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SUBMITTER: Liu B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3032278 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Liu Biao B Diamond Joshua M JM Mathews David H DH Turner Douglas H DH
Biochemistry 20110114 5
Three-way multibranch loops (junctions) are common in RNA secondary structures. Computer algorithms such as RNAstructure and MFOLD do not consider the identity of unpaired nucleotides in multibranch loops when predicting secondary structure. There is limited experimental data, however, to parametrize this aspect of these algorithms. In this study, UV optical melting and a fluorescence competition assay are used to measure stabilities of multibranch loops containing up to five unpaired adenosines ...[more]