MeRNA

MeRNA is NAR Database No. 838.

Database Description

MeRNA (Metals in RNA) is a comprehensive compilation of all metal binding sites identified in RNA three-dimensional structures available from the Protein Data Bank (PDB) and Nucleic Acid Database. Currently, our database contains information relating to binding of 9764 metal ions corresponding to 23 distinct elements; in 256 RNA structures with coordinates released before July 1, 2005. MeRNA includes eight manually identified metal-ion binding motifs, which are described in the literature.  MeRNA is searchable by PDB identifier, metal ion, method of structure determination, resolution and R-values for X-ray structure, and distance from metal to any RNA atom or to water.  New structures with their respective binding motifs will be added to the database as they become available. The MeRNA database is accessible at http://merna.lbl.gov.

References

1. Stefan LR, Zhang R, Levitan AG, Hendrix DK, Brenner SE, Holbrook SR. (2006) MeRNA: a database of metal ion binding sites in RNA structures. Nucleic Acids Res. 34: in press.

Authors

Stefan L.R.¹, Zhang R.¹, Levitan A.G.¹, Hendrix D.K.^1,2, Brenner S.E.^1,2 and Holbrook S.R.¹

¹Department of Structural Biology, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, MS 064-0121, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
²Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California at Berkeley, 111 Koshland Hall #3102, Berkeley, CA 94720-3102, USA

External Links

• MeRNA homepage
• MeRNA abstract in the NAR 2006 Database Issue

Contact Email

• SRHolbrook@lbl.gov

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