NhaA-II RNA motif

The nhaA-II RNA motif is a conserved RNA structure that was discovered by bioinformatics.^[1] nhaA-II motifs are found in Caulobacterales.

nhaA-II
Consensus secondary structure and sequence conservation of nhaA-II RNA
Identifiers
Symbol	nhaA-II
Rfam	RF03038
Other data
RNA type	Cis-reg
SO	SO:0005836
PDB structures	PDBe

nhaA-II motif RNAs likely function as cis-regulatory elements, in view of their positions upstream of protein-coding genes. nhaA-I RNAs typically occur upstream of genes that encode exchangers of sodium ions and protons. More rarely, they also exist upstream of methyltransferases that use S-adenosylmethionine as a donor.