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Analyzing and Building Nucleic Acid Structures with 3DNA
Published on: April 26, 2013
Dataset of normalized probability distributions of virtual bond lengths, bond angles, and dihedral angles for the
1Department of Applied Physics, Zhejiang University of Technology, China.
Abstract:
The utility of the coarse-grained (CG) single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) model can drastically reduce the compute time for simulating the ssDNA dynamics. The model-matched CG potentials and the inherent potential constants can be derived by coarse-graining the experimentally measured ssDNA structures. A useful and widespread treatment of the CG model is to use three different pseudo-atoms P, S, and B to represent the atomic groups of phosphate, sugar, and base, respectively, in each nucleotide of the ssDNA structures. The three pseudo-atoms generate nine types of the structural parameters to characterize the unstructured ssDNA conformations, including three (virtual) bond lengths (P-S, S-B, and S-P) between two neighbouring beads, four bond angles (P-S-P, S-P-S, P-S-B, and B-S-P) between three adjacent bonds, and two dihedral angles (P-S-P-S and S-P-S-P) between three successive bonds. This paper mainly presents the data of normalized probability distributions of the bond lengths, bond angles, and dihedral angles for the CG ssDNAs.
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