On the predictibility of A-minor motifs from their local contexts

Coline Gianfrotta, Vladimir Reinharz, Olivier Lespinet, Dominique Barth, Alain Denise

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Abstract

This study investigates the importance of the structural context in the formation of a type I/II A-minor motif. This very frequent structural motif has been shown to be important in the spatial folding of RNA molecules. We developed an automated method to classify A-minor motif occurrences according to their 3D context similarities, and we used a graph approach to represent both the structural A-minor motif occurrences and their classes at different scales. This approach leads us to uncover new subclasses of A-minor motif occurrences according to their local 3D similarities. The majority of classes are composed of homologous occurrences, but some of them are composed of non-homologous occurrences. The different classifications we obtain allow us to better understand the importance of the context in the formation of A-minor motifs. In a second step, we investigate how much knowledge of the context around an A-minor motif can help to infer its presence (and position). More specifically, we want to determine what kind of information, contained in the structural context, can be useful to characterize and predict A-minor motifs. We show that, for some A-minor motifs, the topology combined with a sequence signal is sufficient to predict the presence and the position of an A-minor motif occurrence. In most other cases, these signals are not sufficient for predicting the A-minor motif, however we show that they are good signals for this purpose. All the classification and prediction pipelines rely on automated processes, for which we describe the underlying algorithms and parameters.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1208-1227
Number of pages20
JournalRNA Biology
Volume19
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2022
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • A-minor motif
  • RNA 3D structures
  • RNA folding
  • clustering
  • graph algorithms

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Molecular Biology
  • Cell Biology

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