Table 1

The natural occurrence of ribozymes and riboswitches


Type
Species*
Rfam accession number

Ribozyme
Group I intron
Thermus thermophila [1]
RF00028


More than 20,000 sequences from all three kingdoms



Didymium iridis (branching enzyme, group I intron derivative) [46]


Group II intron
Saccharomyces cerevisiae mitochondria [17,18]
RF00029


More than 8,000 sequences from all three kingdoms


Hammerhead
Tobacco ringspot virus satellite RNA (sTRSV) [3]
RF00008


Several additional satellite RNAs of plant viruses§
RF00163


Viroids of the Avsunviroidae family [99,100]



Carnation small viroid-like RNA (CarSV RNA) [101]



Satellite DNAs of various amphibian species [102,103], Schistosoma mansoni [30] and Dolichopoda cave crickets [31]



Arabidopsis thaliana genome [33]


Hairpin
Tobacco ringspot virus satellite RNA (sTRSV) [4]
RF00173


Two additional satellite RNAs of plant viruses: sCYMV and sARMV [104]


HDV
Human hepatitis delta virus RNA [6]
RF00094


Homo sapiens genome (intronic) [29]


RNase P
Escherichia coli [2]
RF00010


More than 1,000 sequences from various Bacterial phyla
RF00011


Archeal phyla: Crenarchaeota, Euryarchaeota [105]
RF00373

VS
Neurospora crassa Varkud satellite [8]
NL




Catalytic riboswitch
Glms riboswitch
Bacillus subtilis [14]
RF00234


Bacterial phyla: Actinobacteria, Firmicutes





Riboswitch
Adenine¥
B. subtilis [106]
RF00167


Bacterial phyla: Proteobacteria, Firmicutes


Coenzyme B12
E. coli and Salmonella typhimurium btuB mRNAs [107]
RF00174


Bacterial phyla: Actinobacteria, Proteobacteria, Deinococcus-thermus, Bacteroidetes, Spirochaetes, Chloroflexi, Firmicutes, Fusobacteria, Cyanobacteria, Thermogales


Flavin mononucleotide (FMN)
20 Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria [23,24,108]
RF00050


Bacterial phyla: Actinobacteria, Deinococcus-thermus, Thermus/deinococcus group, Proteobacteria, Firmicutes, Thermotogae, Fusobacteria, Thermogales


Guanine¥
B. subtilis [25]
RF00167


Bacterial phyla: Proteobacteria, Firmicutes


Glycine
B. subtilis [109]
RF00154


Bacterial phyla: Actinobacteria, Proteobacteria, Fusobacteria, Firmicutes


Lysine
B. subtilis [25,110-112]
RF00168


Bacterial phyla: Proteobacteria, Thermogales, Firmicutes


Intracellular magnesium
S. enterica [113]
NL

S-adenosylmethionine (SAM)
B. subtilis [114-116]
RF00162


Bacterial phyla: Cyanobacteria, Actinobacteria, Proteobacteria, Firmicutes


Thiamine pyrophosphate (TPP)
Rhizobium etli [117]
RF00059


Bacterial phyla: Actinobacteria, Deinococcus-thermus, Bacteroidetes, Proteobacteria, Thermus/deinococcus group, Spirochaetes, Chloroflexi, Firmicutes, Fusobacteria, Cyanobacteria, Thermogales



Eukaryal phyla: Metazoa, Cercozoa, Fungi, Viridiplantae



Archeal phyla: Euryarchaeota


*For each type, the first entry represents the species in which the ribozyme or riboswitch was originally discovered. Rfam accession numbers for detailed sequence listings [118]; NL, not listed in Rfam. Detailed sequence listings also at [119]. §Detailed sequence listings also at [120]. Detailed sequence listings also at [121]. ¥Adenine and guanine riboswitches are listed together as purine riboswitch in Rfam.

Hammann and Westhof Genome Biology 2007 8:210   doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-4-210