Characterization of RNA hairpin loop stability

Characterization of RNA hairpin loop stability.

Fifteen RNA hairpins that share the same stem sequence and have homopolymer loops of A, C and U residues which vary in length from three to nine nucleotides were synthesized and their thermal stabilities determined. Tm varies as a function of loop size but is almost independent of loop composition. Loops of four or five nucleotides are found to be the most stable loop size. This is consistent w...

RNA PSEUDOKNOT PREDICTION IN ENERGY BASED MODELS 3 ) Hairpin loop Hairpin loop

A test of the model to predict unusually stable RNA hairpin loop stability.

To investigate the accuracy of a model [Giese et al., 1998, Biochemistry37:1094-1100 and Mathews et al., 1999, JMol Biol 288:911-940] that predicts the stability of RNA hairpin loops, optical melting studies were conducted on sets of hairpins previously determined to have unusually stable thermodynamic parameters. Included were the tetraloops GNRA and UNCG (where N is any nucleotide and R is a ...

RNA hairpin-folding kinetics.

Based on the complete ensemble of hairpin conformations, a statistical mechanical model that combines the eigenvalue solutions of the rate matrix and the free-energy landscapes has been able to predict the temperature-dependent folding rate, kinetic intermediates, and folding pathways for hairpin-forming RNA sequences. At temperatures higher than a "glass transition" temperature, T(g), the eige...

Influence of a Hairpin Loop on the Thermodynamic Stability of a DNA Oligomer

DSC was used to evaluate the mechanism of the thermally induced unfolding of the single-stranded hairpin HP = 5'-CGGAATTCCGTCTCCGGAATTCCG-3' and its core duplex D (5'-CGGAATTCCG-3')(2). The DSC melting experiments performed at several salt concentrations were successfully described for HP and D in terms of a three-state transition model HP↔I (intermediate state) ↔ S (unfolded single-stranded st...