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The ilvH RNA motif is a conserved RNA structure that was discovered by bioinformatics.[1] ilvH motifs are found in Betaproteobacteria.
| ilvH | |
|---|---|
 Consensus secondary structure and sequence conservation of ilvH RNA | |
| Identifiers | |
| Symbol | ilvH |
| Rfam | RF02993 |
| Other data | |
| RNA type | Cis-reg |
| SO | SO:0005836 |
| PDB structures | PDBe |
ilvH motif RNAs likely function as cis-regulatory elements, in view of their positions upstream of protein-coding genes. Specifically, the RNAs are upstream of genes that encode a predicted acetolactate synthase, which is involved in the synthesis of branched-chain amino acids.
References
edit- ^ Weinberg Z, Lünse CE, Corbino KA, Ames TD, Nelson JW, Roth A, Perkins KR, Sherlock ME, Breaker RR (October 2017). "Detection of 224 candidate structured RNAs by comparative analysis of specific subsets of intergenic regions". Nucleic Acids Res. 45 (18): 10811–10823. doi:10.1093/nar/gkx699. PMC 5737381. PMID 28977401.