RNAsmc: A integrated tool for comparing RNA secondary structure and evaluating allosteric effects.

Comput Struct Biotechnol J

National Engineering Research Center of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325027, China.

Published: January 2023

RNA structure plays a crucial role in gene regulation, in RNA stability and the essential biological processes. RNA secondary structure (RSS) motifs are the basic building blocks for investigating the biological mechanisms of structure. Here, we present a strategy for structural motif-based dynamic alignment, namely, RNA secondary-structural motif-comparing (RNAsmc), to identify structural motifs and quantitatively evaluate their underlying molecular functions. RNAsmc also has strong robustness to sequence length, folding protocol and RNA structural profile by chemical probing. Notably, it is also applicable to quantify structural variation in special RNA editing events (SNVs or SNPs, fragment insertion or deletion, etc.). The findings indicate that RNAsmc can uncover the heterogeneity of RNA secondary structure and score for similarities among components, which provides an impetus to cluster RNA families and evaluate allosteric effects. We find that RNAsmc exhibits remarkable detection efficiency for experimentally-derived RiboSNitches. Finally, the pipeline was assembled into an R software package to serve as an automated toolkit to explore, align, and cluster RSS. It is freely available for download at https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=RNAsmc.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9876829PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2023.01.007DOI Listing

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