The porB RNA motif is a conserved RNA structure that was discovered by bioinformatics.[1] porB motif RNAs are found in Neisseria.

porB
Consensus secondary structure and sequence conservation of porB RNA
Identifiers
SymbolporB
RfamRF03042
Other data
RNA typeGene; sRNA
SOSO:0001263
PDB structuresPDBe

porB RNAs are found upstream of porB genes, which encode porins, so they likely function as cis-regulatory elements. However it is also possible that the motif operates in trans as small RNAs.

References

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  1. ^ Weinberg Z, Lünse CE, Corbino KA, Ames TD, Nelson JW, Roth A, Perkins KR, Sherlock ME, Breaker RR (October 2017). "Detection of 224 candidate structured RNAs by comparative analysis of specific subsets of intergenic regions". Nucleic Acids Res. 45 (18): 10811–10823. doi:10.1093/nar/gkx699. PMC 5737381. PMID 28977401.