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Prediction of folding nuclei in tRNA molecules. / Pereyaslavets, L. B.; Baranov, M. V.; Leonova, E. I.; Galzitskaya, O. V.
In: Biochemistry (Moscow), Vol. 76, No. 2, 01.02.2011, p. 236-244.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - Prediction of folding nuclei in tRNA molecules
AU - Pereyaslavets, L. B.
AU - Baranov, M. V.
AU - Leonova, E. I.
AU - Galzitskaya, O. V.
PY - 2011/2/1
Y1 - 2011/2/1
N2 - Prediction of folding nuclei in RNA molecules allows one to look in a new way at the problem of possible RNA base sequence folding and at problems associated with incorrect RNA folding, as well as at RNA structure stability. We have chosen a model and energy parameters for description of RNA structure. The algorithm for studying processes including protein folding/unfolding was successfully applied to calculations on tRNA. Four tRNA molecules were considered whose structures were obtained in the free state (tRNA Phe, tRNA Asp, tRNA fMet, and tRNA Lys). The calculated Φ-values for tRNA molecules correlate with experimental data showing that nucleotide residues in the D and T hairpin regions are involved in tRNA structure last, or more exactly, they are not included in the tRNA folding nucleus. High Φ-values in the anticodon hairpin region show that the nucleus of tRNA folding is localized just in that place.
AB - Prediction of folding nuclei in RNA molecules allows one to look in a new way at the problem of possible RNA base sequence folding and at problems associated with incorrect RNA folding, as well as at RNA structure stability. We have chosen a model and energy parameters for description of RNA structure. The algorithm for studying processes including protein folding/unfolding was successfully applied to calculations on tRNA. Four tRNA molecules were considered whose structures were obtained in the free state (tRNA Phe, tRNA Asp, tRNA fMet, and tRNA Lys). The calculated Φ-values for tRNA molecules correlate with experimental data showing that nucleotide residues in the D and T hairpin regions are involved in tRNA structure last, or more exactly, they are not included in the tRNA folding nucleus. High Φ-values in the anticodon hairpin region show that the nucleus of tRNA folding is localized just in that place.
KW - coarse-grained structural model
KW - Dynamic programming
KW - folding nucleus
KW - hydrogen bond
KW - stacking and hydrophobic interactions
KW - tRNA folding
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79953850355&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1134/S0006297911020106
DO - 10.1134/S0006297911020106
M3 - Article
C2 - 21568857
AN - SCOPUS:79953850355
VL - 76
SP - 236
EP - 244
JO - Biochemistry (Moscow)
JF - Biochemistry (Moscow)
SN - 0006-2979
IS - 2
ER -
ID: 45420199