IlvB-OMG RNA motif

The ilvB-OMG RNA motif is a conserved RNA structure that was discovered by bioinformatics.^[1] ilvB-OMG motif RNAs are found in Gammaproteobacteria within the poorly studied OMG group (Microbiology).

ilvB-OMG
Consensus secondary structure and sequence conservation of ilvB-OMG RNA
Identifiers
Symbol	ilvB-OMG
Rfam	RF02919
Other data
RNA type	Cis-reg
SO	SO:0005836
PDB structures	PDBe

ilvB-OMG RNAs are found upstream of genes whose protein products are involved in synthesis of branched-chain amino acids. The motif could, therefore, function as a cis-regulatory element.