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Conformational penalties: New insights into nucleic acid recognition

Current Opinion in Structural Biology
The energy cost accompanying changes in the structures of nucleic acids when they bind partner molecules is a significant but underappreciated thermodynamic contribution to binding affinity and specificity. This review highlights recent advances in measuring conformational penalties and determining their contribution to the recognition, folding, and ...
Ainan, Geng, Rohit, Roy, Hashim M, Al-Hashimi   +2 more
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Conformational properties of nucleic acids in solution

International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 2009
Principles which govern the conformational properties of nucleic acid structures in aqueous solution are derived from extensive nuclear magnetic resonance studies of nucleic acid components. These principles are then utilized to project the solution conformation of tRNA.
Ramaswamy H. Sarma, Steven S. Danyluk
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Conformational principles of nucleic acids

1981
From a conformational standpoint, nucleic acids are enormously complex. In order to rigorously describe, for example, the secondary structure of a repeating polynucleotide such as fibrous poly dA·dT, the values of twelve torsion angles must be ascertained (Figure 1.1); contrast this with a repeating polypeptide where only two conformation angles need ...
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Conformational Studies of Nucleic Acids: III. Empirical Multiple Correlation Functions for Nucleic Acid Torsion Angles

Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, 1986
There are seven significantly variable torsion angles in each monomer unit of a polynucleotide. Because of this, it is computationally infeasible to consider the energetics of all conformations available to a nucleic acid without the use of simplifications.
D A, Pearlman, S H, Kim
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Conformation of Viral Nucleic Acids in Situ

1969
Publisher Summary The problems that are discussed in this chapter are confined to viruses, and to be more exact, to the question of similarities and differences between the structure and properties of usual forms of nucleic acids in solution and that of nucleic acids inside viral particles.
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Conformational geometry and vibrational frequencies of nucleic acid chains

Biopolymers, 1975
AbstractNormal coordinate analysis of diethyl phosphate has been made, which predicts all observed Raman frequencies in the range 170–1300 cm−1. The force constants from this calculation have been transferred to a vibrational calculation for a simplified model of the backbone of nucleic acids, which also involves the OPO2−O phosphate group and the ...
E B, Brown, W L, Peticolas
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Triangulating Nucleic Acid Conformations Using Multicolor Surface Energy Transfer

ACS Nano, 2016
Optical ruler methods employing multiple fluorescent labels offer great potential for correlating distances among several sites, but are generally limited to interlabel distances under 10 nm and suffer from complications due to spectral overlap. Here we demonstrate a multicolor surface energy transfer (McSET) technique able to triangulate multiple ...
Ryan A, Riskowski, Rachel E, Armstrong, Nancy L, Greenbaum, Geoffrey F, Strouse   +3 more
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Watersoluble synthetic nucleic acid analogs--polyethyleneimine derivatives containing nucleic acid bases--conformation and interactionwith nucleic acids.

Nucleic acids symposium series, 1991
Water soluble polyethyleneimine derivatives containing nucleic acid bases were found to interact with polynucleotides, DNA, RNA. The conformational change by formation of complex was observed by CD spectra and was discussed with the hypochromicity in UV spectra.
T, Wada, E, Mochizuki, Y, Inaki, K, Takemoto   +3 more
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Alternative conformations of a nucleic acid four-way junction

Journal of Molecular Biology, 2000
A crystal structure of a 108 nucleotide RNA-DNA complex containing a four-way junction was solved at 3.1 A resolution. The structure of the junction differs substantially from the "stacked-X" conformation observed previously, due to a 135 degrees rotation of the branches.
J, Nowakowski, P J, Shim, C D, Stout, G F, Joyce   +3 more
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Computing Nonequilibrium Conformational Dynamics of Structured Nucleic Acid Assemblies

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2015
Synthetic nucleic acids can be programmed to form precise three-dimensional structures on the nanometer-scale. These thermodynamically stable complexes can serve as structural scaffolds to spatially organize functional molecules including multiple enzymes, chromophores, and force-sensing elements with internal dynamics that include substrate reaction ...
Reza Sharifi, Sedeh, Keyao, Pan, Matthew Ralph, Adendorff, Oskar, Hallatschek, Klaus-Jürgen, Bathe, Mark, Bathe   +5 more
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