[HTML][HTML] Toward a mechanistic understanding of DNA methylation readout by transcription factors

JF Kribelbauer, XJ Lu, R Rohs, RS Mann… - Journal of molecular …, 2020 - Elsevier
Epigenetic DNA modification impacts gene expression, but the underlying molecular
mechanisms are only partly understood. Adding a methyl group to a cytosine base locally …

When will RNA get its AlphaFold moment?

B Schneider, BA Sweeney, A Bateman… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The protein structure prediction problem has been solved for many types of proteins by
AlphaFold. Recently, there has been considerable excitement to build off the success of …

RNA secondary structure prediction using an ensemble of two-dimensional deep neural networks and transfer learning

J Singh, J Hanson, K Paliwal, Y Zhou - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
The majority of our human genome transcribes into noncoding RNAs with unknown
structures and functions. Obtaining functional clues for noncoding RNAs requires accurate …

RIC-seq for global in situ profiling of RNA–RNA spatial interactions

Z Cai, C Cao, L Ji, R Ye, D Wang, C Xia, S Wang, Z Du… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Highly structured RNA molecules usually interact with each other, and associate with
various RNA-binding proteins, to regulate critical biological processes. However, RNA …

Web 3DNA 2.0 for the analysis, visualization, and modeling of 3D nucleic acid structures

S Li, WK Olson, XJ Lu - Nucleic acids research, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Web 3DNA (w3DNA) 2.0 is a significantly enhanced version of the widely used
w3DNA server for the analysis, visualization, and modeling of 3D nucleic-acid-containing …

Reversible RNA phosphorylation stabilizes tRNA for cellular thermotolerance

T Ohira, K Minowa, K Sugiyama, S Yamashita… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Post-transcriptional modifications have critical roles in tRNA stability and function,,–. In
thermophiles, tRNAs are heavily modified to maintain their thermal stability under extreme …

Integrating end-to-end learning with deep geometrical potentials for ab initio RNA structure prediction

Y Li, C Zhang, C Feng, R Pearce… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
RNAs are fundamental in living cells and perform critical functions determined by their
tertiary architectures. However, accurate modeling of 3D RNA structure remains a …

RNA force field with accuracy comparable to state-of-the-art protein force fields

D Tan, S Piana, RM Dirks… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation has become a powerful tool for characterizing at an
atomic level of detail the conformational changes undergone by proteins. The application of …

Structures of small molecules bound to RNA repeat expansions that cause Huntington's disease-like 2 and myotonic dystrophy type 1

JL Chen, A Taghavi, AJ Frank, MA Fountain… - Bioorganic & medicinal …, 2024 - Elsevier
Trinucleotide repeat expansions fold into long, stable hairpins and cause a variety of
incurable RNA gain-of-function diseases such as Huntington's disease, the myotonic …

Multiple sequence alignment-based RNA language model and its application to structural inference

Y Zhang, M Lang, J Jiang, Z Gao, F Xu… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Compared with proteins, DNA and RNA are more difficult languages to interpret because
four-letter coded DNA/RNA sequences have less information content than 20-letter coded …