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Tipo: Artigo de Periódico
Título: An asymmetric mesoscopic model for single bulges in RNA
Autor(es): Erik de Oliveira Martins
Gerald Weber
Resumen: Simple one-dimensional DNA or RNA mesoscopic models are of interest for their computational efficiency while retaining the key elements of the molecular interactions. However, they only deal with perfectly formed DNA or RNA double helices and consider the intra-strand interactions to be the same on both strands. This makes it difficult to describe highly asymmetric structures such as bulges and loops and, for instance, prevents the application of mesoscopic models to determine RNA secondary structures. Here we derived the conditions for the Peyrard-Bishop mesoscopic model to overcome these limitations and applied it to the calculation of single bulges, the smallest and simplest of these asymmetric structures. We found that these theoretical conditions can indeed be applied to any situation where stacking asymmetry needs to be considered. The full set of parameters for group I RNA bulges was determined from experimental melting temperatures using an optimization procedure, and we also calculated average opening profiles for several RNA sequences. We found that guanosine bulges show the strongest perturbation on their neighboring base pairs, considerably reducing the on-site interactions of their neighboring base pairs.
Asunto: Ácido ribonucleico
Idioma: eng
País: Brasil
Editor: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Sigla da Institución: UFMG
Departamento: ICX - DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA
Tipo de acceso: Acesso Restrito
Identificador DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5006948
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/64979
Fecha del documento: 2017
metadata.dc.url.externa: https://pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/article/147/15/155102/196704/An-asymmetric-mesoscopic-model-for-single-bulges
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: The Journal of Chemical Physics
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