Molecular dynamics simulation of nucleic acids

TE Cheatham III, PA Kollman - Annual review of physical …, 2000 - annualreviews.org
We review molecular dynamics simulations of nucleic acids, including those completed from
1995 to 2000, with a focus on the applications and results rather than the methods. After the …

Towards mixed sequence recognition by triple helix formation

DM Gowers, KR Fox - Nucleic acids research, 1999 - academic.oup.com
The formation of intermolecular DNA triple helices offers the possibility of designing
compounds with extensive sequence recognition properties which may be useful as …

A Modified Version of the Cornell et al. Force Field with Improved Sugar Pucker Phases and Helical Repeat

TE Cheatham III, P Cieplak… - Journal of Biomolecular …, 1999 - Taylor & Francis
We have examined some subtle parameter modifications to the Cornell et al. force field,
which has proven quite successful in reproducing nucleic acid properties, but whose C2 …

Water and ion binding around RNA and DNA (C, G) oligomers

P Auffinger, E Westhof - Journal of molecular biology, 2000 - Elsevier
The dynamics, hydration, and ion-binding features of two duplexes, the A (r (CG) 12) and the
B (d (CG) 12), in a neutralizing aqueous environment with 0.25 M added KCl have been …

Nanosecond molecular dynamics simulations of parallel and antiparallel guanine quadruplex DNA molecules

N Špačková, I Berger, J Šponer - Journal of the American …, 1999 - ACS Publications
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are presented of four-stranded G-DNA molecules
formed by the sequences d (G4) and d (G4T4G4). Starting coordinates are based on high …

Simulations of the molecular dynamics of nucleic acids

P Auffinger, E Westhof - Current opinion in structural biology, 1998 - Elsevier
The growing amount of high quality molecular dynamics simulations generated using the
latest methodological developments and force fields has led to a sharper understanding of …

A kirkwood‐buff derived force field for amides

M Kang, PE Smith - Journal of computational chemistry, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
A force field for the computer simulation of aqueous solutions of amides is presented. The
force field is designed to reproduce the experimentally observed density and Kirkwood–Buff …

Nucleic acid triple helices: stability effects of nucleobase modifications

J Robles, A Grandas, E Pedroso… - Current Organic …, 2002 - ingentaconnect.com
In the last years DNA triplexes have been the subject of a very intense research effort, which
has been summarized in a vast number of books and reviews (see for example refs.[1-16]) …

Calculations of nucleic acid conformations

S Louise-May, P Auffinger, E Westhof - Current opinion in structural biology, 1996 - Elsevier
The present computational power and sophistication of theoretical approaches to nucleic
acid structural investigation are sufficient for the realization of static and dynamic models that …

Hydrogen-bonded trimers of DNA bases and their interaction with metal cations: ab initio quantum-chemical and empirical potential study

J Šponer, JV Burda, P Mejzlik… - Journal of …, 1997 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Neutral (G. GC, A. AT, G. AT, T. AT, and C (imino). GC) and protonated (CH+. GC
and AH+. GC) hydrogen-bonded trimers of nucleic acid bases were characterized by ab …