Abstract:
:There are only four derivatives of pseudouridine (Ψ) that are known to occur naturally in RNA as post-transcriptional modifications. We have studied the conformational consequences of pseudouridylation and further modifications using replica exchange molecular dynamics simulations at the nucleoside level, and the simulated conformational preferences were compared with the available experimental (NMR) data. We found that the existing AMBER FF99-derived parameters for these nucleosides did not reproduce the observed experimental features and while the recommended bsc0 correction could be combined with these parameters leading to an improvement in the description of sugar pucker distributions, the χOL3 correction could not be applied to these nucleosides as such because of base isomerization. On the other hand, the revised χ torsion parameters (χIDRP) for Ψ developed earlier by us (Deb, I., J. Comput. Chem., 2016, 37, 1576-1588) in combination with the AMBER provided parameters and the revised γ torsion parameters generated conformational distributions, which generally were in better agreement with the experimental data. A significant shift of the distribution of base orientation toward the syn conformation was observed with our revised parameter sets compared to the large excess of anti conformation predicted by the FF99 parameters. Overall, our observations indicated that our revised set of parameters (χIDRP) for Ψ were also able to generate conformational distributions for all of the derivatives of Ψ in better agreement with the experimental data.
journal_name
J Chem Inf Modeljournal_title
Journal of chemical information and modelingauthors
Dutta N,Sarzynska J,Lahiri Adoi
10.1021/acs.jcim.0c00369subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2020-10-26 00:00:00pages
4995-5002issue
10eissn
1549-9596issn
1549-960Xjournal_volume
60pub_type
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