Theoretical methods for the description of the solvent effect in biomolecular systems

M Orozco, FJ Luque - Chemical Reviews, 2000 - ACS Publications
The environment plays a key role in the determination of the properties and reactivity of
substances in condensed phases. The complexity of chemical phenomena in solution has …

Molecular dynamics simulation of nucleic acids: successes, limitations, and promise

TE Cheatham III, MA Young - Biopolymers: Original Research …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
In the last five years we have witnessed a significant increase in the number publications
describing accurate and reliable all‐atom molecular dynamics simulations of nucleic acids …

Refinement of the AMBER force field for nucleic acids: improving the description of α/γ conformers

A Pérez, I Marchán, D Svozil, J Sponer, TE Cheatham… - Biophysical journal, 2007 - cell.com
We present here the parmbsc0 force field, a refinement of the AMBER parm99 force field,
where emphasis has been made on the correct representation of the α/γ concerted rotation …

A Modified Version of the Cornell et al. Force Field with Improved Sugar Pucker Phases and Helical Repeat

TE Cheatham III, P Cieplak… - Journal of Biomolecular …, 1999 - Taylor & Francis
We have examined some subtle parameter modifications to the Cornell et al. force field,
which has proven quite successful in reproducing nucleic acid properties, but whose C2 …

All‐atom empirical force field for nucleic acids: II. Application to molecular dynamics simulations of DNA and RNA in solution

AD MacKerell Jr, NK Banavali - Journal of computational …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular dynamics simulations based on empirical force fields can greatly enhance
knowledge of DNA and RNA structure and dynamics in solution. Presented are results on …

Dynamics of B-DNA on the microsecond time scale

A Pérez, FJ Luque, M Orozco - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2007 - ACS Publications
We present the first microsecond MD simulation of B-DNA. Trajectory shows good
agreement with available data and clarifies the μs dynamics of DNA. The duplex is sampling …

Molecular dynamics simulation of nucleic acids

TE Cheatham III, PA Kollman - Annual review of physical …, 2000 - annualreviews.org
We review molecular dynamics simulations of nucleic acids, including those completed from
1995 to 2000, with a focus on the applications and results rather than the methods. After the …

How accurate are accurate force-fields for B-DNA?

PD Dans, I Ivani, A Hospital, G Portella… - Nucleic Acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Last generation of force-fields are raising expectations on the quality of molecular dynamics
(MD) simulations of DNA, as well as to the belief that theoretical models can substitute …

The structural impact of DNA mismatches

G Rossetti, PD Dans, I Gomez-Pinto, I Ivani… - Nucleic acids …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The structure and dynamics of all the transversion and transition mismatches in three
different DNA environments have been characterized by molecular dynamics simulations …

On the truncation of long-range electrostatic interactions in DNA

J Norberg, L Nilsson - Biophysical journal, 2000 - cell.com
Long-range interactions are known to play an important role in highly polar biomolecules
like DNA. In molecular dynamics simulations of nucleic acids and proteins, an accurate …