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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
卷 125, 期 3, 页码 771-779出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c09237
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- National Science Foundation [CHE-1856704]
A new advanced sampling technique based on order parameters was developed to calculate the free energy of DNA hybridization and estimate the melting temperature of DNA oligomers at atomistic resolution. The estimated melting temperatures matched experimental numbers within +/- 15 degrees C, demonstrating the numerical reliability of the procedures employed.
Studying DNA hybridization equilibrium at atomistic length scales, either via molecular dynamics (MD) or through commonly used advanced sampling approaches, is notoriously difficult. In this work, we describe an order-parameter-based advanced sampling technique to calculate the free energy of hybridization, and estimate the melting temperature of DNA oligomers at atomistic resolution. The free energy landscapes are reported as a function of a native-topology-based order parameter for the Drew-Dickerson dodecamer and for a range of DNA decamer sequences of different GC content. Our estimated melting temperatures match the experimental numbers within +/- 15 degrees C. As a test of the numerical reliability of the procedures employed, it was verified that the predicted free energy surfaces and melting temperatures of the D- and L-enantiomers of the Drew-Dickerson dodecamer were indistinguishable within numerical accuracy.
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