UUCG RNA Tetraloop as a Formidable Force-Field Challenge for MD Simulations.

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
K. MrazikovaJiri Sponer

Abstract

Explicit solvent atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations represent an established technique to study structural dynamics of RNA molecules and an important complement for diverse experimental methods. However, performance of molecular mechanical (MM) force fields (ff's) remains far from satisfactory even after decades of development, as apparent from a problematic structural description of some important RNA motifs. Actually, some of the smallest RNA molecules belong to the most challenging systems for MD simulations and, among them, the UUCG tetraloop is saliently difficult. We report a detailed analysis of UUCG MD simulations, depicting the sequence of events leading to the loss of the UUCG native state during MD simulations. The total amount of MD simulation data analyzed in this work is close to 1.3 ms. We identify molecular interactions, backbone conformations, and substates that are involved in the process. Then, we unravel specific ff deficiencies using diverse quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) and QM calculations. Comparison between the MM and QM methods shows discrepancies in the description of the 5'-flanking phosphate moiety and both signature sugar-base interactions. Our work indicates that poor b...Continue Reading

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