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ArticleBiophysical journal2013

Free energy cost of stretching mRNA hairpin loops inhibits small RNA binding.

Yuzhong Meng, Daniel P Aalberts

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Article in Biophysical journal, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.1field-weighted citation impact, top 45% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yuzhong MengPhysics Department, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA.
Daniel P Aalberts
Williams College · US

Funding

Binding and Splicing mRNAR15GM080690 · NIGMS · WILLIAMS COLLEGE · PI AALBERTS, DANIEL PAUL · 2007 to 2009
$300k
NIGMS NIH HHS GM080690NIGMS NIH HHS R15 GM080690
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Small RNA-mRNA binding is an essential step in RNA interference, an important cellular regulatory process. Calculations of binding free energy have been used in binding site prediction, but the cost of stretching the mRNA loop when the small RNA-mRNA duplex forms requires further exploration. Here, using both polymer physics theory and simulations, we estimate the free energy of a stretched mRNA loop. We find loop stretching significantly increases the free energy of 3' supplementary/compensatory miRNA binding and siRNA binding to mRNA hairpin loops. We also make the observation that sites where 3' supplementary binding is available may bind at the seed only, and that loop stretching often favors seed-only binding over seed plus 3' supplementary binding in mRNA hairpins.

Indexed as

Nucleic Acid ConformationMicroRNAsNucleotide MotifsRNA, MessengerRNA, Small InterferingThermodynamicsMicroRNAsRNA, MessengerRNA, Small Interfering

Identifiers

PMID23442870
PMCPMC3552280
OpenAlexW1964231316

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