RNA structural dynamics as captured by molecular simulations: a comprehensive overview

J Sponer, G Bussi, M Krepl, P Banáš, S Bottaro… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
With both catalytic and genetic functions, ribonucleic acid (RNA) is perhaps the most
pluripotent chemical species in molecular biology, and its functions are intimately linked to …

New developments in force fields for biomolecular simulations

PS Nerenberg, T Head-Gordon - Current opinion in structural biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Biomolecular force fields (FFs) have progressed rapidly in the past five
years.•Fixed-charge FF accuracy has improved, but challenges remain for complex …

[HTML][HTML] A suite of tutorials for the WESTPA rare-events sampling software [Article v1. 0]

AT Bogetti, B Mostofian, A Dickson… - Living journal of …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The weighted ensemble (WE) strategy has been demonstrated to be highly efficient in
generating pathways and rate constants for rare events such as protein folding and protein …

Assessing the current state of amber force field modifications for DNA

R Galindo-Murillo, JC Robertson… - Journal of chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The utility of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to model biomolecular structure,
dynamics, and interactions has witnessed enormous advances in recent years due to the …

Programming nanoparticle valence bonds with single-stranded DNA encoders

G Yao, J Li, Q Li, X Chen, X Liu, F Wang, Z Qu, Z Ge… - Nature materials, 2020 - nature.com
Nature has evolved strategies to encode information within a single biopolymer to program
biomolecular interactions with characteristic stoichiometry, orthogonality and …

AMOEBA polarizable atomic multipole force field for nucleic acids

C Zhang, C Lu, Z Jing, C Wu, JP Piquemal… - Journal of chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The AMOEBA polarizable atomic multipole force field for nucleic acids is presented. Valence
and electrostatic parameters were determined from high-level quantum mechanical data …

New tricks for old dogs: improving the accuracy of biomolecular force fields by pair-specific corrections to non-bonded interactions

J Yoo, A Aksimentiev - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
In contrast to ordinary polymers, the vast majority of biological macromolecules adopt highly
ordered three-dimensional structures that define their functions. The key to folding of a …

Ethidium bromide interactions with DNA: an exploration of a classic DNA–ligand complex with unbiased molecular dynamics simulations

R Galindo-Murillo, TE Cheatham III - Nucleic acids research, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Visualization of double stranded DNA in gels with the binding of the fluorescent dye
ethidium bromide has been a basic experimental technique in any molecular biology …

[HTML][HTML] Review of force fields and intermolecular potentials used in atomistic computational materials research

JA Harrison, JD Schall, S Maskey, PT Mikulski… - Applied Physics …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Molecular simulation is a powerful computational tool for a broad range of applications
including the examination of materials properties and accelerating drug discovery. At the …

Development of force field parameters for the simulation of single-and double-stranded DNA molecules and DNA–protein complexes

MR Tucker, S Piana, D Tan, MV LeVine… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Although molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have been used extensively to study the
structural dynamics of proteins, the role of MD simulation in studies of nucleic acid based …