Global analysis of the RNA-RNA interactome in Acinetobacter baumannii AB5075 uncovers a small regulatory RNA repressing the virulence-related outer membrane protein CarO
F. J. Hamrock, D. Ryan, A. Shaibah, A. S. Ershova, A. Mogre, M. M. Sulimani, S. Reichardt, K. Hokamp, A. J. Westermann, C. Kröger
The paper identifies a small regulatory RNA, Aar, that represses virulence-related genes in A. baumannii through antisense base-pairing, revealing sRNA-mediated gene regulation in this pathogen.
bioRxiv · Dec 4, 2023Microbiology