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ArticleNucleic acids research2015

Direct-Coupling Analysis of nucleotide coevolution facilitates RNA secondary and tertiary structure prediction.

Eleonora De Leonardis, Benjamin Lutz, Sebastian Ratz, Simona Cocco, Rémi Monasson, Alexander Schug, Martin Weigt

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers.

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Eleonora De LeonardisComputational and Quantitative Biology, Sorbonne Universités, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, UMR 7238, 75006 Paris, France Computational and Quantitative Biology, CNRS, UMR 7238, 75006 Paris, France Laboratoire de Physique Statistique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, associé au CNRS et à l'Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005 Paris, France.
Benjamin LutzSteinbuch Centre for Computing, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, 76133 Karlsruhe, Germany Fakultät für Physik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, 76133 Karlsruhe, Germany.
Sebastian RatzSteinbuch Centre for Computing, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, 76133 Karlsruhe, Germany Fakultät für Physik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, 76133 Karlsruhe, Germany.
Simona CoccoLaboratoire de Physique Statistique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, associé au CNRS et à l'Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005 Paris, France.
Rémi MonassonLaboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, associé au CNRS et à l'Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005 Paris, France.
Alexander SchugSteinbuch Centre for Computing, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, 76133 Karlsruhe, Germany schug@kit.edu.
Martin WeigtComputational and Quantitative Biology, Sorbonne Universités, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, UMR 7238, 75006 Paris, France Computational and Quantitative Biology, CNRS, UMR 7238, 75006 Paris, France martin.weigt@upmc.fr.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite the biological importance of non-coding RNA, their structural characterization remains challenging. Making use of the rapidly growing sequence databases, we analyze nucleotide coevolution across homologous sequences via Direct-Coupling Analysis to detect nucleotide-nucleotide contacts. For a representative set of riboswitches, we show that the results of Direct-Coupling Analysis in combination with a generalized Nussinov algorithm systematically improve the results of RNA secondary structure prediction beyond traditional covariance approaches based on mutual information. Even more importantly, we show that the results of Direct-Coupling Analysis are enriched in tertiary structure contacts. By integrating these predictions into molecular modeling tools, systematically improved tertiary structure predictions can be obtained, as compared to using secondary structure information alone.

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AlgorithmsEvolution, MolecularModels, MolecularNucleic Acid ConformationRiboswitchRNASequence AlignmentSequence Analysis, RNASequence Homology, Nucleic AcidRiboswitchRNA

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PMID26420827
PMCPMC4666395

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