Principles of ion binding to RNA inferred from the analysis of a 1.55 Å resolution bacterial ribosome structure – Part I: Mg2+

F Leonarski, A Henning-Knechtel… - Nucleic Acids …, 2025 - academic.oup.com
The importance of Mg2+ ions for RNA structure and function cannot be overstated. Several
attempts were made to establish a comprehensive Mg2+ binding site classification …

Fast and accurate quantum mechanical modeling of large molecular systems using small basis set Hartree–Fock methods corrected with atom-centered potentials

VK Prasad, A Otero-de-la-Roza… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
There has been significant interest in developing fast and accurate quantum mechanical
methods for modeling large molecular systems. In this work, by utilizing a machine learning …

[PDF][PDF] Knowledge-based prediction of DNA hydration using hydrated dinucleotides as building blocks

L Biedermannová, J Černý, M Malý… - … Section D: Structural …, 2022 - journals.iucr.org
Water plays an important role in stabilizing the structure of DNA and mediating its
interactions. Here, the hydration of DNA was analyzed in terms of dinucleotide fragments …

Hydration structure and dynamics of inhibitor-bound HIV-1 protease

F Leidner, N Kurt Yilmaz, J Paulsen… - Journal of chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Water is essential in many biological processes, and the hydration structure plays a critical
role in facilitating protein folding, dynamics, and ligand binding. A variety of biophysical …

B-Factor Rescaling for Protein Crystal Structure Analyses

G Mlynek, K Djinović-Carugo, O Carugo - Crystals, 2024 - mdpi.com
The B-factor, also known as the atomic displacement parameter, is a fundamental metric in
crystallography for quantifying the positional flexibility of atoms within crystal lattices. In …

Small-basis set density-functional theory methods corrected with atom-centered potentials

VK Prasad, A Otero-de-la-Roza… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Density functional theory (DFT) is currently the most popular method for modeling
noncovalent interactions and thermochemistry. The accurate calculation of noncovalent …

RNA and RNA-protein complexes Principles of ion binding to RNA inferred from the analysis of a 1.55 Å resolution bacterial ribosome structure - Part I: Mg2+

F Leonarski, A Henning-Knechtel… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - cnrs.hal.science
The importance of Mg 2+ ions for RNA structure and function cannot be overstated. Several
attempts were made to establish a comprehensive Mg 2+ binding motif classification …

Performance of small basis set Hartree–Fock methods for modeling non-covalent interactions

VK Prasad, A Otero-de-la-Roza… - Electronic Structure, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Non-covalent interactions (NCIs) play an essential role in (bio) chemistry. Wavefunction-
based methods combined with large basis sets are able to accurately describe inter-and …

[HTML][HTML] Outcomes of the EMDataResource Cryo-EM Ligand Modeling Challenge

CL Lawson, A Kryshtafovych, GD Pintilie… - Research …, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract The EMDataResource Ligand Model Challenge aimed to assess the reliability and
reproducibility of modeling ligands bound to protein and protein/nucleic-acid complexes in …

Synergistic effects of hydration sites in protein stability: a theoretical water thermodynamics approach

J Biswal, P Jayaprakash, R Rangaswamy… - Frontiers in Protein …, 2020 - Springer
The hydrating water molecules play a crucial role in enhancing the structural stability,
protein folding, and competition with the ligand for its occupancy at the binding site. This …