The Flavo-1 RNA motif is a conserved RNA

RNA

Ribonucleic acid , or RNA, is one of the three major macromolecules that are essential for all known forms of life....

 structure that was identified by bioinformatics

Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics is the application of computer science and information technology to the field of biology and medicine. Bioinformatics deals with algorithms, databases and information systems, web technologies, artificial intelligence and soft computing, information and computation theory, software...

. The vast majority of Flavo-1 RNAs are found in Flavobacteria

Flavobacteria

The class Flavobacteria is composed of a single order of environmental bacteria. Flavobacteria are a group of commensal bacteria and opportunistic pathogens. Flavobacterium psychrophilum causes the septicemic diseases rainbow trout fry syndrome and bacterial cold water disease...

, but some were detected in the phylum

Phylum

In biology, a phylum The term was coined by Georges Cuvier from Greek φῦλον phylon, "race, stock," related to φυλή phyle, "tribe, clan." is a taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class. "Phylum" is equivalent to the botanical term division....

 Bacteroidetes

Bacteroidetes

The phylum Bacteroidetes is composed of three large classes of bacteria that are widely distributed in the environment, including in soil, in sediments, sea water and in the guts and on the skin of animals....

, which contains Flavobacteria, or the phylum Spirochaetes, which is evolutionarily related to Bacteroidetes. It was presumed that Flavo-1 RNAs function as non-coding RNA

Non-coding RNA

A non-coding RNA is a functional RNA molecule that is not translated into a protein. Less-frequently used synonyms are non-protein-coding RNA , non-messenger RNA and functional RNA . The term small RNA is often used for short bacterial ncRNAs...

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See also

• Acido-Lenti-1 RNA motif
  Acido-Lenti-1 RNA motif
  The Acido-Lenti-1 RNA motif describes a predicted non-coding RNA that is found in bacteria within the phyla acidobacteria and lentisphaerae. It is sometimes found nearby to group II introns, but the reason for this apparent association is unknown.-See also:...
  
  
• Bacteroidales-1 RNA motif
  Bacteroidales-1 RNA motif
  The Bacteroidales-1 RNA motif is a conserved RNA structure identified by bioinformatics. It has been identified only in bacteria within the order Bacteroidales...
  
  
• Collinsella-1 RNA motif
  Collinsella-1 RNA motif
  The Collinsella-1 RNA motif denotes a particular conserved RNA structure discovered by bioinformatics. Of the six sequences belonging to this motif that were originally identified, five are from uncultivated bacteria residing in the human gut, while only the sixth is in a cultivated species,...
  
  
• Chloroflexi-1 RNA motif
  Chloroflexi-1 RNA motif
  The Chloroflexi-1 RNA motif is a conserved RNA structure detected by bioinformatics within the species Chloroflexus aggregans. C. aggregans has three predicted Chloroflexi-1 RNAs, which are located nearby to one another. This arrangement might suggest a repetitive element. C...