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Family: SAM (RF00162)

Description: SAM riboswitch (S box leader)

Summary

Clan

This family is a member of clan (CL00012), which contains the following 3 members:

SAM SAM-I-IV-variant SAM-IV

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Sequences

Alignment

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Secondary structure

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Species distribution

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Structures

For those sequences which have a structure in the Protein DataBank, we generate a mapping between EMBL, PDB and Rfam coordinate systems. The table below shows the structures on which the SAM family has been found.

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Motif matches

There are 2 motifs which match this family.

This section shows the Rfam motifs that match sequences within the seed alignment of this family. Users should be aware that the motifs are structural constructs and do not necessarily conform to taxonomic boundaries in the way that Rfam families do. More...

Original order Motif Accession Motif Description Number of Hits Fraction of Hits Sum of Bits Image
7 RM00008 GNRA tetraloop 85 0.186 992.4 Match Image
7 RM00010 Kink turn 1, 3' bulge 271 0.594 3372.6 Match Image

References

This section shows the database cross-references that we have for this Rfam family.

Literature references

  1. Grundy FJ, Henkin TM Mol Microbiol 1998;30:737-749. The S box regulon: a new global transcription termination control system for methionine and cysteine biosynthesis genes in gram-positive bacteria. PUBMED:10094622

  2. Winkler WC, Nahvi A, Sudarsan N, Barrick JE, Breaker RR Nat Struct Biol 2003;10:701-707. An mRNA structure that controls gene expression by binding S-adenosylmethionine. PUBMED:12910260

  3. Epshtein V, Mironov AS, Nudler E Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2003;100:5052-5056. The riboswitch-mediated control of sulfur metabolism in bacteria. PUBMED:12702767

  4. Rodionov DA, Vitreschak AG, Mironov AA, Gelfand MS Nucleic Acids Res 2004;32:3340-3353. Comparative genomics of the methionine metabolism in Gram-positive bacteria: a variety of regulatory systems. PUBMED:15215334

  5. Montange RK, Batey RT Nature. 2006;441:1172-1175. Structure of the S-adenosylmethionine riboswitch regulatory mRNA element. PUBMED:16810258

  6. Montange RK, Mondragon E, van Tyne D, Garst AD, Ceres P, Batey RT J Mol Biol. 2010;396:761-772. Discrimination between closely related cellular metabolites by the SAM-I riboswitch. PUBMED:20006621

  7. Stoddard CD, Montange RK, Hennelly SP, Rambo RP, Sanbonmatsu KY, Batey RT Structure. 2010;18:787-797. Free state conformational sampling of the SAM-I riboswitch aptamer domain. PUBMED:20637415

  8. Lu C, Ding F, Chowdhury A, Pradhan V, Tomsic J, Holmes WM, Henkin TM, Ke A J Mol Biol. 2010;404:803-818. SAM recognition and conformational switching mechanism in the Bacillus subtilis yitJ S box/SAM-I riboswitch. PUBMED:20951706

  9. Baird NJ, Zhang J, Hamma T, Ferre-D'Amare AR RNA. 2012;18:759-770. YbxF and YlxQ are bacterial homologs of L7Ae and bind K-turns but not K-loops. PUBMED:22355167

  10. Schroeder KT, Daldrop P, McPhee SA, Lilley DM RNA. 2012;18:1257-1266. Structure and folding of a rare, natural kink turn in RNA with an A*A pair at the 2b*2n position. PUBMED:22539525

  11. Daldrop P, Lilley DM RNA. 2013;19:357-364. The plasticity of a structural motif in RNA: structural polymorphism of a kink turn as a function of its environment. PUBMED:23325110

  12. Huang L, Wang J, Lilley DM Nucleic Acids Res. 2016;44:5390-5398. A critical base pair in k-turns determines the conformational class adopted, and correlates with biological function. PUBMED:27016741

  13. Huang L, Liao X, Li M, Wang J, Peng X, Wilson TJ, Lilley DMJ Nucleic Acids Res 2021;49:5916-5924. Structure and folding of four putative kink turns identified in structured RNA species in a test of structural prediction rules. PUBMED:33978763

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Curation and family details

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Curation

Seed source Grundy F, Henkin T, PMID:10094622
Structure source Published; PMID:10094622
Type Cis-reg; riboswitch;
Author Griffiths-Jones SRORCID logo, Gardner PPORCID logo, Ontiveros-Palacios NORCID logo
Alignment details
Alignment Number of
sequences
full 5,704
seed 457

Model information

Build commands
cmbuild -F CM SEED
cmcalibrate --mpi CM
Search command
cmsearch --cpu 4 --verbose --nohmmonly -T 30.00 -Z 742849.287494 CM SEQDB
Gathering cutoff 44.4
Trusted cutoff 44.4
Noise cutoff 44.3
Covariance model Download