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ArticlePhysical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP2008

Assessing the performance of implicit solvation models at a nucleic acid surface.

Feng Dong, Jason A Wagoner, Nathan A Baker

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Article in Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Variational approach for nonpolar solvation analysis.The Journal of chemical physics · 2012
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  8. The AGBNP2 Implicit Solvation Model.Journal of chemical theory and computation · 2009
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3 authors.

Feng DongMerck & Co. Inc., 770 Sumneytown Pike, West Point, PA 19486, USA. feng_dong@merck.com
Jason A Wagoner
Nathan A Baker

Funding

APBS: NANOSCALE BIOMOLECULAR ELECTROSTATICS SOFTWARER01GM069702 · NIGMS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI BAKER, NATHAN A. · 2004 to 2021
$6.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM 069702NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM069702
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Implicit solvation models are popular alternatives to explicit solvent methods due to their ability to "pre-average" solvent behavior and thus reduce the need for computationally-expensive sampling. Previously, we have demonstrated that Poisson-Boltzmann models for polar solvation and integral-based models for nonpolar solvation can reproduce explicit solvation forces in a low-charge density protein system. In the present work, we examine the ability of these continuum models to describe solvation forces at the surface of a RNA hairpin. While these models do not completely describe all of the details of solvent behavior at this highly-charged biomolecular interface, they do provide a reasonable description of average solvation forces and therefore show significant promise for developing more robust implicit descriptions of solvent around nucleic acid systems for use in biomolecular simulation and modeling. Additionally, we observe fairly good transferability in the nonpolar model parameters optimized for protein systems, suggesting its robustness for modeling general nonpolar solvation phenomena in biomolecular systems.

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Models, MolecularNucleic Acid ConformationRNASolventsRNASolvents

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PMID18688533
PMCPMC2538626

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