title: Sweet business: Spot42 RNA networks with CRP to modulate catabolite repression.
abstract: Spot42 is a paradigm for small RNAs that fine-tune carbon metabolism. In this issue of Molecular Cell, Beisel and Storz (2011) reveal that this conserved RNA acts through a multioutput feedforward loop to modulate the global dynamics of sugar consumption.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Molecular Infection Biology, University of Würzburg, Josef-Schneider-Strasse 2, D-97080 Würzburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Kai
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Papenfort
authors.forename: Jörg
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Vogel