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Noncoding RNAs form an indispensible component of the cellular information processing networks, a role that crucially depends on the specificity of their interactions among each other as well as with DNA and protein. Patterns of intramolecular and intermolecular base pairs govern most RNA interactions. Specific base pairs dominate the structure formation of nucleic acids. Only little details distinguish intramolecular secondary structures from those cofolding molecules. RNA-protein interactions, on the other hand, are strongly dependent on the RNA structure as well since the sequence content of helical regions is largely unreadable, so that sequence specificity is mostly restricted to unpaired loop regions. Conservation of both sequence and structure thus this can give indications of the functioning of the diversity of ncRNAs.
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Marz, M., Stadler, P.F. (2011). RNA Interactions. In: Collins, L.J. (eds) RNA Infrastructure and Networks. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 722. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0332-6_2
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