Pseudoknots in RNA folding landscapes.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

The function of an RNA molecule is not only linked to its native structure, which is usually taken to be the ground state of its folding landscape, but also in many cases crucially depends on the details of the folding pathways such as stable folding intermediates or the timing of the folding process itself. To model and understand these processes, it is necessary to go beyond ground state structures. The study of rugged RNA folding landscapes holds the key to answer these questions. Efficient coarse-graining methods are required to reduce the intractably vast energy landscapes into condensed representations such as barrier trees or basin hopping graphs : BHG) that convey an approximate but comprehensive picture of the folding kinetics. So far, exact and heuristic coarse

SUBMITTER: Kucharik M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4708108 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature