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Genetic Signals and Nucleotide Sequences in Messenger RNA

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Biological Regulation and Development

Part of the book series: Biological Regulation and Development ((BRD,volume 1))

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Today every schoolchild learns that DNA makes RNA and RNA makes protein. He is further taught that a messenger RNA molecule is like a string of beads consisting of A, C, G, and U residues. The genetic information is read out (like any written code) in a linear fashion, here in groups of three. Such imagery immediately engenders the notion that RNA functions purely as a one-dimensional structure and that all of its secrets are locked in its sequence of bases. Of course, the latter concept is, in essence, true. Just as the amino acid sequence of a polypeptide chain ultimately determines the three-dimensional folding of a protein, so does the sequence of nucleotides in an RNA molecule dictate its potential for forming internal Watson—Crick base pairs (RNA secondary structure) which may further interact specifically with each other (RNA tertiary structure). Indeed, it has long been accepted that tRNA molecules utilize both base pairing and intramolecular bonds of other types to assume a quite defined shape which allows their specific recognition by ribosomes, aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and so on. However, it is a more recent realization that messenger RNAs and ribosomal RNAs can form thermodynamically stable secondary and tertiary structures as well.

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Steitz, J.A. (1979). Genetic Signals and Nucleotide Sequences in Messenger RNA. In: Goldberger, R.F. (eds) Biological Regulation and Development. Biological Regulation and Development, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3417-0_9

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