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Full design automation of multi-state RNA devices to program gene expression using energy-based optimization.

ABSTRACT: Small RNAs (sRNAs) can operate as regulatory agents to control protein expression by interaction with the 5' untranslated region of the mRNA. We have developed a physicochemical framework, relying on base pair interaction energies, to design multi-state sRNA devices by solving an optimization problem with an objective function accounting for the stability of the transition and final intermolecular states. Contrary to the analysis of the reaction kinetics of an ensemble of sRNAs, we solve the inverse problem of finding sequences satisfying targeted reactions. We show here that our objective function correlates well with measured riboregulatory activity of a set of mutants. This has enabled the application of the methodology for an extended design of RNA devices with specified behavior, assuming different molecular interaction models based on Watson-Crick interaction. We designed several YES, NOT, AND, and OR logic gates, including the design of combinatorial riboregulators. In sum, our de novo approach provides a new paradigm in synthetic biology to design molecular interaction mechanisms facilitating future high-throughput functional sRNA design.

SUBMITTER: Rodrigo G

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3731219 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Full design automation of multi-state RNA devices to program gene expression using energy-based optimization.

Rodrigo Guillermo G Landrain Thomas E TE Majer Eszter E Daròs José-Antonio JA Jaramillo Alfonso A

PLoS computational biology 20130801 8

Small RNAs (sRNAs) can operate as regulatory agents to control protein expression by interaction with the 5' untranslated region of the mRNA. We have developed a physicochemical framework, relying on base pair interaction energies, to design multi-state sRNA devices by solving an optimization problem with an objective function accounting for the stability of the transition and final intermolecular states. Contrary to the analysis of the reaction kinetics of an ensemble of sRNAs, we solve the inv ...[more]

PMID: 23935479

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Project description:BackgroundRNAs are attractive molecules as the biological parts for synthetic biology. In particular, the ability of conformational changes, which can be encoded in designer RNAs, enables us to create multistable molecular switches that function in biological circuits. Although various algorithms for designing such RNA switches have been proposed, the previous algorithms optimize the RNA sequences against the weighted sum of objective functions, where empirical weights among objective functions are used. In addition, an RNA design algorithm for multiple pseudoknot targets is currently not available.ResultsWe developed a novel computational tool for automatically designing RNA sequences which fold into multiple target secondary structures. Our algorithm designs RNA sequences based on multi-objective genetic algorithm, by which we can explore the RNA sequences having good objective function values without empirical weight parameters among the objective functions. Our algorithm has great flexibility by virtue of this weight-free nature. We benchmarked our multi-target RNA design algorithm with the datasets of two, three, and four target structures and found that our algorithm shows better or comparable design performances compared with the previous algorithms, RNAdesign and Frnakenstein. In addition to the benchmarks with pseudoknot-free datasets, we benchmarked MODENA with two-target pseudoknot datasets and found that MODENA can design the RNAs which have the target pseudoknotted secondary structures whose free energies are close to the lowest free energy. Moreover, we applied our algorithm to a ribozyme-based ON-switch which takes a ribozyme-inactive secondary structure when the theophylline aptamer structure is assumed.ConclusionsCurrently, MODENA is the only RNA design software which can be applied to multiple pseudoknot targets. Successful design results for the multiple targets and an RNA device indicate usefulness of our multi-objective RNA design algorithm.

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Full design automation of multi-state RNA devices to program gene expression using energy-based optimization.

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Full design automation of multi-state RNA devices to program gene expression using energy-based optimization.

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