Assessing the conservation and targets of putative sRNAs in .

RNA regulators are often found in complex regulatory networks and may mediate metabolism and virulence in bacteria. Small RNAs (sRNA's), a class of non-coding RNAs that interact with an mRNA transcript via base pairing, modulate translation initiation and mRNA degradation. To better understand the role of sRNAs in pathogenicity several studies identified sRNAs in , however little functional characterization has followed.