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most citedComputer Folding of RNA Tetraloops: Identification of Key Force Field Deficiencies

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q-bio.BM2024★ 2 cited

Molecular simulations to investigate the impact of N6-methylation in RNA recognition: Improving accuracy and precision of binding free energy prediction

Valerio Piomponi, Miroslav Krepl, Jiri Sponer +1

N6-methyladenosine (m6A) is a prevalent RNA post-transcriptional modification that plays crucial roles in RNA stability, structural dynamics, and interactions with proteins. The YT…

q-bio.BM2024★ 13 cited

RNA Dynamics from Experimental and Computational Approaches

Giovanni Bussi, Massimiliano Bonomi, Paraskevi Gkeka +16

Ribonucleic acids (RNA) are unique in that they can store genetic information, replicate and perform catalysis. Importantly, RNA molecules are highly dynamic, and thus determining…

q-bio.BM2023★ 9 cited

Do conformational changes contribute to the surface plasmon resonance signal?

Daniel Dobrovodský, Carmelo Di Primo

Surface plasmon resonance (SPR)-based biosensors are widely used instruments for characterizing molecular interactions. In theory the SPR signal depends only on mass changes for in…

q-bio.BM2016★ 125 cited

Folding of guanine quadruplex molecules -- funnel-like mechanism or kinetic partitioning? An overview from MD simulation studies

Jiří Šponer, Giovanni Bussi, Petr Stadlbauer +6

Background: Guanine quadruplexes (GQs) play vital roles in many cellular processes and are of much interest as drug targets. In contrast to the availability of many structural stud…

q-bio.BM2016★ 164 cited

Computer Folding of RNA Tetraloops: Identification of Key Force Field Deficiencies

Petra Kührová, Robert B. Best, Sandro Bottaro +4

The computer-aided folding of biomolecules, particularly RNAs, is one of the most difficult challenges in computational structural biology. RNA tetraloops are fundamental RNA motif…

q-bio.BM2016★ 106 cited

Free Energy Landscape of GAGA and UUCG RNA Tetraloops

Sandro Bottaro, Pavel Banáš, Jiri Sponer +1

We report the folding thermodynamics of ccUUCGgg and ccGAGAgg RNA tetraloops using atomistic molecular dynamics simulations. We obtain a previously unreported estimation of the fol…

q-bio.BM2015★ 43 cited

Hairpins Participating in Folding of Human Telomeric Sequence Quadruplexes Studied by Standard and T-REMD Simulations

Petr Stadlbauer, Petra Kührová, Pavel Banáš +5

DNA G-hairpins are potential key structures participating in folding of human telomeric guanine quadruplexes (GQ). We examined their properties by standard MD simulations starting…