SroC RNA

The bacterial SroC RNA is a non-coding RNA gene of around 160 nucleotides in length. SroC is found in several enterobacterial species.^[1] This RNA interacts with the Hfq protein.

sroC RNA
Predicted secondary structure and sequence conservation of sroC
Identifiers
Symbol	sroC
Rfam	RF00369
Other data
RNA type	Gene; sRNA
Domain(s)	Bacteria
SO	SO:0000655
PDB structures	PDBe

SroC acts as a ‘sponge,’ and base pairs with and regulates activity of the sRNA GcvB. This interaction triggers the degradation of GcvB by RNase E, alleviating the GcvB-mediated mRNA repression of other amino acid-related transport and metabolic genes.^[2][3]