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ReviewCurrent opinion in structural biology2006

The building blocks and motifs of RNA architecture.

Neocles B Leontis, Aurelie Lescoute, Eric Westhof

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Review in Current opinion in structural biology, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 190 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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190 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Neocles B LeontisDepartment of Chemistry and Center for Biomolecular Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43402, USA.
Aurelie Lescoute
Eric Westhof

Funding

SELECTION AND ANALYSIS OF STABLE RNA 3 WAY JUNCTIONSR15GM055898 · NIGMS · BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI LEONTIS, NEOCLES B · 1997 to 2010
$680k
NIGMS NIH HHS 2 R15 GM055898-03NIGMS NIH HHS R15 GM055898
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

RNA motifs can be defined broadly as recurrent structural elements containing multiple intramolecular RNA-RNA interactions, as observed in atomic-resolution RNA structures. They constitute the modular building blocks of RNA architecture, which is organized hierarchically. Recent work has focused on analyzing RNA backbone conformations to identify, define and search for new instances of recurrent motifs in X-ray structures. One current view asserts that recurrent RNA strand segments with characteristic backbone configurations qualify as independent motifs. Other considerations indicate that, to characterize modular motifs, one must take into account the larger structural context of such strand segments. This follows the biologically relevant motivation, which is to identify RNA structural characteristics that are subject to sequence constraints and that thus relate RNA architectures to sequences.

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Models, MolecularBase PairingBase SequenceComputational BiologyConserved SequenceNucleic Acid ConformationRNARNA

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PMID16713707
PMCPMC4857889

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