Interaction of Na+, K+, Mg2+ and Ca2+ counter cations with RNA

SK Kolev, PS Petkov, MA Rangelov, DV Trifonov… - Metallomics, 2018 - academic.oup.com
… location and binding sites of Na + , K + , Mg 2+ and Ca 2+ metal ions compensating the …
(NA) and interacting with other electronegative centers in those molecules, focusing on RNA. …

Counterions in RNA structure: Structural bioinformatics analysis to identify the role of Mg2+ ions in base pair formation

S Adhikari, D Bhattacharyya, P Roy - arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.05355, 2024 - arxiv.org
… ions like Na+, K+, Ca2+, Mg2+ etc., the role that play the Mg2+ … Divalent cations like Mg2+
are also essential for stabilizing … attention to Mg2+ ions and its interaction with RNA. According …

[PDF][PDF] Cations in charge: magnesium ions in RNA folding and catalysis

JC Bowman, TK Lenz, NV Hud… - Current opinion in …, 2012 - williams.chemistry.gatech.edu
… The interactions of these cations with RNA are … Mg2+ [31 ] than for other relevant cations.
Non-electrostatic components are negligible for Na+, K+, Ca2+ and polyamines, because cation

Magnesium Ions Are Required by Bacillus subtilis Ribonuclease P RNA for both Binding and Cleaving Precursor tRNAAsp

JA Beebe, JC Kurz, CA Fierke - Biochemistry, 1996 - ACS Publications
… Article Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text … ν = moles of Mg 2+ bound to P
RNA per total moles of P RNA. Data … of the interaction of condensed cations with P RNA. This …

Complexes of nucleic acids with group I and II cations

C Hsiao, E Tannenbaum, H VanDeusen, E Hershkovitz… - 2008 - books.rsc.org
… The interactions of nucleic acids with cations follow basic … the coordination of Na + , K + , Ca
2+ and Mg 2+ by phosphates … propose a model of RNA folding that is consistent with Mg 2+ …

DNA, RNA, and DNA/RNA Oligomer Duplexes:  A Comparative Study of Their Stability, Heat, Hydration, and Mg2+ Binding Properties

BI Kankia, LA Marky - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 1999 - ACS Publications
… Article Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text … the interaction of cations with
single strands and duplexes. … seven water molecules from the hydration shells of Ca 2+ and …

Characterization of Mg2+ Distributions around RNA in Solution

JA Lemkul, SK Lakkaraju, AD MacKerell Jr - Acs Omega, 2016 - ACS Publications
… Article Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November
… Toward a greater understanding of the interactions of Mg 2+ with folded RNA, we present a …

Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics of Na+ and Mg2+ Countercations at the Backbone of RNA in Water Solution

S Kolev, PS Petkov, M Rangelov… - ACS Chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
… We have shown that sodium cation is very mobile and moves between the first and second
… related to the interactions of sodium ions with the phosphate groups from RNA backbone. …

Competitive binding of Mg2+, Ca2+, Na+, and K+ ions to DNA in oriented DNA fibers: experimental and Monte Carlo simulation results

N Korolev, AP Lyubartsev, A Rupprecht… - Biophysical journal, 1999 - cell.com
… In the living cell, RNA and DNA phosphate groups and … cations when, respectively, both
Na + and K + or Ca 2+ and … -counterion interactions from 23 Na NMR relaxation studies ( …

Magnesium contact ions stabilize the tertiary structure of transfer RNA: electrostatics mapped by two-dimensional infrared spectra and theoretical simulations

J Schauss, A Kundu, BP Fingerhut… - The Journal of Physical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
… + , K + , Ca 2+ , Mn 2+ , or Mg 2+ , have been a subject of calculations based on … interact
with the high negative charge density of the RNA backbone. Contact geometries, that is, cations