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ReviewJournal of molecular biology2022

How does RNA fold dynamically?

David Z Bushhouse, Edric K Choi, Laura M Hertz, Julius B Lucks

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Review in Journal of molecular biology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

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36citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

36 citing papers in PubMed.

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  9. CAR-SPLASH identifies nascent pre-mRNA structures implicated in kinetic coupling and alternative splicing.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  15. RNA Structure: Past, Future, and Gene Therapy Applications.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

David Z BushhouseInterdisciplinary Biological Sciences Graduate Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA; Center for Synthetic Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA. Electronic address: https://www.twitter.com/DavidBushhouse.
Edric K ChoiInterdisciplinary Biological Sciences Graduate Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA; Center for Synthetic Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.
Laura M HertzInterdisciplinary Biological Sciences Graduate Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA; Center for Synthetic Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA. Electronic address: https://www.twitter.com/Laura_M_Hertz.
Julius B LucksInterdisciplinary Biological Sciences Graduate Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA; Center for Synthetic Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA; Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA; Center for Water Research, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA; Center for Engineering Sustainability and Resilience, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA. Electronic address: jblucks@northwestern.edu.

Funding

Developing Capacity to Evaluate Training Programs via Development of Human, Institutional and Social CapitalT32GM008449 · NIGMS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI LEONARD, JOSHUA NATHANIEL · 1993 to 2023
$7.8M
Molecular Biophysics Training Program at Northwestern UniversityT32GM008382 · NIGMS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI RADHAKRISHNAN, ISHWAR · 1990 to 2020
$4.3M
Molecular Biophysics Training Program at Northwestern UniversityT32GM140995 · NIGMS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI Heather Wendy Pinkett, Reza Vafabakhsh · 2021 to 2026
$2.5M
Functional Roles of Nascent RNA Structure in Regulating and Coordinating Gene Expression - supplementR01GM130901 · NIGMS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI LUCKS, JULIUS BEAU · 2020 to 2023
$1.2M
Maximizing Quantitative Structural Information from High-Throughput RNA Structure ProbingR03HG011113 · NHGRI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI LUCKS, JULIUS BEAU · 2020 to 2021
$159k
NHGRI NIH HHS R03 HG011113NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM130901NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008382NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008449NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM140995
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent advances in interrogating RNA folding dynamics have shown the classical model of RNA folding to be incomplete. Here, we pose three prominent questions for the field that are at the forefront of our understanding of the importance of RNA folding dynamics for RNA function. The first centers on the most appropriate biophysical framework to describe changes to the RNA folding energy landscape that a growing RNA chain encounters during transcriptional elongation. The second focuses on the potential ubiquity of strand displacement - a process by which RNA can rapidly change conformations - and how this process may be generally present in broad classes of seemingly different RNAs. The third raises questions about the potential importance and roles of cellular protein factors in RNA conformational switching. Answers to these questions will greatly improve our fundamental knowledge of RNA folding and function, drive biotechnological advances that utilize engineered RNAs, and potentially point to new areas of biology yet to be discovered.

Indexed as

RNARNA FoldingKineticsRNAconformational switchingcotranscriptional RNA foldingenergy landscapesprotein-mediated RNA foldingstrand displacement

Identifiers

PMID35659535
PMCPMC9474645

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