Therapeutic Potential of Aptamer–Protein Interactions

AS Shraim, BA Abdel Majeed… - ACS Pharmacology & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Aptamers are single-stranded oligonucleotides (RNA or DNA) with a typical length between
25 and 100 nucleotides which fold into three-dimensional structures capable of binding to …

Intrinsic regulatory role of RNA structural arrangement in alternative splicing control

K Taylor, K Sobczak - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Alternative splicing is a highly sophisticated process, playing a significant role in
posttranscriptional gene expression and underlying the diversity and complexity of …

Discovery of key physicochemical, structural, and spatial properties of RNA‐targeted bioactive ligands

BS Morgan, JE Forte, RN Culver… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
While a myriad non‐coding RNAs are known to be essential in cellular processes and
misregulated in diseases, the development of RNA‐targeted small molecule probes has met …

Assessing the performance of MM/PBSA and MM/GBSA methods. 8. Predicting binding free energies and poses of protein–RNA complexes

F Chen, H Sun, J Wang, F Zhu, H Liu, Z Wang, T Lei… - Rna, 2018 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
Molecular docking provides a computationally efficient way to predict the atomic structural
details of protein–RNA interactions (PRI), but accurate prediction of the three-dimensional …

Can we execute stable microsecond-scale atomistic simulations of protein–RNA complexes?

M Krepl, M Havrila, P Stadlbauer, P Banas… - Journal of chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
We report over 30 μs of unrestrained molecular dynamics simulations of six protein–RNA
complexes in explicit solvent. We utilize the AMBER ff99bsc0χOL3 RNA force field combined …

Sampling native-like structures of RNA-protein complexes through Rosetta folding and docking

K Kappel, R Das - Structure, 2019 - cell.com
RNA-protein complexes underlie numerous cellular processes including translation,
splicing, and posttranscriptional regulation of gene expression. The structures of these …

A novel protocol for three-dimensional structure prediction of RNA-protein complexes

Y Huang, S Liu, D Guo, L Li, Y Xiao - Scientific reports, 2013 - nature.com
Three-dimensional structures of RNA-protein complexes are crucial for understanding their
diverse functions. However, the number of the RNA-protein complex structures solved by …

Molecular dynamics simulations of protein RNA complexes by using an advanced electrostatic model

Z Jing, P Ren - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2022 - ACS Publications
Protein–RNA interactions are integral to the biological functions of RNA. It is well recognized
that molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of protein–RNA complexes are more challenging …

Evidence of direct complementary interactions between messenger RNAs and their cognate proteins

AA Polyansky, B Zagrovic - Nucleic acids research, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Recently, the ability to interact with messenger RNA (mRNA) has been reported for a
number of known RNA-binding proteins, but surprisingly also for different proteins without …

Molecular architecture of protein-RNA recognition sites

A Barik, SP Pilla, RP Bahadur - Journal of Biomolecular Structure …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The molecular architecture of protein-RNA interfaces are analyzed using a non-redundant
dataset of 152 protein-RNA complexes. We find that an average protein-RNA interface is …