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ArticleJournal of molecular modeling2006

The effect of salt concentration on DNA conformation transition: a molecular-dynamics study.

Chen Song, Yueyuan Xia, Mingwen Zhao, Xiangdong Liu, Feng Li, Yanju Ji, Boda Huang, Yanyan Yin

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Article in Journal of molecular modeling, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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  3. Molecular modeling of nucleic acid structure: setup and analysis.Current protocols in nucleic acid chemistry · 2001
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Chen SongSchool of Physics and Microelectronics, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, 250100, China. sc3210@gmail.com
Yueyuan Xia
Mingwen Zhao
Xiangdong Liu
Feng Li
Yanju Ji
Boda Huang
Yanyan Yin

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Abstract

We performed three 3-ns molecular dynamics simulations of d(CGCGAATTCGCG)2 using the AMBER 8 package to determine the effect of salt concentration on DNA conformational transitions. All the simulations were started with A-DNA, with different salt concentrations, and converged with B-DNA with similar conformational parameters. However, the dynamic processes of the three MD simulations were very different. We found that the conformation transition was slow in the solution with higher salt concentration. To determine the cause of this retardation, we performed three additional 1.5-ns simulations starting with B-DNA and with the salt concentrations corresponding to the simulations mentioned above. However, astonishingly, there was no delayed conformation evolution found in any of the three simulations. Thus, our simulation conclusion is that higher salt concentrations slows the A --> B conformation transition, but have no effect on the final stable structure. [Figure: see text].

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CarbohydratesDNAModels, MolecularNucleic Acid ConformationSodium ChlorideCarbohydratesDNASodium Chloride

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