Sanbonmatsu Karissa Y
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA.
Biochim Biophys Acta. 2016 Jan;1859(1):41-5. doi: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2015.09.011. Epub 2015 Oct 30.
While long non-coding RNAs play key roles in disease and development, few structural studies have been performed to date for this emerging class of RNAs. Previous structural studies are reviewed, and a pipeline is presented to determine secondary structures of long non-coding RNAs. Similar to riboswitches, experimentally determined secondary structures of long non-coding RNAs for one species, may be used to improve sequence/structure alignments for other species. As riboswitches have been classified according to their secondary structure, a similar scheme could be used to classify long non-coding RNAs. This article is part of a Special Issue titled: Clues to long noncoding RNA taxonomy1, edited by Dr. Tetsuro Hirose and Dr. Shinichi Nakagawa.
虽然长链非编码RNA在疾病和发育过程中发挥着关键作用,但迄今为止针对这类新兴RNA的结构研究却很少。本文回顾了以往的结构研究,并提出了一种确定长链非编码RNA二级结构的流程。与核糖开关类似,某一物种的长链非编码RNA通过实验确定的二级结构,可用于改进其他物种的序列/结构比对。由于核糖开关已根据其二级结构进行了分类,因此类似的方案可用于对长链非编码RNA进行分类。本文是由广濑哲郎博士和中川真一博士编辑的名为《长链非编码RNA分类线索》特刊的一部分。