Tetraloop

Tetraloops are a type of four-base hairpin loop motifs in RNA secondary structure that cap many double helices.

The published ones include ANYA,[3][4]

[8] Three types of tetraloops are common in ribosomal RNA: GNRA, UNCG and CUUG, in which the N could be either uracil, adenine, cytosine, or guanine, and the R is either guanine or adenine.

These three sequences form stable and conserved tetraloops that play an important role in structural stability and biological function of 16S rRNA.

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Structure of a GNRA tetraloop from a group I self-splicing intron . [ 1 ]