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ArticleThe Journal of chemical physics2011

Cotranscriptional folding kinetics of ribonucleic acid secondary structures.

Peinan Zhao, Wenbing Zhang, Shi-Jie Chen

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21 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Computational modeling of cotranscriptional RNA folding.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2025
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  7. Landscape Zooming toward the Prediction of RNA Cotranscriptional Folding.Journal of chemical theory and computation · 2022
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  11. IsRNA1:Journal of chemical theory and computation · 2021
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  14. Predicting Cotranscriptional Folding Kinetics For Riboswitch.The journal of physical chemistry. B · 2018
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  15. Computational Methods for Modeling Aptamers and Designing Riboswitches.International journal of molecular sciences · 2017
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  16. Design of Artificial Riboswitches as Biosensors.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2017
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  17. Integration of mRNP formation and export.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2017
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  19. Fast, approximate kinetics of RNA folding.Journal of computational biology : a journal of computational molecular cell biology · 2015
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Peinan ZhaoDepartment of Physics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China.
Wenbing Zhang
Shi-Jie Chen

Funding

Statistical Mechanics of RNA FoldingR01GM063732 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA · PI CHEN, SHI-JIE · 2003 to 2018
$3.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM063732NIGMS NIH HHS R01-GM063732
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We develop a systematic helix-based computational method to predict RNA folding kinetics during transcription. In our method, the transcription is modeled as stepwise process, where each step is the transcription of a nucleotide. For each step, the kinetics algorithm predicts the population kinetics, transition pathways, folding intermediates, and the transcriptional folding products. The folding pathways, rate constants, and the conformational populations for cotranscription folding show contrastingly different features than the refolding kinetics for a fully transcribed chain. The competition between the transcription speed and rate constants for the transitions between the different nascent structures determines the RNA folding pathway and the end product of folding. For example, fast transcription favors the formation of branch-like structures than rod-like structures and chain elongation in the folding process may reduce the probability of the formation of misfolded structures. Furthermore, good theory-experiment agreements suggest that our method may provide a reliable tool for quantitative prediction for cotranscriptional RNA folding, including the kinetics for the population distribution for the whole conformational ensemble.

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RNA FoldingAlgorithmsBase SequenceKineticsMolecular Sequence DataNucleic Acid ConformationRNATranscription, GeneticRNA

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PMID22225186
PMCPMC3254582

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