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ArticleBiophysical journal2015

Modelling toehold-mediated RNA strand displacement.

Petr Šulc, Thomas E Ouldridge, Flavio Romano, Jonathan P K Doye, Ard A Louis

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Article in Biophysical journal, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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5 authors.

Petr ŠulcCenter for Studies in Physics and Biology, Rockefeller University, New York, New York; Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. Electronic address: petr.sulc@rockefeller.edu.
Thomas E OuldridgeRudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; Department of Mathematics, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom.
Flavio RomanoPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Jonathan P K DoyePhysical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Ard A LouisRudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We study the thermodynamics and kinetics of an RNA toehold-mediated strand displacement reaction with a recently developed coarse-grained model of RNA. Strand displacement, during which a single strand displaces a different strand previously bound to a complementary substrate strand, is an essential mechanism in active nucleic acid nanotechnology and has also been hypothesized to occur in vivo. We study the rate of displacement reactions as a function of the length of the toehold and temperature and make two experimentally testable predictions: that the displacement is faster if the toehold is placed at the 5' end of the substrate; and that the displacement slows down with increasing temperature for longer toeholds.

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Molecular Dynamics SimulationBase SequenceMolecular Sequence DataNucleic Acid ConformationRNARNA

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PMID25762335
PMCPMC4375624

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