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Assessment of Immunologically Relevant Dynamic Tertiary Structural Features of the HIV-1 V3 Loop Crown R2 Sequence by ab initio Folding
Published on: September 15, 2010
Developing three-dimensional models of putative-folding intermediates of the HDV ribozyme
Cédric Reymond1, Dominique Lévesque, Martin Bisaillon
1RNA Group/Groupe ARN, Département de Biochimie, Faculté de Médecine et des Sciences de la Santé, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec J1H5N4, Canada.
Abstract:
Both the role and the interacting partners of an RNA molecule can change depending on its tertiary structure. Consequently, it is important to be able to accurately predict the complete folding pathway of an RNA molecule. The hepatitis delta virus (HDV) ribozyme is a small catalytic RNA with the greatest number of folding intermediates making it the model of choice with which to address this problem. The tertiary structures of the known putative intermediates along the folding pathway of the HDV ribozyme were predicted using the Macromolecular Conformations Symbolic programming (MC-Sym) software. The structures obtained by this method received physical support from Selective 2'-Hydroxyl Acylation analyzed by Primer Extension (SHAPE). The analysis of these structures elucidated several features of the HDV ribozyme. In addition, this report represents an application for MC-Sym that permits progression one step further toward the computer prediction of an RNA molecule-folding pathway.
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