Nearest-neighbor dsDNA stability analysis using alchemical free-energy simulations

M Rieger, M Zacharias - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2022 - ACS Publications
… formed in the context of all possible nearest-neighbor base pairs. Current … to empirical
nearest-neighbor effects. Molecular dynamics simulations based on a molecular mechanic force …

Predictions and analyses of RNA nearest neighbor parameters for modified nucleotides

MC Hopfinger, CC Kirkpatrick… - … Acids Research, 2020 - academic.oup.com
… Here, we present a combined molecular dynamics/quantum … Crick base pairs. NN predictions
for Watson-Crick and modified … minimize the effects of terminal base pair dynamics and MD …

Nearest-neighbor parameters for predicting DNA duplex stability in diverse molecular crowding conditions

S Ghosh, S Takahashi, T Ohyama… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
… possible Watson–Crick NN base pairs and two helix initiation … To understand the quantitative
impact of molecular crowding on … Molecular dynamic simulations have also shown that the …

Base-pairing and base-stacking contributions to double-stranded DNA formation

M Zacharias - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2020 - ACS Publications
… of effective base pairing and (nearest neighbor) base-pairMolecular dynamics (MD)
simulations based on a molecular … the base-pair step contributions and do not consider effects due …

Improved nearest-neighbor parameters for the stability of RNA/DNA hybrids under a physiological condition

D Banerjee, H Tateishi-Karimata… - … Acids Research, 2020 - academic.oup.com
base pairing can be determined by the summation of the free energy changes due to all
adjacent NN base pair … Therefore, problems arising in the stability prediction due to the effect of …

Thermodynamics and kinetics of an AU RNA base pair under force studied by molecular dynamics simulations

T Yu, T Liu, Y Wang, S Zhang, W Zhang - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
… opening-closing transition were obtained and the results at low forces were in good agreement
with the nearest-neighbor model. The temperature and force dependence of the opening …

Free-energy calculation of ribonucleic inosines and its application to nearest-neighbor parameters

S Sakuraba, J Iwakiri, M Hamada… - Journal of chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
research, we combined measurements from UV melting experiments with molecular simulation
… of the two neighboring base pairs. ΔG 37,termAU represents the penalty for each A–U …

Nearest-neighbour transition-state analysis for nucleic acid kinetics

NA Rejali, FD Ye, AM Zuiter, CC Keller… - … Acids Research, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… One critical aspect of association kinetics that we did not study is the effect of mismatches.
A recent study investigated how single, double, and triple mismatches influence duplex …

Impact of DNA Adduct Size, Number, and Relative Position on the Toxicity of Aromatic Amines: A Molecular Dynamics Case Study of ANdG- and APdG-Containing …

RW Kung, TK Deak, CA Griffith-Salik… - Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
… the central base pairs from the 5′ flanking base pair of G 1 to the 3′ flanking base pair
of … As discussed for AN dG, the most stabilizing effects occur for the next-nearest-neighbor

High-throughput single-molecule quantification of individual base stacking energies in nucleic acids

J Abraham Punnoose, KJ Thomas… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
… of force fields in molecular dynamics simulations. Our results … only involves consideration of
the base pairing, and this work … from previous data or nearest neighbor approximations, and …