RNA–ligand molecular docking: Advances and challenges

Y Zhou, Y Jiang, SJ Chen - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
With rapid advances in computer algorithms and hardware, fast and accurate virtual
screening has led to a drastic acceleration in selecting potent small molecules as drug …

Polyfluorinated groups in medicinal chemistry

M Bassetto, S Ferla, F Pertusati - Future Medicinal Chemistry, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction of novel and diverse functional groups in drug discovery is always seen with
hesitancy until good activity and low toxicity characteristics are proven. The introduction of …

Kinetic resolution of the atomic 3D structures formed by ground and excited conformational states in an RNA dynamic ensemble

R Roy, A Geng, H Shi, DK Merriman… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Knowing the 3D structures formed by the various conformations populating the RNA free-
energy landscape, their relative abundance, and kinetic interconversion rates is required to …

[HTML][HTML] Mn2+-sensing mechanisms of yybP-ykoY orphan riboswitches

IR Price, A Gaballa, F Ding, JD Helmann, A Ke - Molecular cell, 2015 - cell.com
Gene regulation in cis by riboswitches is prevalent in bacteria. The yybP-ykoY riboswitch
family is quite widespread, yet its ligand and function remained unknown. Here, we …

Mg2+ Shifts Ligand-Mediated Folding of a Riboswitch from Induced-Fit to Conformational Selection

KC Suddala, J Wang, Q Hou… - Journal of the American …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Bacterial riboswitches couple small-molecule ligand binding to RNA conformational
changes that widely regulate gene expression, rendering them potential targets for antibiotic …

[HTML][HTML] Ligand modulates cross-coupling between riboswitch folding and transcriptional pausing

JR Widom, YA Nedialkov, V Rai, RL Hayes, CL Brooks… - Molecular cell, 2018 - cell.com
Numerous classes of riboswitches have been found to regulate bacterial gene expression in
response to physiological cues, offering new paths to antibacterial drugs. As common …

Single transcriptional and translational preQ1 riboswitches adopt similar pre-folded ensembles that follow distinct folding pathways into the same ligand-bound …

KC Suddala, AJ Rinaldi, J Feng, AM Mustoe… - Nucleic acids …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Riboswitches are structural elements in the 5′ untranslated regions of many bacterial
messenger RNAs that regulate gene expression in response to changing metabolite …

Advances in RNA labeling with trifluoromethyl groups

C Eichler, M Himmelstoß, R Plangger… - … A European Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Fluorine labeling of ribonucleic acids (RNA) in conjunction with 19F NMR spectroscopy has
emerged as a powerful strategy for spectroscopic analysis of RNA structure and dynamics …

Structure and function of pseudoknots involved in gene expression control

A Peselis, A Serganov - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Natural RNA molecules can have a high degree of structural complexity but even the most
complexly folded RNAs are assembled from simple structural building blocks. Among the …

[HTML][HTML] A chemical probe based on the PreQ1 metabolite enables transcriptome-wide mapping of binding sites

S Balaratnam, C Rhodes, DD Bume, C Connelly… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The role of metabolite-responsive riboswitches in regulating gene expression in bacteria is
well known and makes them useful systems for the study of RNA-small molecule …