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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2012

Kinetic mechanism of conformational switch between bistable RNA hairpins.

Xiaojun Xu, Shi-Jie Chen

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19 citing papers in PubMed.

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  12. Understanding the kinetic mechanism of RNA single base pair formation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016
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  13. A Method to Predict the Structure and Stability of RNA/RNA Complexes.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2016
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  14. Mimicking Ribosomal Unfolding of RNA Pseudoknot in a Protein Channel.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2015
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  16. A Method to Predict the 3D Structure of an RNA Scaffold.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2015
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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Xiaojun XuDepartment of Physics, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, United States.
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 GM063732NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM063732
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transitions between the different conformational states play a critical role in many RNA catalytic and regulatory functions. In this study, we use the Kinetic Monte Carlo method to investigate the kinetic mechanism for the conformational switches between bistable RNA hairpins. We find three types of conformational switch pathways for RNA hairpins: refolding after complete unfolding, folding through basepair-exchange pathways and through pseudoknot-assisted pathways, respectively. The result of the competition between the three types of pathways depends mainly on the location of the rate-limiting base stacks (such as the GC base stacks) in the structures. Depending on the structural relationships between the two bistable hairpins, the conformational switch can follow single or multiple dominant pathways. The predicted folding pathways are supported by the activation energy results derived from the Arrhenius plot as well as the NMR spectroscopy data.

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Base PairingBase SequenceKineticsMonte Carlo MethodNucleic Acid ConformationRNAThermodynamicsRNA

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PMID22765263
PMCPMC3427750

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