Molecular dynamic simulations of environment and sequence dependent DNA conformations: the development of the BMS nucleic acid force field and comparison …

DR Langley - Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, 1998 - Taylor & Francis
Molecular dynamic (MD) simulations using the BMS nucleic acid force field produce
environment and sequence dependent DNA conformations that closely mimic …

DNA polymorphism: a comparison of force fields for nucleic acids

SY Reddy, F Leclerc, M Karplus - Biophysical journal, 2003 - cell.com
The improvements of the force fields and the more accurate treatment of long-range
interactions are providing more reliable molecular dynamics simulations of nucleic acids …

Structural equilibrium of DNA represented with different force fields

M Feig, BM Pettitt - Biophysical Journal, 1998 - cell.com
We have recently indicated preliminary evidence of different equilibrium average structures
with the CHARMM and AMBER force fields in explicit solvent molecular dynamics …

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 …

Molecular dynamics simulations of DNA with polarizable force fields: convergence of an ideal B-DNA structure to the crystallographic structure

V Babin, J Baucom, TA Darden… - The Journal of Physical …, 2006 - ACS Publications
We have investigated to what extent molecular dynamics (MD) simulations can reproduce
DNA sequence-specific features, given different electrostatic descriptions and different cell …

Structures and Dynamics of DNA Mini-Dumbbells Are Force Field Dependent

L Winkler, R Galindo-Murillo… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Flexible nucleic acid structures can be challenging to accurately resolve with currently
available experimental structural determination techniques. As an alternative, molecular …

Experiment vs force fields: DNA conformation from molecular dynamics simulations

M Feig, BM Pettitt - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 1997 - ACS Publications
Molecular dynamics simulations of the DNA duplex d (CCCCCTTTTT) 2 in ionic solution with
AMBER and CHARMM force fields are compared. CHARMM parameters result in an A-DNA …

Molecular dynamics of DNA: comparison of force fields and terminal nucleotide definitions

CG Ricci, ASC de Andrade, M Mottin… - The Journal of Physical …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Despite DNA being a very important target for several proteins and drugs, molecular
dynamics simulations with nucleic acids still encompass many challenges, such as the …

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 …

Accurate DNA dynamics without accurate long-range electrostatics

AK Mazur - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1998 - ACS Publications
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of the DNA dodecamer d (CGCGAATTCGCG) 2, with
the bulk solvent represented implicitly but the minor groove filled with explicit water …