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ArticleNature methods2014

RNA motif discovery by SHAPE and mutational profiling (SHAPE-MaP).

Nathan A Siegfried, Steven Busan, Greggory M Rice, Julie A E Nelson, Kevin M Weeks

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Article in Nature methods, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 445 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

445 citing papers in PubMed, 696 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nathan A Siegfried1] Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. [2].
Steven Busan1] Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. [2].
Greggory M Rice1] Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. [2].
Julie A E NelsonDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Kevin M WeeksDepartment of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

Virology, Immunology, and Microbiology CoreP30AI050410 · NIAID · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI DAVID M. MARGOLIS · 2001 to 2026
$76.9M
Structure of the HIV-1 GenomeR01AI068462 · NIAID · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI WEEKS, KEVIN M · 2006 to 2020
$7.4M
MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOPHYSICS TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM008570 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI KUHLMAN, BRIAN A, SLEP, KEVIN C · 1995 to 2022
$5.1M
Rapid and Generic Discovery of Small Molecule Ligands Targeting RNAR01GM098662 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI WEEKS, KEVIN M · 2011 to 2014
$1.2M
Tertiary Structure Discovery in the HIV-1 GenomeF32GM101696 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI SIEGFRIED, NATHAN A · 2011 to 2012
$59k
REGULATION BY COPPER OF PLASTOCYANIN AND CYTOCHROME EXPRF32GM010169 · NIGMS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI MERCHANT, SABEEHA · 1985 to 1986
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many biological processes are RNA-mediated, but higher-order structures for most RNAs are unknown, which makes it difficult to understand how RNA structure governs function. Here we describe selective 2'-hydroxyl acylation analyzed by primer extension and mutational profiling (SHAPE-MaP) that makes possible de novo and large-scale identification of RNA functional motifs. Sites of 2'-hydroxyl acylation by SHAPE are encoded as noncomplementary nucleotides during cDNA synthesis, as measured by massively parallel sequencing. SHAPE-MaP-guided modeling identified greater than 90% of accepted base pairs in complex RNAs of known structure, and we used it to define a new model for the HIV-1 RNA genome. The HIV-1 model contains all known structured motifs and previously unknown elements, including experimentally validated pseudoknots. SHAPE-MaP yields accurate and high-resolution secondary-structure models, enables analysis of low-abundance RNAs, disentangles sequence polymorphisms in single experiments and will ultimately democratize RNA-structure analysis.

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AlgorithmsBase SequenceDNA Mutational AnalysisHIV-1Molecular Sequence DataNucleotide MotifsRNA, ViralSequence Analysis, RNARNA, Viral

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PMID25028896
PMCPMC4259394
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