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Predicted structure of the exsA mRNA region encompassing the 37-nt untranslated region (lowercase) and a portion of the coding sequence (uppercase) as determined using mFOLD. The predicted Shine-Dalgarno sequence is boxed in red, and the AUG start codon is boxed in blue.