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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 36, Issue 17, Pages 5652-5659Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn525
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- National Science Foundation [MCB-0340958)]
- National Institutes of Health [RGM068426]
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Thermodynamic parameters are reported for duplex formation of 40 self-complementary RNA duplexes containing wobble terminal base pairs with all possible 3' single and double-nucleotide overhangs, mimicking the structures of short interfering RNAs (siRNA) and microRNAs (miRNA). Based on nearest neighbor analysis, the addition of a single 3' dangling nucleotide increases the stability of duplex formation up to 1 kcal/mol in a sequence-dependent manner. The addition of a second dangling nucleotide increases the stability of duplexes closed with wobble base pairs in an idiosyncratic manner. The results allow for the development of a nearest neighbor model, which improves the predication of free energy and melting temperature for duplexes closed by wobble base pairs with 3' single or double-nucleotide overhangs. Phylogenetic analysis of naturally occurring miRNAs was performed. Selection of the effector miR strand of the mature miRNA duplex appears to be dependent on the orientation of the GU closing base pair rather than the identity of the 3' double-nucleotide overhang. Thermodynamic parameters for the 5' single terminal overhangs adjacent to wobble closing base pairs are also presented.
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