Hofacker I L, Fekete M, Flamm C, Huynen M A, Rauscher S, Stolorz P E, Stadler P F
Institut für Theoretische Chemie, Universität Wien, Wien, Austria, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany, Max Delbrück Center, Berlin, Germany.
Nucleic Acids Res. 1998 Aug 15;26(16):3825-36. doi: 10.1093/nar/26.16.3825.
We propose a new method for detecting conserved RNA secondary structures in a family of related RNA sequences. Our method is based on a combination of thermodynamic structure prediction and phylogenetic comparison. In contrast to purely phylogenetic methods, our algorithm can be used for small data sets of approximately 10 sequences, efficiently exploiting the information contained in the sequence variability. The procedure constructs a prediction only for those parts of sequences that are consistent with a single conserved structure. Our implementation produces reasonable consensus structures without user interference. As an example we have analysed the complete HIV-1 and hepatitis C virus (HCV) genomes as well as the small segment of hantavirus. Our method confirms the known structures in HIV-1 and predicts previously unknown conserved RNA secondary structures in HCV.
我们提出了一种在一族相关RNA序列中检测保守RNA二级结构的新方法。我们的方法基于热力学结构预测和系统发育比较的结合。与纯系统发育方法不同,我们的算法可用于大约10个序列的小数据集,有效利用序列变异性中包含的信息。该程序仅对与单个保守结构一致的序列部分构建预测。我们的实现无需用户干预即可生成合理的共有结构。作为一个例子,我们分析了完整的HIV-1和丙型肝炎病毒(HCV)基因组以及汉坦病毒的小片段。我们的方法证实了HIV-1中已知的结构,并预测了HCV中以前未知的保守RNA二级结构。