Illustration from Scientific Research

In silico design of RNA origami nanotubes. The nanotube-forming RNA origami tiles assemble co-transcriptionally from a single RNA strand, forming 3 duplexes with α = 120° intrinsic curvature. The 180° external kissing loops (KLs) for nanotube assembly are paired corner-to-corner (a–a′ and b–b′).

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