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Direct-Coupling Analysis of nucleotide coevolution facilitates RNA secondary and tertiary structure prediction.


ABSTRACT: Despite the biological importance of non-coding RNA, their structural characterization remains challenging. Making use of the rapidly growing sequence databases, we analyze nucleotide coevolution across homologous sequences via Direct-Coupling Analysis to detect nucleotide-nucleotide contacts. For a representative set of riboswitches, we show that the results of Direct-Coupling Analysis in combination with a generalized Nussinov algorithm systematically improve the results of RNA secondary structure prediction beyond traditional covariance approaches based on mutual information. Even more importantly, we show that the results of Direct-Coupling Analysis are enriched in tertiary structure contacts. By integrating these predictions into molecular modeling tools, systematically improved tertiary structure predictions can be obtained, as compared to using secondary structure information alone.

SUBMITTER: De Leonardis E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4666395 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Direct-Coupling Analysis of nucleotide coevolution facilitates RNA secondary and tertiary structure prediction.

De Leonardis Eleonora E   Lutz Benjamin B   Ratz Sebastian S   Cocco Simona S   Monasson Rémi R   Schug Alexander A   Weigt Martin M  

Nucleic acids research 20150929 21


Despite the biological importance of non-coding RNA, their structural characterization remains challenging. Making use of the rapidly growing sequence databases, we analyze nucleotide coevolution across homologous sequences via Direct-Coupling Analysis to detect nucleotide-nucleotide contacts. For a representative set of riboswitches, we show that the results of Direct-Coupling Analysis in combination with a generalized Nussinov algorithm systematically improve the results of RNA secondary struc  ...[more]

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