title: RNA solvation: a molecular dynamics simulation perspective.
abstract: With the availability of accurate methods to treat the electrostatic long-range interactions, molecular dynamics simulations have resulted in refined dynamical models of the structure of the hydration shell around RNA motifs. The models reviewed here range from basic Watson-Crick to more specific noncanonical base pairs, from "simple" double helices to RNA molecules displaying more complex tertiary folds, and from DNA/RNA hybrid double helices to RNA hybrids formed with a chemically modified strand.
authors.affiliation: Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire du CNRS, Modélisations et Simulations des Acides Nucléiques, UPR 9002, 15 rue René Descartes, 67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Auffinger
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Westhof
mesh_terms: D020029:Base Pairing; D003198:Computer Simulation; D006860:Hydrogen Bonding; D007477:Ions / Q000737:chemistry; D008958:Models, Molecular; D012313:RNA / Q000737:chemistry*; D012997:Solvents / Q000737:chemistry*; D055672:Static Electricity; D013816:Thermodynamics; D014867:Water / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D007477:Ions; D012997:Solvents; D014867:Water; D012313:RNA