Fig. 1From: The roles of small RNAs: insights from bacterial quorum sensingAction of Hfq-sRNA complex on mRNA. The RBS is buried within the mRNA secondary structure, inhibiting translation. The Hfq-sRNA complex upregulates the translation by interaction with mRNA, exposing the RBS outside by modifying the structure [2, 19, 21, 22, 24]Back to article page