Dynamics of ionic interactions at protein–nucleic acid interfaces

B Yu, BM Pettitt, J Iwahara - Accounts of chemical research, 2020 - ACS Publications
Ion condensation around such molecules can be predicted … distribution of ions around
hydration shells of nucleic acids. … or occupancy of the hydration water molecule at this site. The …

Optimized magnesium force field parameters for biomolecular simulations with accurate solvation, ion-binding, and water-exchange properties

KK Grotz, S Cruz-León, N Schwierz - Journal of chemical theory …, 2021 - ACS Publications
ion-binding including the de novo prediction of inner-sphere … AMBER force fields for nucleic
acids and proteins have been … Hereby, we follow each water molecule individually through

Molecular dynamics simulations of alkaline earth metal ions binding to DNA reveal ion size and hydration effects

MP Long, S Alland, ME Martin… - Physical Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
… first solvation shell are key to predicting how … water molecules were described by the TIP3P
water model. DNA was modeled by the AMBER99SB force field with ParmBSC0 nucleic acid

Optimized magnesium force field parameters for biomolecular simulations with accurate solvation, ion-binding, and water-exchange properties in SPC/E, TIP3P-fb …

KK Grotz, N Schwierz - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2021 - ACS Publications
… and the binding affinity to nucleic acids in TIP3P water. Since … Mg 2+ , or to predict ion binding
sites in biomolecular simulations… one water molecule in the first hydration shell with a water

Hydration and charge-transfer effects of alkaline earth metal ions binding to a carboxylate anion, phosphate anion, and guanine nucleobase

K Walden, ME Martin, L LaBee… - The Journal of Physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
predict that all explicit water molecules are bound to the ion … additional water molecules in
the second solvation shell of the ionusing the optimized geometries and the DFT methods and …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental approaches for investigating ion atmospheres around nucleic acids and proteins

B Yu, J Iwahara - Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
… binding (as opposed to site binding) and are unresolved even in … this theory does not predict
the dependence of ΔN on ionicSolvation of ions and macromolecules is neglected and ions

How 'protein-docking'translates into the new emerging field of docking small molecules to nucleic acids?

F Tessaro, L Scapozza - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
… ] allowing waters and cations site-prediction during … nucleic acids is the electrostatic
distribution of the charges, which is associated with the solvation effect of water molecules and ions

Accelerating Drug Discovery through Method Developments in Nucleic Acid Docking and Force Fields for Small Molecules

W Wei - 2021 - escholarship.mcgill.ca
water placement and is the only well-validated method to-date, for water placement for nucleic
acids… -date for predicting tightly-bound water molecules in nucleic acid-ligand complexes. …

[HTML][HTML] Applications of water molecules for analysis of macromolecule properties

K Mitusińska, A Raczyńska, M Bzówka… - Computational and …, 2020 - Elsevier
… optimal positions of water molecules for protein hydration, ii) … of the techniques used for the
prediction of water molecules’ … large cavities and protein-nucleic acids complexes, that are …

Sensitivity of the RNA structure to ion conditions as probed by molecular dynamics simulations of common canonical RNA duplexes

P Kuhrova, V Mlynsky, M Otyepka… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
… distribution of ions around nucleic acids. Atomic details of the … system, ion type, used water
model, and size of solvate box … inclination predicted by the OL3 force field (OPC water model) …