Abstract
So far, bacterial regulatory sRNAs of length less than 50 nucleotides have been poorly understood, and a low number of such molecules has been identified. The first microRNA-size functional ribonucleic acid occurring in a bacterial cell has been described only recently, and it was found to be encoded by a bacteriophage. One of the reasons for such a scarcity in this field is the lack of procedures intended for the isolation and selection of molecules of this size from bacterial cells. To meet these difficulties, we describe here the few-step procedure of isolation, purification, selection, and sequencing library preparation that is dedicated to the fraction of very small, bacterial RNA molecules.
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This work was supported by the National Science Centre (Poland) grants No. 2018/29/B/NZ1/00549 to G.W. and No. 2018/30/E/NZ1/00400 to B.N-F.
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Bloch, S. et al. (2024). Analysis of Phage Regulatory RNAs: Sequencing Library Construction from the Fraction of Small Prokaryotic RNAs Less Than 50 Nucleotides in Length. In: Arluison, V., Valverde, C. (eds) Bacterial Regulatory RNA. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2741. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-3565-0_3
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