Table 2.

Biofilm-associated non-coding regulatory RNA in Gram-positive bacteria.

Gram-positive bacteria	Non-coding RNA	Role/Function	References
Staphylococcus aureus	RsaA	enhances biofilm formation by repression of MgrA	Tomasini et al. (2017)
Staphylococcus aureus	RNAIII	stimulates Agr quorum sensing mediated pathway	Tomasini et al. (2017)
Staphylococcus epidermidis	IcaZ	represses icaR mRNA translation	Lerch et al. (2019)
Bacillus subtilis	RsaE	regulates PIA mediated biofilms	Schoenfelder et al. (2019)
Streptococcus mutans	FasX	inhibits collagen-binding pilus and biofilm	(Liu et al., 2012; Danger et al., 2015)
Streptococcus mutans	sRNA0426	regulates exopolysaccharide biosynthesis	Yin et al. (2020)
Streptococcus mutans	ASvicR	negatively regulates biofilm biomass	Lei et al. (2018)
Streptococcus sanguinis	csRNA	negatively regulates biofilm formation by repression of pilT mRNA	Ota et al. (2018)
Streptococcus suis	rss04	represses capsular polysaccharides and enhance biofilm formation	Xiao et al. (2017)
Enterococcus faecalis	AswalR	reduces exopolysaccharide synthesis and biofilm formation	Wu et al. (2021a)