The Enterobacteria rnk leader is a putative attenuator element identified by

bioinformatics Bioinformatics () is an interdisciplinary field that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data, in particular when the data sets are large and complex. As an interdisciplinary field of science, bioinformatics combi ...

within bacteria of the γ-proteobacterial

Enterobacteriales Enterobacterales is an order of Gram-negative bacteria, Gram-negative, non-spore forming, Facultative anaerobic organism, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped bacteria with the class Gammaproteobacteria. The type genus of this order is ''Enterob ...

order. It is located upstream of the ''rnk'' gene, encoding a

nucleoside diphosphate kinase Nucleoside-diphosphate kinases (NDPKs, also NDP kinase, (poly)nucleotide kinases and nucleoside diphosphokinases) are enzymes that catalyze the exchange of terminal phosphate between different nucleoside diphosphates (NDP) and triphosphates (NTP) ...

regulator, and presents a Rho-independent terminator at the 3' end. This

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is presumed to operate as a non-coding leader, which regulatory mechanism remains to be elucidated. The motif might be related to other rnk-and greA-leaders, such as

Pseudomonas rnk leader The ''Pseudomonas'' rnk leader is a putative attenuator element identified by bioinformatics within bacteria of the γ-proteobacterial ''Pseudomonas'' genus. It is located upstream of the ''rnk'' gene, encoding a nucleoside diphosphate kinase reg ...

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*{{Rfam, id=RF01771, name=Enterobacteria rnk leader Cis-regulatory RNA elements

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