SimRNA: a coarse-grained method for RNA folding simulations and 3D structure prediction

MJ Boniecki, G Lach, WK Dawson… - Nucleic acids …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
RNA molecules play fundamental roles in cellular processes. Their function and interactions
with other biomolecules are dependent on the ability to form complex three-dimensional …

Conserved pseudoknots in lncRNA MEG3 are essential for stimulation of the p53 pathway

T Uroda, E Anastasakou, A Rossi, JM Teulon… - Molecular cell, 2019 - cell.com
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are key regulatory molecules, but unlike with other RNAs,
the direct link between their tertiary structure motifs and their function has proven elusive …

[HTML][HTML] Coarse-grained modeling of RNA 3D structure

WK Dawson, M Maciejczyk, EJ Jankowska, JM Bujnicki - Methods, 2016 - Elsevier
Functional RNA molecules depend on three-dimensional (3D) structures to carry out their
tasks within the cell. Understanding how these molecules interact to carry out their biological …

RNA structure and dynamics: a base pairing perspective

S Halder, D Bhattacharyya - Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 2013 - Elsevier
RNA is now known to possess various structural, regulatory and enzymatic functions for
survival of cellular organisms. Functional RNA structures are generally created by three …

Optimization of RNA 3D structure prediction using evolutionary restraints of nucleotide–nucleotide interactions from direct coupling analysis

J Wang, K Mao, Y Zhao, C Zeng, J Xiang… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Direct coupling analysis of nucleotide coevolution provides a novel approach to identify
which nucleotides in an RNA molecule are likely in direct contact, and this information …

A structural analysis of the group II intron active site and implications for the spliceosome

KS Keating, N Toor, PS Perlman, AM Pyle - Rna, 2010 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
Group II introns are self-splicing, mobile genetic elements that have fundamentally
influenced the organization of terrestrial genomes. These large ribozymes remain important …

Lightweight object oriented structure analysis: tools for building tools to analyze molecular dynamics simulations

TD Romo, N Leioatts… - Journal of computational …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
LOOS (Lightweight Object Oriented Structure‐analysis) is a C++ library designed to facilitate
making novel tools for analyzing molecular dynamics simulations by abstracting out the …

Structural basis of differential ligand recognition by two classes of bis-(3′-5′)-cyclic dimeric guanosine monophosphate-binding riboswitches

KD Smith, CA Shanahan, EL Moore… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
The bis-(3′-5′)-cyclic dimeric guanosine monophosphate (c-di-GMP) signaling pathway
regulates biofilm formation, virulence, and other processes in many bacterial species and is …

[HTML][HTML] Salt dependence of nucleic acid hairpin stability

ZJ Tan, SJ Chen - Biophysical journal, 2008 - cell.com
Single-stranded junctions/loops are frequently occurring structural motifs in nucleic acid
structures. Due to the polyanionic nature of the nucleic acid backbone, metal ions play a …

Predicting structures and stabilities for H-type pseudoknots with interhelix loops

S Cao, SJ Chen - RNA, 2009 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
RNA pseudoknots play a critical role in RNA-related biology from the assembly of ribosome
to the regulation of viral gene expression. A predictive model for pseudoknot structure and …