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ArticleThe journal of physical chemistry. B2010

Coarse-grained model for simulation of RNA three-dimensional structures.

Zhen Xia, David Paul Gardner, Robin R Gutell, Pengyu Ren

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Article in The journal of physical chemistry. B, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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40 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Driving forces of RNA condensation revealed through coarse-grained modeling with explicit MgProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  3. RNA Folding Based on 5 Beads Model and Multiscale Simulation.Interdisciplinary sciences, computational life sciences · 2023
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  5. Computational tools to study RNA-protein complexes.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2022
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  9. RNA 3D Structure Prediction Using Coarse-Grained Models.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2021
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  10. Predicting RNA Scaffolds with a Hybrid Method of Vfold3D and VfoldLA.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Zhen XiaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Texas 78712, USA.
David Paul Gardner
Robin R Gutell
Pengyu Ren

Funding

The CRW Project: A Comparative Database of RNA MoleculesR01GM067317 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN · PI GUTELL, ROBIN R · 2003 to 2012
$2.1M
Computational Drug Discovery with Polarizable Potential Eneergy FunctionR01GM079686 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI REN, PENGYU · 2007 to 2011
$1.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM067317NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM079686
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The accurate prediction of an RNA's three-dimensional structure from its "primary structure" will have a tremendous influence on the experimental design and its interpretation and ultimately our understanding of the many functions of RNA. This paper presents a general coarse-grained (CG) potential for modeling RNA 3-D structures. Each nucleotide is represented by five pseudo atoms, two for the backbone (one for the phosphate and another for the sugar) and three for the base to represent base-stacking interactions. The CG potential has been parametrized from statistical analysis of 688 RNA experimental structures. Molecular dynamic simulations of 15 RNA molecules with the length of 12-27 nucleotides have been performed using the CG potential, with performance comparable to that from all-atom simulations. For ~75% of systems tested, simulated annealing led to native-like structures at least once out of multiple repeated runs. Furthermore, with weak distance restraints based on the knowledge of three to five canonical Watson-Crick pairs, all 15 RNAs tested are successfully folded to within 6.5 Å of native structures using the CG potential and simulated annealing. The results reveal that with a limited secondary structure model the current CG potential can reliably predict the 3-D structures for small RNA molecules. We also explored an all-atom force field to construct atomic structures from the CG simulations.

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Models, ChemicalNucleic Acid ConformationRNARNA

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PMID20883011
PMCPMC2989335

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