User:Amarchais/RsaOG RNA



RsaOG (acronym for RNA S. aureus Orsay G) is a non-coding RNA that was discovered in the pathogenic bacteria Staphylococcus aureus N315 using a large scale computational screening based on phylogenetic profiling. It was subsequently identified in other strains under the name of RsaI. The rsaOG gene is conserved in all Staphylococcaceae sequenced genomes. Northern blot experiments show that RsaOG is expressed in several S. aureus strains,. Mapping of RsaOG ends indicates a size of 146 nucleotides in S. aureus. The rsaOG function is unknown.