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Nucleic Acids Mol Biol. 2012;27:185-212. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-25740-7_10. Epub 2012 Apr 07.

Statistical mechanical modeling of RNA folding: from free energy landscape to tertiary structural prediction.

Nucleic acids and molecular biology

Song Cao, Shi-Jie Chen

Affiliations

  1. Department of Physics and Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211.

PMID: 27293312 PMCID: PMC4902161 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-25740-7_10

Abstract

In spite of the success of computational methods for predicting RNA secondary structure, the problem of predicting RNA tertiary structure folding remains. Low-resolution structural models show promise as they allow for rigorous statistical mechanical computation for the conformational entropies, free energies, and the coarse-grained structures of tertiary folds. Molecular dynamics refinement of coarse-grained structures leads to all-atom 3D structures. Modeling based on statistical mechanics principles also has the unique advantage of predicting the full free energy landscape, including local minima and the global free energy minimum. The energy landscapes combined with the 3D structures form the basis for quantitative predictions of RNA functions. In this chapter, we present an overview of statistical mechanical models for RNA folding and then focus on a recently developed RNA statistical mechanical model -- the

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