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ArticleRNA (New York, N.Y.)2010

Thermodynamic characterization of naturally occurring RNA tetraloops.

Justin P Sheehy, Amber R Davis, Brent M Znosko

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39 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Justin P SheehyDepartment of Chemistry, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri 63103, USA.
Amber R Davis
Brent M Znosko

Funding

Understanding the Thermodynamics and Structure of RNA Secondary Structure MotifsR15GM085699 · NIGMS · SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY · PI ZNOSKO, BRENT · 2009 to 2025
$2.0M
NIGMS NIH HHS R15 GM085699NIGMS NIH HHS R15GM085699
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although tetraloops are one of the most frequently occurring secondary structure motifs in RNA, less than one-third of the 30 most frequently occurring RNA tetraloops have been thermodynamically characterized. Therefore, 24 stem-loop sequences containing common tetraloops were optically melted, and the thermodynamic parameters DeltaH degrees , DeltaS degrees , DeltaG degrees (37,) and T(M) for each stem-loop were determined. These new experimental values, on average, are 0.7 kcal/mol different from the values predicted for these tetraloops using the model proposed by Vecenie CJ, Morrow CV, Zyra A, Serra MJ. 2006. Biochemistry 45: 1400-1407. The data for the 24 tetraloops reported here were then combined with the data for 28 tetraloops that were published previously. A new model, independent of terminal mismatch data, was derived to predict the free energy contribution of previously unmeasured tetraloops. The average absolute difference between the measured values and the values predicted using this proposed model is 0.4 kcal/mol. This new experimental data and updated predictive model allow for more accurate calculations of the free energy of RNA stem-loops containing tetraloops and, furthermore, should allow for improved prediction of secondary structure from sequence. It was also shown that tetraloops within the sequence 5'-GCCNNNNGGC-3' are, on average, 0.6 kcal/mol more stable than the same tetraloop within the sequence 5'-GGCNNNNGCC-3'. More systemic studies are required to determine the full extent of non-nearest-neighbor effects on tetraloop stability.

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Nucleic Acid ConformationBase Pair MismatchBase SequenceDatabases, Nucleic AcidModels, MolecularRNARNA StabilityThermodynamicsRNA

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PMID20047989
PMCPMC2811670

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