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Tutorial 11 RNA Structure Prediction

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Tutorial 11

RNA Structure Prediction

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RNA Structure Prediction

• Introduction – RNA secondary structure• RNAfold – RNA secondary structure

prediction• TargetScan – microRNA prediction

Cool story of the day:How viruses use miRNAs to attack humans

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About RNA…

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RNA secondary structure

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3D perspective

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RNA secondary structure types

stem

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:::::: free extremes((())) Stem<<<>>> Internal Stem______ Loop,,,,,, Internal loop

Structure representations

Directionality

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RNA secondary structure prediction

GGGCUAUUAGCUCAGUUGGUUAGAGCGCACCCCUGAUAAGGGUGAGGUCGCUGAUUCGAAUUCAGCAUAGCCCA

Base pair probability

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RNA structure prediction by Vienna RNA package

RNAfold server minimum free energy structures and base pair probabilities from single RNA or DNA sequences.

RNAalifold server consensus secondary structures from an alignment of several related RNA or DNA sequences. You need to upload an alignment.

RNAinverse server design RNA sequences for any desired target secondary structure.

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http://rna.tbi.univie.ac.at/

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RNAfold

• Gives best stabilized structure (structure with minimal free energy (MFE))

• Uses a dynamic programming algorithm that exploits base pairing and thermodynamic probabilities in order to predict the most likely structures of an RNA molecule.

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RNAfold - input

RNA sequence

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Minimal free energy structure

Frequency of the structure

RNAfold - output

Structure prediction

Best “average” structure

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Graphic representation

MFE structure

An average, may not exist in the ensemble

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RNAalifoldStructure prediction based on alignments

Alignment

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RNAalifold - output

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Understanding the color scheme

http://www.almob.org/content/pdf/1748-7188-6-26.pdf

C-GU-A

C-GG-CU-AA-U

Lighter color

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RNAinverse

• Find sequences that match a structure.

• Binding in RNA is based a lot on the structure,

and not only the sequence.

• Helps identify a function.

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RNAinverse - input

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RNAinverse - output

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MicroRNA

• May reside in host genes or in intragenic region.

• The RNA structure of the hairpins in a pri-miRNA is recognized by the proteins.

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• Search for predicted microRNA targets in mammals (/worm/fly) 3’ UTRs.

• Find conserved 8mer and 7mer sites that match the seed region of each miRNA.

• Predictions are ranked based on the predicted efficacy of targeting as calculated using the context+ scores of the sites.

http://www.targetscan.org/

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More negative scores represent a more favorable site

The stability of of a miRNA-target duplex

A score reflecting the probability that a site is conserved due to selective maintenance of miRNA targeting rather than by chance or any other reason.

Sum of phylogenetic branch lengths between species that contain a site

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Mir 31 - broadly conserved* microRNA

* conserved across most vertebrates, usually to zebrafish

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Mir 136 - conserved* microRNA

* conserved across most mammals, but usually not beyond placental mammals

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Cool Story of the day

How viruses use miRNAs to attack humans?

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“…We developed an algorithm for the prediction of miRNA targets and applied it to human cytomegalovirus miRNAs…”

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Viruses

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• Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is known to have evolved effective immune evasion strategies.

• RepTar has its basis in the observation that miRNA binding sites can repeat several times in the target’s 3 UTR (1). It therefore searches for repetitive ′elements in each 3 UTR sequence and evaluates ′these elements as potential miRNA binding sites.

• This algorithm is independent of evolutionary conservation of the binding sites.

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MICB, an immunorelated gene, was among the highest ranking predicted targets and the top prediction for hcmv-miR-UL112.

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Natural Killer (NK) cells• NK cells are cytotoxic lymphocyte that kill virus-infected cells

and tumor cells.• In order to function they should be activated through

receptors. One of these is NKG2D.• MICB is a stress-induced ligand of NK cells through the NKG2D

receptor).

Cerwenka et al. Nature Reviews Immunology 2001

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“…We show that hcmv-miR-UL112 specifically down-regulates MICB expression during viral infection, leading to decreased binding of NKG2D and reduced killing by NK cells…”

“Our results demonstrate a novel miRNA-based evasion strategy used by HCMV, in which a viral miRNA directly down-regulates a host immune defense gene.