The GU nearest neighbor parameters were reported in:
Mathews, D.H., Sabina, J., Zuker, M. and Turner, D.H. (1999) Expanded sequence dependence of thermodynamic parameters provides improved prediction of RNA secondary structure. J. Mol. Biol., 288, 911-940.
The experimental data for the fit of the parameters were taken from:
1. Freier, S.M., Kierzek, R.,
Caruthers, M.H., Neilson, T. and Turner, D.H. (1986) Free energy contributions
of G.U and other terminal mismatches to helix stability. Biochemistry, 25, 3209-3223.
2. Sugimoto, N., Kierzek,
R., Freier, S.M. and Turner, D.H. (1986) Energetics of internal GU mismatches in ribooligonucleotide
helixes. Biochemistry, 25, 5755-5759.
3. He, L., Kierzek,
R., SantaLucia, J., Jr., Walter, A.E. and Turner,
D.H. (1991) Nearest-neighbor parameters for G.U mismatches. Biochemistry, 30, 11124-11132.
4. Wu, M., McDowell, J.A. and Turner, D.H.
(1995) A periodic table of symmetric tandem mismatches in RNA. Biochemistry, 34, 3204-3211.
5. McDowell, J.A. and Turner, D.H. (1996)
Investigation of the structural basis for thermodynamic stabilities of tandem
GU mismatches: Solution structure of (rGAGGUCUC)2 by two-dimensional NMR and simulated
annealing. Biochemistry, 35, 14077-14089.
6. Xia, T., McDowell, J.A. and Turner, D.H.
(1997) Thermodynamics of nonsymmetric tandem
mismatches adjacent to G.C base pairs in RNA. Biochemistry, 36,
12486-12487.