NcRNA

Parent category	6. Groups of genes
Neighbouring categories	6.1. Essential genes 6.2. Membrane proteins 6.3. GTP-binding proteins 6.4. Phosphoproteins 6.5. Universally conserved proteins 6.6. Poorly characterized/ putative enzymes 6.7. Proteins of unknown function 6.8. Short peptides 6.9. ncRNA 6.10. Pseudogenes
Related categories	RNA switch RNase
Overview on the categories (Excel file) All genes and their categories (Excel file)

6S RNA

• bsrA
• bsrB

tmRNA

• ssrA

small cytoplasmatic RNA (protein secretion)

• scr

RNA component of RNase P

• rnpB

regulatory RNAs

• fsrA
• rrcM
• sr1
• SR4

antisense RNAs of toxin/antitoxin systems

• ratA
• as-bsrH
• as-yonT

small RNAs with unknown functions

• bsrC
• bsrD
• bsrE
• bsrF
• bsrH
• bsrI
• csfG
• surA (for yndL)
• surC

Antisense RNAs were predicted for the following genes: PubMed

• bglP
• comER
• ggaA
• jag
• leuA
• mbl
• mtlD
• mutS
• nadB
• ndoA
• opuBD
• sda
• sigA
• wprA
• yddR
• ydiF
• yfhD
• yndL (surA)
• yoeA
• yoqZ
• yqzJ
• ytoA
• ytoI
• ywfM
• ywqA
• yyaQ

Additional noncoding RNAs were predicted for the following intergenic regions: PubMed

• yqaJ-yqaI
• yqaO-yqaN
• yndN-lexA
• ydcO-ydcP
• yolA-yokL
• yrhK-yrhJ
• yokC-yokB
• pbpG-ywhD
• stoA-zosA
• yobI-yobJ
• vmlR-ydgF
• yrzI-yrhG
• yfmI-yfmG
• hxlR-srfAA
• mutL-ymzD
• mntA-menC
• yopM-yopL
• yizD-yjbH
• pps-xynA
• yqdB-yqbM
• yugI-alaT
• trxA-xsa
• ykwD-pbpH
• ymzA-nrdI
• yvcI-trxB
• glmM-glmS
• yhaZ-yhaX
• yneK-cotM
• trpS-oppA
• gerPA-yisI

Reviews

Sabine Brantl
Acting antisense: plasmid- and chromosome-encoded sRNAs from Gram-positive bacteria.
Future Microbiol: 2012, 7(7);853-71
[PubMed:22827307] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Jens Georg, Wolfgang R Hess
cis-antisense RNA, another level of gene regulation in bacteria.
Microbiol Mol Biol Rev: 2011, 75(2);286-300
[PubMed:21646430] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Irnov Irnov, Cynthia M Sharma, Jörg Vogel, Wade C Winkler
Identification of regulatory RNAs in Bacillus subtilis.
Nucleic Acids Res: 2010, 38(19);6637-51
[PubMed:20525796] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Pascale Romby, Emmanuelle Charpentier
An overview of RNAs with regulatory functions in gram-positive bacteria.
Cell Mol Life Sci: 2010, 67(2);217-37
[PubMed:19859665] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Lauren S Waters, Gisela Storz
Regulatory RNAs in bacteria.
Cell: 2009, 136(4);615-28
[PubMed:19239884] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Sabine Brantl
Bacterial chromosome-encoded small regulatory RNAs.
Future Microbiol: 2009, 4(1);85-103
[PubMed:19207102] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Important original publications

Pierre Nicolas, Ulrike Mäder, Etienne Dervyn, Tatiana Rochat, Aurélie Leduc, Nathalie Pigeonneau, Elena Bidnenko, Elodie Marchadier, Mark Hoebeke, Stéphane Aymerich, Dörte Becher, Paola Bisicchia, Eric Botella, Olivier Delumeau, Geoff Doherty, Emma L Denham, Mark J Fogg, Vincent Fromion, Anne Goelzer, Annette Hansen, Elisabeth Härtig, Colin R Harwood, Georg Homuth, Hanne Jarmer, Matthieu Jules, Edda Klipp, Ludovic Le Chat, François Lecointe, Peter Lewis, Wolfram Liebermeister, Anika March, Ruben A T Mars, Priyanka Nannapaneni, David Noone, Susanne Pohl, Bernd Rinn, Frank Rügheimer, Praveen K Sappa, Franck Samson, Marc Schaffer, Benno Schwikowski, Leif Steil, Jörg Stülke, Thomas Wiegert, Kevin M Devine, Anthony J Wilkinson, Jan Maarten van Dijl, Michael Hecker, Uwe Völker, Philippe Bessières, Philippe Noirot
Condition-dependent transcriptome reveals high-level regulatory architecture in Bacillus subtilis.
Science: 2012, 335(6072);1103-6
[PubMed:22383849] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)