MicrobiologybioRxiv
Common and phylogenetically widespread coding for peptides by bacterial small RNAs
Robin C Friedman, Stefan Kalkhof, Olivia Doppelt-Azeroual…·Benno Schwikowski
The paper quantifies the prevalence of protein-coding ORFs in bacterial sRNAs across phylogenetic diversity, finding that 7.5% of sRNAs have coding potential in some species.
DOI 10.1186/s12864-017-3932-y