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 …

CHARMM‐GUI 10 years for biomolecular modeling and simulation

S Jo, X Cheng, J Lee, S Kim, SJ Park… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
CHARMM‐GUI, http://www. charmm-gui. org, is a web‐based graphical user interface that
prepares complex biomolecular systems for molecular simulations. CHARMM‐GUI creates …

An efficient linear-scaling Ewald method for long-range electrostatic interactions in combined QM/MM calculations

K Nam, J Gao, DM York - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2005 - ACS Publications
A method is presented for the efficient evaluation of long-range electrostatic forces in
combined quantum mechanical and molecular mechanical (QM/MM) calculations of periodic …

Development of range-corrected deep learning potentials for fast, accurate quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical simulations of chemical reactions in solution

J Zeng, TJ Giese, S Ekesan… - Journal of chemical theory …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We develop a new deep potential─ range correction (DPRc) machine learning potential for
combined quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) simulations of chemical …

Specific reaction parametrization of the AM1/d Hamiltonian for phosphoryl transfer reactions: H, O, and P atoms

K Nam, Q Cui, J Gao, DM York - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2007 - ACS Publications
A semiempirical AM1/d Hamiltonian is developed to model phosphoryl transfer reactions
catalyzed by enzymes and ribozymes for use in linear-scaling calculations and combined …

Origin of iodine preferential attack at sulfur in phosphorothioate and subsequent PO or PS bond dissociation

Q Huang, GY Lee, J Li, C Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Iodine-induced cleavage at phosphorothioate DNA (PT-DNA) is characterized by extremely
high sensitivity (∼ 1 phosphorothioate link per 106 nucleotides), which has been used for …

Target-related applications of first principles quantum chemical methods in drug design

A Cavalli, P Carloni, M Recanatini - Chemical reviews, 2006 - ACS Publications
A fundamental postulate in the classical drug design paradigm is that the effect of a drug in
the human body is a consequence of the molecular recognition between a ligand (the drug) …

Unveiling the sulfur–sulfur bridge: Accurate structural and energetic characterization of a homochalcogen intermolecular bond

DA Obenchain, L Spada, S Alessandrini… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
By combining rotational spectroscopy in supersonic expansion with the capability of state‐of‐
the‐art quantum‐chemical computations in accurately determining structural and energetic …

Quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical simulation study of the mechanism of hairpin ribozyme catalysis

K Nam, J Gao, DM York - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2008 - ACS Publications
The molecular mechanism of hairpin ribozyme catalysis is studied with molecular dynamics
simulations using a combined quantum mechanical and molecular mechanical (QM/MM) …

Ambient-Potential Composite Ewald Method for ab Initio Quantum Mechanical/Molecular Mechanical Molecular Dynamics Simulation

TJ Giese, DM York - Journal of chemical theory and computation, 2016 - ACS Publications
A new approach for performing Particle Mesh Ewald in ab initio quantum
mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) simulations with extended atomic orbital basis …