The development of nucleic acids force fields: From an unchallenged past to a competitive future

K Liebl, M Zacharias - Biophysical Journal, 2023 - cell.com
Molecular dynamics simulations have strongly matured as a method to study biomolecular
processes. Their validity, however, is determined by the accuracy of the underlying force …

On the Power and Challenges of Atomistic Molecular Dynamics to Investigate RNA Molecules

S Muscat, G Martino, J Manigrasso… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
RNA molecules play a vital role in biological processes within the cell, with significant
implications for science and medicine. Notably, the biological functions exerted by specific …

Explainable supervised machine learning model to predict solvation gibbs energy

J Ferraz-Caetano, F Teixeira… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Many challenges persist in developing accurate computational models for predicting
solvation free energy (Δ G sol). Despite recent developments in Machine Learning (ML) …

Comprehensive Assessment of Force-Field Performance in Molecular Dynamics Simulations of DNA/RNA Hybrid Duplexes

B Knappeová, V Mlynsky, M Pykal… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Mixed double helices formed by RNA and DNA strands, commonly referred to as hybrid
duplexes or hybrids, are essential in biological processes like transcription and reverse …

Hierarchical assembly of single-stranded RNA

LM Pietrek, LS Stelzl, G Hummer - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) plays a major role in the flow of genetic information–most
notably, in the form of messenger RNA (mRNA)–and in the regulation of biological …

Application of molecular dynamics simulation for exploring the roles of plant biomolecules in promoting environmental health

J Wu, T Gao, H Guo, L Zhao, S Lv, J Lv, R Yao… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding the dynamic changes of plant biomolecules is vital for exploring their
mechanisms in the environment. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation has been widely used …

Carbon nanopores for DNA sequencing: a review on nanopore materials

J Xu, X Jiang, N Yang - Chemical Communications, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
In the past few decades, nanometer-scale pores have been employed as a powerful tool for
sensing biological molecules. In pursuit of this technology, a variety of nanotechnology …

Molecular dynamics simulations of nucleosomes are coming of age

AS Fedulova, GA Armeev… - Wiley …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the function of eukaryotic genomes, including the human genome, is
undoubtedly one of the major scientific challenges of the 21st century. The cornerstone of …

Thermodynamics and kinetics of DNA and RNA dinucleotide hybridization to gaps and overhangs

B Ashwood, MS Jones, A Radakovic, S Khanna… - Biophysical …, 2023 - cell.com
Hybridization of short nucleic acid segments (< 4 nt) to single-strand templates occurs as a
critical intermediate in processes such as nonenzymatic nucleic acid replication and toehold …

Simulation-Guided Conformational Space Exploration to Assess Reactive Conformations of a Ribozyme

S Forget, M Juillé, E Duboué-Dijon… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Self-splicing ribozymes are small ribonucleic acid (RNA) enzymes that catalyze their own
cleavage through a transphosphoesterification reaction. While this process is involved in …