Nucleic acid solvation: from outside to insight

P Auffinger, Y Hashem - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2007‏ - Elsevier
Nucleic acids are polyanionic molecules that were historically considered to be solely
surrounded by a shell of water molecules and a neutralizing cloud of monovalent and …

Recent advances in the study of nucleic acid flexibility by molecular dynamics

M Orozco, A Noy, A Pérez - Current opinion in structural biology, 2008‏ - Elsevier
The recent use of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to study flexibility of nucleic acids
has been reviewed from an analysis of the publications appearing in the past two years …

A systematic molecular dynamics study of nearest-neighbor effects on base pair and base pair step conformations and fluctuations in B-DNA

R Lavery, K Zakrzewska, D Beveridge… - Nucleic acids …, 2010‏ - academic.oup.com
It is well recognized that base sequence exerts a significant influence on the properties of
DNA and plays a significant role in protein–DNA interactions vital for cellular processes …

[HTML][HTML] Convergence and reproducibility in molecular dynamics simulations of the DNA duplex d (GCACGAACGAACGAACGC)

R Galindo-Murillo, DR Roe, TE Cheatham III - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Background The structure and dynamics of DNA are critically related to its function.
Molecular dynamics simulations augment experiment by providing detailed information …

Sequence-dependent DNA deformability studied using molecular dynamics simulations

S Fujii, H Kono, S Takenaka, N Go… - Nucleic acids …, 2007‏ - academic.oup.com
Proteins recognize specific DNA sequences not only through direct contact between amino
acids and bases, but also indirectly based on the sequence-dependent conformation and …

Structure, stiffness and substates of the Dickerson-Drew dodecamer

T Drsata, A Pérez, M Orozco, AV Morozov… - Journal of chemical …, 2013‏ - ACS Publications
The Dickerson–Drew dodecamer (DD) d [CGCGAATTCGCG] 2 is a prototypic B-DNA
molecule whose sequence-specific structure and dynamics have been investigated by many …

Intrinsic flexibility of B-DNA: the experimental TRX scale

B Heddi, C Oguey, C Lavelle, N Foloppe… - Nucleic acids …, 2010‏ - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT B-DNA flexibility, crucial for DNA–protein recognition, is sequence dependent.
Free DNA in solution would in principle be the best reference state to uncover the relation …

Mechanical properties of symmetric and asymmetric DNA A-tracts: implications for loo** and nucleosome positioning

T Dršata, N Špačková, P Jurečka… - Nucleic acids …, 2014‏ - academic.oup.com
A-tracts are functionally important DNA sequences which induce helix bending and have
peculiar structural properties. While A-tract structure has been qualitatively well …

cgDNA: a software package for the prediction of sequence-dependent coarse-grain free energies of B-form DNA

D Petkevičiūtė, M Pasi, O Gonzalez… - Nucleic acids …, 2014‏ - academic.oup.com
Abstract cgDNA is a package for the prediction of sequence-dependent configuration-space
free energies for B-form DNA at the coarse-grain level of rigid bases. For a fragment of any …

The role of water H-bond imbalances in B-DNA substate transitions and peptide recognition revealed by time-resolved FTIR spectroscopy

H Khesbak, O Savchuk, S Tsushima… - Journal of the american …, 2011‏ - ACS Publications
The conformational substates BI and BII of the phosphodiester backbone in B-DNA are
thought to contribute to DNA flexibility and protein recognition. We have studied by rapid …