Our new paper is out in PNAS! We show that competition for binding to the Hfq matchmaker disfavors mismatched sRNA-mRNA combinations while allowing matched sRNA-mRNAs to form stable pairs. Kudos to Jorjethe Roca and Yi-Lan Chen for their fantastic work on this problem! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Small noncoding RNAs (sRNAs) regulate gene expression in Escherichia coli bacteria
in response to diverse stimuli in the environment and the host. ...
