Microbes and RNA – Not Something to Sneeze At

You’ve heard the phrase "don’t kill the messenger," but what if the "messenger" (e.g., mRNA) was inherently designed to kill you? A key frontier in understanding the pathogenesis of many infectious diseases is the role of microbial RNAs. Groundbreaking discoveries from CRISPR to riboswitches have established RNA-based processes as novel, fascinating, and powerful entities in the microbial world. It's a pretty good bet that there's a lot more out there to be discovered.
This collection provides a set of accessible articles on various aspects of RNA biology in microbial systems. We hope that they will bring you up to speed on several interesting aspects of microbial molecular biology, and also stoke your interest to investigate and expand our understanding of RNAs in the microbial world.
Jeff Wilusz, Editor in Chief,
WIREs RNA
Introduction
Editorial Commentary
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Jeffrey Wilusz
Published Online: Aug 17 2017
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1439
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Bacteriology
Advanced Review
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Michele Felletti,Jörg S. Hartig
Published Online: Sep 30 2016
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1395
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Advanced Review
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Michelle M. Meyer
Published Online: Jun 14 2016
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1370
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Advanced Review
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Michael J. Ellis,David B. Haniford
Published Online: Feb 04 2016
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1341
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Advanced Review
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Bonnie A. McNeil,Cameron Semper,Steven Zimmerly
Published Online: Feb 15 2016
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1339
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Advanced Review
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Federica Briani,Thomas Carzaniga,Gianni Dehò
Published Online: Jan 11 2016
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1328
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Advanced Review
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Jinwei Zhang,Adrian R. Ferré‐D'Amaré
Published Online: May 08 2015
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1285
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Virology
Opinion
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Thomas Hermann
Published Online: Jun 16 2016
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1373
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Eric Roberto Guimarães Rocha Aguiar,Roenick Proveti Olmo,João Trindade Marques
Published Online: May 12 2016
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1361
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Mei‐Ling Li,Kuo‐Feng Weng,Shin‐Ru Shih,Gary Brewer
Published Online: Apr 05 2016
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1351
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Jason D. Fernandes,David S. Booth,Alan D. Frankel
Published Online: Mar 01 2016
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1342
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Alyssa C. Hill,Laura E. Bartley,Susan J. Schroeder
Published Online: Jan 25 2016
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1330
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Advanced Review
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Carolin Vogt,Jens Bohne
Published Online: Jan 14 2016
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1323
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Binbin Ding,Yali Qin,Mingzhou Chen
Published Online: Jan 08 2016
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1326
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Jing Ouyang,Jiayue Hu,Ji‐Long Chen
Published Online: Dec 15 2015
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1321
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Ming‐Bo Wang,Neil A. Smith
Published Online: Oct 20 2015
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1311
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Andrew P. Rice
Published Online: Sep 22 2015
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1308
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Anas Khawaja,Vaclav Vopalensky,Martin Pospisek
Published Online: Oct 28 2014
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1268
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Parasitology
Advanced Review
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Shruthi Sridhar Vembar,Dorothea Droll,Artur Scherf
Published Online: May 26 2016
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1365
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Laurie K. Read,Julius Lukeš,Hassan Hashimi
Published Online: Nov 02 2015
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1313
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Mycology
Focus Article
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Amanda L. M. Bloom,Jay Leipheimer,John C. Panepinto
Published Online: May 19 2017
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1424
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Pierre Dagenais,Nicolas Girard,Eric Bonneau,Pascale Legault
Published Online: Apr 06 2017
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1421
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