Our recent preprint on the regulatory RNA SSR42 in Staph. Wonderful to see the arc of this story, starting out with past lab members Andy Weiss & Brooke Tomlinson before @mejobson.bsky.social came along and made it her own. Hope to have this one over the line soon.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
SSR42 is the longest noncoding RNA in the S. aureus cell and the second-most abundant transcript in the stationary phase transcriptome, second only to RNAIII. It is highly conserved across strains and...