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 …

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 …

RNAJP: enhanced RNA 3D structure predictions with non-canonical interactions and global topology sampling

J Li, SJ Chen - Nucleic acids research, 2023 - academic.oup.com
RNA 3D structures are critical for understanding their functions. However, only a limited
number of RNA structures have been experimentally solved, so computational prediction …

[HTML][HTML] 3dRNA: Building RNA 3D structure with improved template library

Y Zhang, J Wang, Y **ao - Computational and structural biotechnology …, 2020 - Elsevier
Most of computational methods of building RNA tertiary structure are template-based. The
template-based methods usually can give more accurate 3D structures due to the use of …

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 …

A nucleobase-centered coarse-grained representation for structure prediction of RNA motifs

S Poblete, S Bottaro, G Bussi - Nucleic acids research, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We introduce the SPlit-and-conQueR (SPQR) model, a coarse-grained (CG) representation
of RNA designed for structure prediction and refinement. In our approach, the representation …

Predicting 3D structure and stability of RNA pseudoknots in monovalent and divalent ion solutions

YZ Shi, L **, CJ Feng, YL Tan… - PLOS Computational …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
RNA pseudoknots are a kind of minimal RNA tertiary structural motifs, and their three-
dimensional (3D) structures and stability play essential roles in a variety of biological …

Ab initio predictions for 3D structure and stability of single-and double-stranded DNAs in ion solutions

ZC Mu, YL Tan, BG Zhang, J Liu… - PLOS Computational …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The three-dimensional (3D) structure and stability of DNA are essential to
understand/control their biological functions and aid the development of novel materials. In …

Structure folding of RNA kissing complexes in salt solutions: predicting 3D structure, stability, and folding pathway

L **, YL Tan, Y Wu, X Wang, YZ Shi, ZJ Tan - RNA, 2019 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
RNA kissing complexes are essential for genomic RNA dimerization and regulation of gene
expression, and their structures and stability are critical to their biological functions. In this …

Salt-dependent RNA pseudoknot stability: effect of spatial confinement

C Feng, YL Tan, YX Cheng, YZ Shi… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Macromolecules, such as RNAs, reside in crowded cell environments, which could strongly
affect the folded structures and stability of RNAs. The emergence of RNA-driven phase …