RNA structural dynamics as captured by molecular simulations: a comprehensive overview

J Sponer, G Bussi, M Krepl, P Banáš, S Bottaro… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
With both catalytic and genetic functions, ribonucleic acid (RNA) is perhaps the most
pluripotent chemical species in molecular biology, and its functions are intimately linked to …

RNA 3D structure prediction using coarse-grained models

J Li, SJ Chen - Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The three-dimensional (3D) structures of Ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules are essential to
understanding their various and important biological functions. However, experimental …

IsRNA1: De Novo Prediction and Blind Screening of RNA 3D Structures

D Zhang, J Li, SJ Chen - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Modeling structures and functions of large ribonucleic acid (RNAs) especially with
complicated topologies is highly challenging due to the inefficiency of large conformational …

In silico design and validation of high-affinity RNA aptamers targeting epithelial cellular adhesion molecule dimers

DR Bell, JK Weber, W Yin, T Huynh… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Nucleic acid aptamers hold great promise for therapeutic applications due to their favorable
intrinsic properties, as well as high-throughput experimental selection techniques. Despite …

Recognizing the power of machine learning and other computational methods to accelerate progress in small molecule targeting of RNA

G Bagnolini, TTB Luu, AE Hargrove - RNA, 2023 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
RNA structures regulate a wide range of processes in biology and disease, yet small
molecule chemical probes or drugs that can modulate these functions are rare. Machine …

Predicting the effect of single mutations on protein stability and binding with respect to types of mutations

P Pandey, SK Panday, P Rimal, N Ancona… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The development of methods and algorithms to predict the effect of mutations on protein
stability, protein–protein interaction, and protein–DNA/RNA binding is necessitated by the …

Theory and simulations for RNA folding in mixtures of monovalent and divalent cations

HT Nguyen, N Hori… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
RNA molecules cannot fold in the absence of counterions. Experiments are typically
performed in the presence of monovalent and divalent cations. How to treat the impact of a …

IsRNA: An iterative simulated reference state approach to modeling correlated interactions in RNA folding

D Zhang, SJ Chen - Journal of chemical theory and computation, 2018 - ACS Publications
Coarse-grained RNA folding models promise great potential for RNA structure prediction. A
key component in a coarse-grained folding model is the force field. One of the challenges in …

Computational modeling of RNA 3D structure based on experimental data

A Ponce-Salvatierra, Astha, K Merdas… - Bioscience …, 2019 - portlandpress.com
RNA molecules are master regulators of cells. They are involved in a variety of molecular
processes: they transmit genetic information, sense cellular signals and communicate …

rsRNASP: A residue-separation-based statistical potential for RNA 3D structure evaluation

YL Tan, X Wang, YZ Shi, W Zhang, ZJ Tan - Biophysical Journal, 2022 - cell.com
Abstract Knowledge-based statistical potentials have been shown to be rather effective in
protein 3-dimensional (3D) structure evaluation and prediction. Recently, several statistical …