Turner 1999The derivation of terminal mismatch parameters was described 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 optical melting experiments for terminal mismatches were reported in:
1. Hickey,
D.R. and Turner, D.H. (1985) Solvent effects on the stability of A7U7p. Biochemistry, 24, 2086-2094.
2. 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.
3. Freier, S.M.,
Sugimoto, N., Sinclair, A., Alkema, D., Neilson, T., Kierzek, R., Caruthers, M.H. and Turner, D.H. (1986)
Stability of XGCGCp, GCGCYp,
and XGCGCYp helixes: an empirical estimate of the energetics of hydrogen bonds in nucleic acids. Biochemistry, 25, 3214-3219.
4. Sugimoto, N., Kierzek,
R. and Turner, D.H. (1987) Sequence dependence for the energetics of dangling ends and terminal base pairs in ribonucleic acid. Biochemistry, 26, 4554-4558.
5. Serra, M.J., Axenson,
T.J. and Turner, D.H. (1994) A model for the
stabilities of RNA hairpins based on a study of the sequence dependence of
stability for hairpins of six nucleotides. Biochemistry, 33, 14289-14296.
6. Dale, T., Smith, R. and Serra, M. (2000)
A test of the model to predict unusually stable RNA hairpin loop stability. RNA, 6, 608-615.