Predicting common foldings of homologous RNAs
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- DOI: 10.1080/07391102.1991.10507863
Predicting common foldings of homologous RNAs
Abstract
A new approach is proposed for determining common RNA secondary structures within a set of homologous RNAs. The approach is a combination of phylogenetic and thermodynamic methods which is based on the prediction of optimal and suboptimal secondary structures, topological similarity searches and phylogenetic comparative analysis. The optimal and suboptimal RNA secondary structures are predicted by energy minimization. Structural comparison of the predicted RNA secondary structures is used to find conserved structures that are topologically similar in all these homologous RNAs. The validity of the conserved structural elements found is then checked by phylogenetic comparison of the sequences. This procedure is used to predict common structures of ribonuclease P (RNAase P) RNAs.
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