Metatranscriptomics reveals unique microbial small RNAs in the ocean’s water column

Yanmei Shi, Gene W. Tyson and Edward F. DeLong ()
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Nature, 2009, vol. 459, issue 7244, 266-269

Abstract: Small RNAs at sea Small non-coding RNAs are found in microbial cells as well as eukaryotes. Most known microbial small RNAs function as regulators of genes involved in central physiological processes, but our knowledge of small RNAs has been limited to microbial strains grown in the laboratory. Metatranscriptomics, the recently developed technique allowing the analysis of the collective transcriptome of uncultured microbial communities, can broaden the picture to other more exotic microbes. A new metatranscriptomic analysis of seawater taken from various depths at the deep-water station ALOHA, north of Hawaii, reveals a vast array of new small RNA species, derived from diverse taxa.

Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1038/nature08055

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