[HTML][HTML] The role of RNA m5C modification in cancer metastasis

Q Zhang, F Liu, W Chen, H Miao, H Liang… - … journal of biological …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Epigenetic modification plays a crucial regulatory role in the biological processes of
eukaryotic cells. The recent characterization of DNA and RNA methylation is still ongoing …

Characterizing micro-to-millisecond chemical exchange in nucleic acids using off-resonance R1ρ relaxation dispersion

A Rangadurai, ES Szymaski, IJ Kimsey, H Shi… - Progress in nuclear …, 2019 - Elsevier
This review describes off-resonance R 1ρ relaxation dispersion NMR methods for
characterizing microsecond-to-millisecond chemical exchange in uniformly 13 C/15 N …

DNA mismatches reveal conformational penalties in protein–DNA recognition

A Afek, H Shi, A Rangadurai, H Sahay, A Senitzki… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Transcription factors recognize specific genomic sequences to regulate complex gene-
expression programs. Although it is well-established that transcription factors bind to specific …

Development of force field parameters for the simulation of single-and double-stranded DNA molecules and DNA–protein complexes

MR Tucker, S Piana, D Tan, MV LeVine… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Although molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have been used extensively to study the
structural dynamics of proteins, the role of MD simulation in studies of nucleic acid based …

Conformational plasticity of parallel G-quadruplex─ implications on duplex–Quadruplex motifs

RKR Sannapureddi, MK Mohanty… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
DNA G-quadruplexes are essential motifs in molecular biology performing a wide range of
functions enabled by their unique and diverse structures. In this study, we focus on the …

NMR Chemical Exchange Measurements Reveal That N6-Methyladenosine Slows RNA Annealing

H Shi, B Liu, F Nussbaumer… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
N 6-Methyladenosine (m6A) is an abundant epitranscriptomic modification that plays
important roles in many aspects of RNA metabolism. While m6A is thought to mainly function …

MIM-ML: A Novel Quantum Chemical Fragment-Based Random Forest Model for Accurate Prediction of NMR Chemical Shifts of Nucleic Acids

SK Chandy, K Raghavachari - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We developed a random forest machine learning (ML) model for the prediction of 1H and
13C NMR chemical shifts of nucleic acids. Our ML model is trained entirely on reproducing …

Probing Watson-Crick and Hoogsteen base pairing in duplex DNA using dynamic nuclear polarization solid-state NMR spectroscopy

DW Conroy, Y Xu, H Shi… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The majority of base pairs in double-stranded DNA exist in the canonical Watson-Crick
geometry. However, they can also adopt alternate Hoogsteen conformations in various …

Modulation of Hoogsteen dynamics on DNA recognition

Y Xu, J McSally, I Andricioaei, HM Al-Hashimi - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
In naked duplex DNA, G–C and A–T Watson-Crick base pairs exist in dynamic equilibrium
with their Hoogsteen counterparts. Here, we used nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) …

ALYREF (Aly/REF export factor): A potential biomarker for predicting cancer occurrence and therapeutic efficacy

Y Zhao, C Xing, H Peng - Life Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
Methylcytosine (m5C) methylation is present in almost all types of RNA as an essential
epigenetic modification. It is dynamically modulated by its associated enzymes, including …