A general RNA force field : comprehensive analysis of energy minima of molecular fragments of RNA

Force fields are actively used to study RNA. Development of accurate force fields relies on a knowledge of how the variation of properties of molecules depends on their structure. Detailed scrutiny of RNA's conformational preferences is needed to guide such development. Towards this end, minimum energy structures for each of a set of 16 small RNA-derived molecules were obtained by geometry optimization at the HF/6-31G(d,p), B3LYP/apc-1, and MP2/cc-pVDZ levels of theory. The number of minima computed for a given fragment was found to be related to both its size and flexibility. Atomic electrostatic multipole moments of atoms occurring in the [HO-P(O3)-CH2-] fragment of 30 sugar-phosphate-sugar geometries were calculated at the HF/6-31G(d,p) and B3LYP/apc-1 levels of theory, and the transferability of these properties between different conformations was investigated. The atomic multipole moments were found to be highly transferable between different conformations with small standard deviations. These results indicate necessary elements of the development of accurate RNA force fields.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:27

Enthalten in:

Journal of molecular modeling - 27(2021), 5 vom: 26. Apr., Seite 137

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Yuan, Yongna [VerfasserIn]
Mills, Matthew J L [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Zhuangzhuang [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Yan [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Chunyan [VerfasserIn]
Su, Wei [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

63231-63-0
Conformational analysis
Force field
Journal Article
Multipole moments
Quantum chemical topology
RNA

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Date Completed 23.11.2021

Date Revised 23.11.2021

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s00894-021-04746-9

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM324573995