Improving the performance of the amber RNA force field by tuning the hydrogen-bonding interactions

P Kuhrova, V Mlynsky, M Zgarbová… - Journal of chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations became a leading tool for investigation of structural
dynamics of nucleic acids. Despite recent efforts to improve the empirical potentials (force …

Fine-tuning of the AMBER RNA force field with a new term adjusting interactions of terminal nucleotides

V Mlýnský, P Kührová, T Kühr… - Journal of chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Determination of RNA structural-dynamic properties is challenging for experimental
methods. Thus, atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations represent a helpful …

Simple adjustment of intranucleotide base-phosphate interaction in the ol3 amber force field improves RNA simulations

V Mlynsky, P Kuhrova, P Stadlbauer… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations represent an established tool to study RNA
molecules. The outcome of MD studies depends, however, on the quality of the force field …

Automatic learning of hydrogen-bond fixes in the AMBER RNA force field

T Frohlking, V Mlýnský, M Janeček… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The capability of current force fields to reproduce RNA structural dynamics is limited. Several
methods have been developed to take advantage of experimental data in order to enforce …

Benchmarking AMBER force fields for RNA: Comparisons to NMR spectra for single-stranded r (GACC) are improved by revised χ torsions

I Yildirim, HA Stern, JD Tubbs… - The journal of …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Accurately modeling unpaired regions of RNA is important for predicting structure, dynamics,
and thermodynamics of folded RNA. Comparisons between NMR data and molecular …

Combining simulations and solution experiments as a paradigm for RNA force field refinement

A Cesari, A Gil-Ley, G Bussi - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Recent computational efforts have shown that the current potential energy models used in
molecular dynamics are not accurate enough to describe the conformational ensemble of …

Toward convergence in folding simulations of RNA tetraloops: Comparison of enhanced sampling techniques and effects of force field modifications

V Mlynsky, M Janeček, P Kuhrova… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Atomistic molecular dynamics simulations represent an established technique for
investigation of RNA structural dynamics. Despite continuous development, contemporary …

UUCG RNA tetraloop as a formidable force-field challenge for MD simulations

K Mráziková, V Mlýnský, P Kührová… - Journal of chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Explicit solvent atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations represent an established
technique to study structural dynamics of RNA molecules and an important complement for …

RNA force field with accuracy comparable to state-of-the-art protein force fields

D Tan, S Piana, RM Dirks… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation has become a powerful tool for characterizing at an
atomic level of detail the conformational changes undergone by proteins. The application of …

Highly sampled tetranucleotide and tetraloop motifs enable evaluation of common RNA force fields

C Bergonzo, NM Henriksen, DR Roe, TE Cheatham - Rna, 2015 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
Recent modifications and improvements to standard nucleic acid force fields have attempted
to fix problems and issues that have been observed as longer timescale simulations have …