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Rfam: All Known Families of RNA in One Database

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https://rfam.xfam.org/

One possibility is to collect all RNA molecules in a database. For this purpose, Rfam,

for example, provides an overview of all RNA molecules (Gardner et al. 2011) that have

been characterized in more detail to date. In particular, RNA molecules can be grouped

into families. This means that a certain structure with which the RNA performs its function

was retained in evolution and is then found in quite a large number of organisms.

IREs are one example. If such an RNA structure is present, the subsequent further

mRNA sequence is only read and a protein that uses or utilises iron in some form is then

produced by the ribosome if the iron level is sufficiently high.

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https://rfam.xfam.org/search/keyword?query=IRE

Rfam searches with the keyword “IRE”, the correct entry is then:

2  Magic RNA