scholarly journals Prediction of geometrically feasible three-dimensional structures of pseudoknotted RNA through free energy estimation

RNA ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. 2248-2263 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Zhang ◽  
J. Dundas ◽  
M. Lin ◽  
R. Chen ◽  
W. Wang ◽  
...  
Author(s):  
Olivier Ozenda ◽  
Epifanio G. Virga

AbstractThe Kirchhoff-Love hypothesis expresses a kinematic constraint that is assumed to be valid for the deformations of a three-dimensional body when one of its dimensions is much smaller than the other two, as is the case for plates. This hypothesis has a long history checkered with the vicissitudes of life: even its paternity has been questioned, and recent rigorous dimension-reduction tools (based on standard $\varGamma $ Γ -convergence) have proven to be incompatible with it. We find that an appropriately revised version of the Kirchhoff-Love hypothesis is a valuable means to derive a two-dimensional variational model for elastic plates from a three-dimensional nonlinear free-energy functional. The bending energies thus obtained for a number of materials also show to contain measures of stretching of the plate’s mid surface (alongside the expected measures of bending). The incompatibility with standard $\varGamma $ Γ -convergence also appears to be removed in the cases where contact with that method and ours can be made.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pietro Benetti Genolini ◽  
Matan Grinberg ◽  
Paul Richmond

Abstract We revisit the construction in four-dimensional gauged Spin(4) supergravity of the holographic duals to topologically twisted three-dimensional $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 4 field theories. Our focus in this paper is to highlight some subtleties related to preserving supersymmetry in AdS/CFT, namely the inclusion of finite counterterms and the necessity of a Legendre transformation to find the dual to the field theory generating functional. Studying the geometry of these supergravity solutions, we conclude that the gravitational free energy is indeed independent from the metric of the boundary, and it vanishes for any smooth solution.


2020 ◽  
Vol 153 (24) ◽  
pp. 244119
Author(s):  
Steven Blaber ◽  
David A. Sivak

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan A. Bernhardt ◽  
Ulrich H.E. Hansmann

AbstractProteins such as the transcription factor RfaH can change biological function by switching between distinct three-dimensional folds. RfaH regulates transcription if the C-terminal domain folds into a double helix bundle, and promotes translation when this domain assumes a β-barrel form. This fold-switch has been also observed for the isolated domain, dubbed by us RfaH-CTD, and is studied here with a variant of the RET approach recently introduced by us. We use the enhanced sampling properties of this technique to map the free energy landscape of RfaH-CTD and to propose a mechanism for the conversion process.TOC Image


1979 ◽  
Vol 57 (8) ◽  
pp. 1239-1245 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. McKenzie

High temperature low field expansions are derived from the free energy of the Ising model for several two- and three-dimensional lattices. These represent a considerable advance on earlier work. Expansions for the four-dimensional hypercubic lattice are also presented.


2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 1677-1685 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Brieg ◽  
Julia Setzler ◽  
Steffen Albert ◽  
Wolfgang Wenzel

Hydration free energy estimation of small molecules from all-atom simulations was widely investigated in recent years, as it provides an essential test of molecular force fields and our understanding of solvation effects.


Author(s):  
Anjoomaara H. Patel ◽  
Riya B. Patel ◽  
MahammadHussain J. Memon ◽  
Samiya S. Patel ◽  
Sharav A. Desai ◽  
...  

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) virus has been spreading rapidly, and scientists are endeavouring to discover drugs for its efficacious treatment. Chloroquine phosphate, an old drug for treatment of malaria, has shown to have apparent efficacy and acceptable safety against COVID-19. As a part of Drug Discovery Hackathon-2020, in this study, the authors have tried making the derivatives of CQ and HCQ using MarvinSketch by ChemAxon. Molecular docking studies of these ligands were performed using Glide by Schrodinger, and ADME profiles were obtained by using QikProp. The obtained results after data analysis demonstrated that ligands HCQ_imidazoll, choloroquine_3c, HCQ_pyrrolC had good binding affinity and complied with all the ADME parameters. The molecular dynamic simulation of these ligands in complex with the 2019-nCoV RBD/ACE-2-B0AT1 complex PDB ID: 6M17 were carried out, and the parameters like RMSD, RMSF, and radius of gyration were observed to understand the fluctuations and protein-ligand interaction.


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