Jörg Vogel

TL;DR: The genome-wide RNA compendium will allow for a better understanding of meningococcal transcriptome organization and riboregulation with implications for colonization of the human nasopharynx.

TL;DR: The protein ProQ has been identified as a global small noncoding RNA-binding protein in Salmonella and a similar role is anticipated for its numerous homologs in divergent bacterial speci ccies as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: This work reports that RelA, a protein long known as the central regulator of the bacterial-stringent response, acts on Hfq and thereby affects the physiological activity of RyhB sRNA as a regulator of iron homeostasis and proposes that, by increasing the level of the hexameric form of H fq, RelA enables binding of RNAs whose affinity for HfQ is low.

TL;DR: A powerful and modular tool called ANNOgesic is constructed that provides the required analyses and simplifies RNA-seq-based bacterial and archaeal genome annotation and predicts and annotates numerous features, including small noncoding RNAs, with high precision.

TL;DR: This work focuses on an approach-Gradient sequencing or Grad-seq-which has recently guided the discovery of protein ProQ and its associated small RNAs as a new domain of post-transcriptional control in bacteria.