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Nucleic Acids Research, 1985, Vol. 13, No. 23 8645-8660
© 1985

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Comparative sequence analysis as a tool for studying the secondary structure of mRNAs

Michelle F. Browner and Charles B. Lawrence

Department of Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA

Received June 6, 1985. Accepted October 29, 1985.

Analysis of phylogenetically conserved secondary structure has been important in the development of models for the secondary structure of structural RNAs. In this paper, we apply this type of analysis to several families of informational RNAs to evaluate its usefulness in developing secondary structure models for mRNAs and mRNA precursors. We observed many conserved helices in all mRNA groups analyzed. Three criteria were used to identify potential helices which were not conserved solely because of coding sequence constraints, and may therefore be important for the structure and function of the RNA. These results suggest that this approach will be useful in deriving secondary structure models for informational RNAs when used in conjunction with other complementary techniques, and in designing experiments to determine the functional significance of conserved base pairing interactions.


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