Experimental determination of the secondary structure of RNA molecules has usually been carried out on a case-by-case basis. Now, however, a deep-sequencing approach has been used to profile the secondary structure of 3,000 distinct messenger RNA transcripts from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The results provide interesting hints about the role of secondary structure in protein translation, and set the stage for the examination of how such structures can change in response to environmental conditions.
- Michael Kertesz
- Yue Wan
- Eran Segal