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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.