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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
卷 34, 期 9, 页码 2634-2652出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl346
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- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES [R01GM063732] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01 GM063732-04, R01 GM063732-03, R01 GM063732, GM063732] Funding Source: Medline
Based on the experimentally determined atomic coordinates for RNA helices and the self-avoiding walks of the P (phosphate) and C-4 (carbon) atoms in the diamond lattice for the polynucleotide loop conformations, we derive a set of conformational entropy parameters for RNA pseudoknots. Based on the entropy parameters, we develop a folding thermodynamics model that enables us to compute the sequence-specific RNA pseudoknot folding free energy landscape and thermodynamics. The model is validated through extensive experimental tests both for the native structures and for the folding thermodynamics. The model predicts strong sequence-dependent helix-loop competitions in the pseudoknot stability and the resultant conformational switches between different hairpin and pseudoknot structures. For instance, for the pseudoknot domain of human telomerase RNA, a native-like and a misfolded hairpin intermediates are found to coexist on the (equilibrium) folding pathways, and the interplay between the stabilities of these intermediates causes the conformational switch that may underlie a human telomerase disease.
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