Editing Small RNA (section)

== Discovery ==
The first sRNA discovered was in 1984 where [[MicF RNA|MicF]] was found to regulate the outer cell membrane in ''[[Escherichia coli|E. Coli]]'' by inhibiting the production of the protein ompF and ompC.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Mizuno |first1=T |last2=Chou |first2=M Y |last3=Inouye |first3=M |date=April 1984 |title=A unique mechanism regulating gene expression: translational inhibition by a complementary RNA transcript (micRNA). |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |volume=81 |issue=7 |pages=1966–1970 |doi=10.1073/pnas.81.7.1966 |doi-access=free |pmc=345417 |pmid=6201848|bibcode=1984PNAS...81.1966M }}</ref> The use of sRNA in regulation of gene expression was found alongside it's discovery. It was later discovered to be present across all eukaryotic organisms. In 1998 it was discovered that the sRNA can be transferred between organisms. It was later discovered in 2011 that sRNA are transferred from cell to cell inside an organism as well.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Zeng |first1=Jun |last2=Gupta |first2=Vijai Kumar |last3=Jiang |first3=Yueming |last4=Yang |first4=Bao |last5=Gong |first5=Liang |last6=Zhu |first6=Hong |date=2019-04-23 |title=Cross-Kingdom Small RNAs Among Animals, Plants and Microbes |journal=Cells |volume=8 |issue=4 |pages=371 |doi=10.3390/cells8040371 |doi-access=free |issn=2073-4409 |pmc=6523504 |pmid=31018602}}</ref>