Polyampholytes

AV Dobrynin, RH Colby… - Journal of Polymer …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Polyampholytes are charged polymers with both positively and negatively charged groups.
The conformation of these polymers in solutions strongly depends on the distribution of …

Twenty‐five years of nucleic acid simulations

TE Cheatham III, DA Case - Biopolymers, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We present a brief, and largely personal, history of computer simulations of DNA and RNA
oligonucleotides, with an emphasis on duplex structures and the Amber force fields. Both …

[HTML][HTML] Refinement of the AMBER force field for nucleic acids: improving the description of α/γ conformers

A Pérez, I Marchán, D Svozil, J Sponer, TE Cheatham… - Biophysical journal, 2007 - cell.com
We present here the parmbsc0 force field, a refinement of the AMBER parm99 force field,
where emphasis has been made on the correct representation of the α/γ concerted rotation …

Dynamics of B-DNA on the microsecond time scale

A Pérez, FJ Luque, M Orozco - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2007 - ACS Publications
We present the first microsecond MD simulation of B-DNA. Trajectory shows good
agreement with available data and clarifies the μs dynamics of DNA. The duplex is sampling …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular dynamics simulations of the 136 unique tetranucleotide sequences of DNA oligonucleotides. I. Research design and results on d (CpG) steps

DL Beveridge, G Barreiro, KS Byun, DA Case… - Biophysical journal, 2004 - cell.com
We describe herein a computationally intensive project aimed at carrying out molecular
dynamics (MD) simulations including water and counterions on B-DNA oligomers containing …

Methods for molecular dynamics simulations of protein folding/unfolding in solution

DAC Beck, V Daggett - Methods, 2004 - Elsevier
All atom molecular dynamics simulations have become a standard method for mapping
equilibrium protein dynamics and non-equilibrium events like folding and unfolding. Here …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular dynamics simulations of the 136 unique tetranucleotide sequences of DNA oligonucleotides. II: sequence context effects on the dynamical …

SB Dixit, DL Beveridge, DA Case, TE Cheatham… - Biophysical journal, 2005 - cell.com
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations including water and counterions on B-DNA oligomers
containing all 136 unique tetranucleotide basepair steps are reported. The objective is to …

Reparameterization of RNA χ torsion parameters for the AMBER force field and comparison to NMR spectra for cytidine and uridine

I Yildirim, HA Stern, SD Kennedy… - Journal of chemical …, 2010 - ACS Publications
A reparameterization of the torsional parameters for the glycosidic dihedral angle, χ, for the
AMBER99 force field in RNA nucleosides is used to provide a modified force field …

The role of water in protein-DNA recognition

B Jayaram, T Jain - Annu. Rev. Biophys. Biomol. Struct., 2004 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Is it by design or by default that water molecules are observed at the interfaces of
some protein-DNA complexes? Both experimental and theoretical studies on the …

DNA charge transport: conformationally gated hopping through stacked domains

MA O'Neil, JK Barton - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2004 - ACS Publications
The role of base motions in delocalization and propagation of charge through double helical
DNA must be established experimentally and incorporated into mechanistic descriptions of …