Common and phylogenetically widespread coding for peptides by bacterial small RNAs
Robin C Friedman, Stefan Kalkhof, Olivia Doppelt-Azeroual, Stephan Mueller, Martina Chovancova, Martin von Bergen, Benno Schwikowski
The paper quantifies the prevalence of protein-coding ORFs in bacterial sRNAs across phylogenetic diversity, finding that 7.5% of sRNAs have coding potential in some species.
bioRxiv · Nov 4, 2015Microbiology