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ArticleThe journal of physical chemistry. B2014

Conformational preferences of DNA in reduced dielectric environments.

Asli Yildirim, Monika Sharma, Bradley Michael Varner, Liang Fang, Michael Feig

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Article in The journal of physical chemistry. B, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Asli YildirimDepartment of Chemistry and ‡Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Michigan State University , East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States.
Monika Sharma
Bradley Michael Varner
Liang Fang
Michael Feig

Funding

Multiscale modeling of supramolecular protein-DNA assembliesR01GM092949 · NIGMS · MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI FEIG, MICHAEL · 2010 to 2013
$1.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM092949
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The effect of reduced dielectric environments on the conformational sampling of DNA was examined through molecular dynamics simulations. Different dielectric environments were used to model one aspect of cellular environments. Implicit solvent based on the Generalized Born methodology was used to reflect different dielectric environments in the simulations. The simulation results show a tendency of DNA structures to favor noncanonical A-like conformations rather than canonical A- and B-forms as a result of the reduced dielectric environments. The results suggest that the reduced dielectric response in cellular environments may be sufficient to enhance the sampling of A-like DNA structures compared to dilute solvent conditions.

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DNA, A-FormDNA, B-FormMolecular Dynamics SimulationNucleic Acid ConformationSolventsThermodynamicsDNA, A-FormDNA, B-FormSolvents

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PMID25166278
PMCPMC4167066

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