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The amazing world of bacterial structured RNAs

Eric Westhof

Author Affiliations

Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN, Université de Strasbourg, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire du CNRS, 15 rue René Descartes, F-67084 Strasbourg, France

Genome Biology 2010, 11:108 doi:10.1186/gb-2010-11-3-108

Published: 15 March 2010

Abstract

The discovery of several new structured non-coding RNAs in bacterial and archaeal genomes and metagenomes raises burning questions about their biological and biochemical functions.

See related research article by Weinberg et al.: http://genomebiology.com/2010/11/3/R31 webcite