LivK RNA motif explained

livK RNA
Symbol:livK
Rfam:RF01744
Rna Type:Cis-reg
Tax Domain:Bacteria

The livK RNA motif describes a conserved RNA structure that was discovered using bioinformatics.[1] The livK motif is detected only in the species Pseudomonas syringae. It is found in the potential 5' untranslated regions (5' UTRs) of livK genes and downstream livM and livH genes, as well as the 5' UTRs of amidase genes. The liv genes are predicted to be transporters of branched-chain amino acids, i.e., leucine, isoleucine or valine. The specific reaction catalyzed the amidase genes is not predicted.

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 .