This important study by Bi and colleagues employed a clever genetics screen to uncover the role of the GidB rRNA methylase in translation fidelity, under certain conditions, in Mycobacterium smegmatis ...

Technologies to mine the microbiome For decades, sequence-based bacterial analysis relied on genes encoding the 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA). 16S rRNA genes consist of highly conserved nucleotide ...

The main types of rRNA include: Small Subunit rRNA: In prokaryotes, the small subunit contains the 16S rRNA, while in eukaryotes ... The rRNA structures also provide binding sites for ribosomal ...