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ReviewCurrent opinion in structural biology2010

Advances in RNA structure analysis by chemical probing.

Kevin M Weeks

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Review in Current opinion in structural biology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 172 papers.

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172citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

172 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Markov models of SHAPE data improve secondary structure prediction.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  6. Bioinformatics Approaches in Noncoding RNAs Research.Experientia supplementum (2012) · 2026
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  7. Predicting Single-Stranded DNA Oligonucleotides 3D Structures: An Open Issue.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2026
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  8. RNA Structure Analysis by Chemical Probing with DMS and CMCT.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
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  14. Computational modeling of cotranscriptional RNA folding.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2025
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  18. RNA Folding, Mutation, and Detection.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2024
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112 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Kevin M WeeksDepartment of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3290, USA. weeks@unc.edu

Funding

Structure of the HIV-1 GenomeR01AI068462 · NIAID · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI WEEKS, KEVIN M · 2006 to 2020
$7.4M
Retroviral Genomic RNA Dimer Structure and FunctionR01GM064803 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI WEEKS, KEVIN M · 2002 to 2016
$3.7M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI068462NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM064803
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

RNA is arguably the most versatile biological macromolecule because of its ability both to encode and to manipulate genetic information. The diverse roles of RNA depend on its ability to fold back on itself to form biologically functional structures that bind small molecule and large protein ligands, to change conformation, and to affect the cellular regulatory state. These features of RNA biology can be structurally interrogated using chemical mapping experiments. The usefulness and applications of RNA chemical probing technologies have expanded dramatically over the past five years because of several critical advances. These innovations include new sequence-independent RNA chemistries, algorithmic tools for high-throughput analysis of complex data sets composed of thousands of measurements, new approaches for interpreting chemical probing data for both secondary and tertiary structure prediction, facile methods for following time-dependent processes, and the willingness of individual research groups to tackle increasingly bold problems in RNA structural biology.

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AnimalsBase SequenceMolecular Sequence DataNucleic Acid ConformationRNASoftwareRNA

Identifiers

PMID20447823
PMCPMC2916962

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