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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2016

Free-energy landscape of a hyperstable RNA tetraloop.

Jacob C Miner, Alan A Chen, Angel E García

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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3 authors.

Jacob C MinerCenter for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545; Department of Biological Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180;
Alan A ChenDepartment of Chemistry, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY 12222;
Angel E GarcíaCenter for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545; Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180 agarcia@lanl.gov.

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Modular and Project Based Training to Enhance Rigor and Reproducibility in Research for Diverse Biomedical CareersT32GM067545 · NIGMS · RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE · PI VASHISHTH, DEEPAK · 2004 to 2020
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NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM067545
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report the characterization of the energy landscape and the folding/unfolding thermodynamics of a hyperstable RNA tetraloop obtained through high-performance molecular dynamics simulations at microsecond timescales. Sampling of the configurational landscape is conducted using temperature replica exchange molecular dynamics over three isochores at high, ambient, and negative pressures to determine the thermodynamic stability and the free-energy landscape of the tetraloop. The simulations reveal reversible folding/unfolding transitions of the tetraloop into the canonical A-RNA conformation and the presence of two alternative configurations, including a left-handed Z-RNA conformation and a compact purine Triplet. Increasing hydrostatic pressure shows a stabilizing effect on the A-RNA conformation and a destabilization of the left-handed Z-RNA. Our results provide a comprehensive description of the folded free-energy landscape of a hyperstable RNA tetraloop and highlight the significant advances of all-atom molecular dynamics in describing the unbiased folding of a simple RNA secondary structure motif.

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Molecular Dynamics SimulationRNA FoldingRNA StabilityRNARNAfree-energy landscapemolecular dynamicspressureRNAtetraloop

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PMID27233937
PMCPMC4914146

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