisms classified under Lactobacillales. Lacto-3 RNAs likely function in trans as small RNAs, and no organism is predicted to contain more than one Lacto-3 RNA.

Notes and References

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