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arXiv 0908.2025q-bio.BMq-bio.GNq-bio.QM
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联系等待时间度量和RNA折叠率

A contact-waiting-time metric and RNA folding rates

Asamoah Nkwanta, Wilfred Ndifon

摘要:

用于间接预测RNA序列折叠速率的方法是人们感兴趣的。在这封信中,我们介绍了一个简单的度量的RNA结构的复杂性,这占了不同的能量贡献的RNA碱基接触对RNA结构的形成。我们应用度量的RNA序列,其折叠速率是以前确定的实验。我们发现该度量与这些RNA序列的经数学变换的折叠速率具有良好的相关性(相关系数:-0.95,p << 0.01)。这表明该度量可用于预测RNA折叠速率。我们使用该度量来预测细菌和真核生物II组内含子的折叠速率。该指标的未来应用(例如,来预测结构RNA)可以证明是富有成效的。

英文摘要:

Metrics for indirectly predicting the folding rates of RNA sequences are of interest. In this letter, we introduce a simple metric of RNA structural complexity, which accounts for differences in the energetic contributions of RNA base contacts toward RNA structure formation. We apply the metric to RNA sequences whose folding rates were previously determined experimentally. We find that the metric has good correlation (correlation coefficient: -0.95, p << 0.01) with the logarithmically transformed folding rates of those RNA sequences. This suggests that the metric can be useful for predicting RNA folding rates. We use the metric to predict the folding rates of bacterial and eukaryotic group II introns. Future applications of the metric (e.g., to predict structural RNAs) could prove fruitful.

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