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ReviewChemical science2021

A perspective on the molecular simulation of DNA from structural and functional aspects.

Manas Mondal, Lijiang Yang, Zhicheng Cai, Piya Patra, Yi Qin Gao

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Review in Chemical science, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Manas MondalInstitute of Systems and Physical Biology, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory 518055 Shenzhen China gaoyq@pku.edu.cn.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3919-539X
Lijiang YangBeijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University 100871 Beijing China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8175-0609
Zhicheng CaiBeijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University 100871 Beijing China.
Piya PatraInstitute of Systems and Physical Biology, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory 518055 Shenzhen China gaoyq@pku.edu.cn.
Yi Qin GaoInstitute of Systems and Physical Biology, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory 518055 Shenzhen China gaoyq@pku.edu.cn.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4309-9376
Peking University · CNShenzhen Bay Laboratory · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As genetic material, DNA not only carries genetic information by sequence, but also affects biological functions ranging from base modification to replication, transcription and gene regulation through its structural and dynamic properties and variations. The motion and structural properties of DNA involved in related biological processes are also multi-scale, ranging from single base flipping to local DNA deformation, TF binding, G-quadruplex and i-motif formation, TAD establishment, compartmentalization and even chromosome territory formation, just to name a few. The sequence-dependent physical properties of DNA play vital role in all these events, and thus it is interesting to examine how simple sequence information affects DNA and the formation of the chromatin structure in these different hierarchical orders. Accordingly, molecular simulations can provide atomistic details of interactions and conformational dynamics involved in different biological processes of DNA, including those inaccessible by current experimental methods. In this perspective, which is mainly based on our recent studies, we provide a brief overview of the atomistic simulations on how the hierarchical structure and dynamics of DNA can be influenced by its sequences, base modifications, environmental factors and protein binding in the context of the protein-DNA interactions, gene regulation and structural organization of chromatin. We try to connect the DNA sequence, the hierarchical structures of DNA and gene regulation.

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PMID34168783
PMCPMC8179617
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