Danny IncaRNAto
@incarnatolab.bsky.social
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Associate Professor in Molecular Genetics | University of Groningen | Chief R&D Officer @ Serna Bio | #RNA structural ensembles & dynamics | https://www.incaRNAtolab.com | Views are my own
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Check out this new fantastic method from @rivaselenarivas.bsky.social to predict #RNA structure + 3D motifs and pseudoknots guided by covariation
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Integrated prediction of RNA secondary structure jointly with 3D motifs and pseudoknots guided by evolutionary information.
@aakaran31.bsky.social and @rivaselenarivas.bsky.social

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
All-at-once RNA folding with 3D motif prediction framed by evolutionary information - Nature Methods
Structural RNAs exhibit a vast array of recurrent short three-dimensional (3D) elements found in loop regions involving non-Watson–Crick interactions that help arrange canonical double helices into tertiary structures. Here we present CaCoFold-R3D, a probabilistic grammar that predicts these RNA 3D motifs (also termed modules) jointly with RNA secondary structure over a sequence or alignment. CaCoFold-R3D uses evolutionary information present in an RNA alignment to reliably identify canonical helices (including pseudoknots) by covariation. Here we further introduce the R3D grammars, which also exploit helix covariation that constrains the positioning of the mostly noncovarying RNA 3D motifs. Our method runs predictions over an almost-exhaustive list of over 50 known RNA motifs (‘everything’). Motifs can appear in any nonhelical loop region (including three-way, four-way and higher junctions) (‘everywhere’). All structural motifs as well as the canonical helices are arranged into one single structure predicted by one single joint probabilistic grammar (‘all-at-once’). Our results demonstrate that CaCoFold-R3D is a valid alternative for predicting the all-residue interactions present in a RNA 3D structure. CaCoFold-R3D is fast and easily customizable for novel motif discovery and shows promising value both as a strong input for deep learning approaches to all-atom structure prediction as well as toward guiding RNA design as drug targets for therapeutic small molecules.
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Happy #RNA day to all my fellow RNA lovers!
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Thanks Lars! It definitely was :-)
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And a huge thanks to @erc.europa.eu for funding that made all of this possible! (11/n)
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Shoutout to rockstar Ivana Borovská, who led this incredible work, and to our collaborators, particularly @mtwolfinger.bsky.social and Wim Velema! (10/n)
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While our study still presents many limitations, we sincerely hope this will represent a stepping stone in better understanding and characterizing the structural dynamics of cellular RNAs, and their roles in regulating gene expression. (9/n)
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Furthermore, we introduced the DeConStruct framework (github.com/dincarnato/p...), to aid the discovery and prioritization of conserved regulatory RNA structural switches discovered via ensemble deconvolution analysis of chemical probing data. (8/n)
papers/Borovska et al., 2025 at main · dincarnato/papers
Data & pipelines associated with papers from the lab - dincarnato/papers
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For example, the 5′-UTR of the CKS2 RNA populates two conformations, one promoting increased translation of a uORF, and one reducing translation of the main ORF. (7/n)
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Thanks to this method, we observed that regions of human 5′-UTRs populating 2+ alternative conformations, tend to be enriched for upstream start codons (NTG), suggesting that the switch between these conformations might regulate translation of uORFs vs. main ORF. (6/n)
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Next, we sought to explore the transcriptome of human cells. Due to the extreme sequencing depth required for ensemble deconvolution analyses, we developed 5′UTR-MaP, which enables the transcriptome-scale interrogation of 5′-UTRs (and, in general, of 5′-terminal regions). (5/n)
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Interestingly, the well characterized cspA thermometer already populates both ON and OFF conformations at 37°C, and completely shifts to the ON conformation at 10°C, explaining why cspA is among the top-expressed proteins in the E. coli proteome. (4/n)
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Subjecting bacteria to cold shock causes an increase in the number of regions populating 2+ alternative conformations. By combining these results with covariation analysis we identified a number of novel RNA cold thermometers, such as the 5′ UTR of lpxP. (3/n)
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By performing ensemble deconvolution analysis of the E. coli transcriptome, we identified a large number of regions populating 2+ alternative conformations, characterized by features such as high G+C content, low Shannon entropy, high structuredness and conservation, etc. (2/n)
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The IncaRNAto lab is seeking a motivated #PhD candidate, interested in studying #RNA structural ensemble dynamics in living cells. Here's the link to the vacancy: www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor.... Please share!
Vacatures bij de RUG
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#RNA Framework 2.9.3 is out! Lots of improvements! Check it out: github.com/dincarnato/R... & see the CHANGELOG (raw.githubusercontent.com/dincarnato/R...) for the details!
Reposted by Danny IncaRNAto
dczapp.bsky.social
In a preprint published today, we are excited to report the secondary structure of the 1212 nt fission-yeast S. pombe telomerase RNA, TER1, and its roles in the physicofunctional organization of this massive, flexible enzymatic RNP complex.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The 1212 nt fission-yeast S. pombe telomerase RNA (TER1) secondary structure, determined by phylogenetics and bioinformatics
Reposted by Danny IncaRNAto
cryptogenomicon.bsky.social
NIH funding supporting the HMMER and Infernal software projects has been terminated. NIH states that our work, as well as all other federally funded research at Harvard, is of no benefit to the US.
Reposted by Danny IncaRNAto