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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THEORY AND COMPUTATION
卷 6, 期 5, 页码 1520-1531出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ct900604a
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- NIH [GM22939]
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES [R01GM022939] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
A reparameterization of the torsional parameters for the glycosidic dihedral angle, y, for the AMBER99 force field in RNA nucleosides is used to provide a modified force field, AMBER997. Molecular dynamics simulations of cytidine, uridine, adenosine, and guanosine in aqueous solution using the AMBER99 and AMBER99x force fields are compared with NMR results. For each nucleoside and force field, 10 individual molecular dynamics simulations of 30 ns each were run. For cytidine with AMBER99x force field, each molecular dynamics simulation time was extended to 120 ns for convergence purposes. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, including one-dimensional (1D) H-1, steady-state 1D H-1 nuclear Overhauser effect (NOE), and transient 1D H-1 NOE, was used to determine the sugar puckering and preferred base orientation with respect to the ribose of cytidine and uridine. The AMBER99 force field overestimates the population of syn conformations of the base orientation and of C2'-endo sugar puckering of the pyrimidines, while the AMBER99x force field's predictions are more consistent with NMR results. Moreover, the AMBER99 force field prefers high anti conformations with glycosidic dihedral angles around 310 degrees for the base orientation of purines. The AMBER99x force field prefers anti conformations around 185 degrees, which is more consistent with the quantum mechanical calculations and known 3D structures of folded ribonucleic acids (RNAs). Evidently, the AMBER99x force field predicts the structural characteristics of ribonucleosides better than the AMBER99 force field and should improve structural and thermodynamic predictions of RNA structures.
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