Journal of molecular biology
Feb 15, 2025
RNAs are emerging as promising therapeutic targets, yet identifying small molecules that bind to them remains a significant challenge in drug discovery. This underscores the crucial role of computational modeling in predicting RNA-small molecule bind...
Current opinion in structural biology
Feb 10, 2025
Predicting RNA structures from sequences with computational approaches is of vital importance in RNA biology considering the high costs of experimental determination. AI methods have revolutionized this field in recent years, enabling RNA structure p...
Journal of molecular biology
Feb 1, 2025
RNA modifications are known to play a critical role in gene regulation and cellular processes. Specifically, N4-acetylcytidine (ac4C) modification has emerged as a significant marker involved in mRNA translation efficiency, stability, and various dis...
Methods (San Diego, Calif.)
Jan 30, 2025
RNA-protein interactions are crucial for biological functions across multiple levels. RNA binding proteins (RBPs) intricately engage in diverse biological processes through specific RNA molecule interactions. Previous studies have revealed the indisp...
Computational biology and chemistry
Jan 29, 2025
Small molecule-targeted RNA is an emerging technology that plays a pivotal role in drug discovery and inhibitor design, with widespread applications in disease treatment. Consequently, predicting RNA-small-molecule ligand interactions is crucial. Wit...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Jan 7, 2025
Enhanced sampling (ES) simulations of biomolecular recognition, such as binding small molecules to proteins and nucleic acid targets, protein-protein association, and protein-nucleic acid interactions, have gained significant attention in the simulat...
BMC bioinformatics
Jan 6, 2025
BACKGROUND: Deoxyribozymes or DNAzymes represent artificial short DNA sequences bearing many catalytic properties. In particular, DNAzymes able to cleave RNA sequences have a huge potential in gene therapy and sequence-specific analytic detection of ...
Methods (San Diego, Calif.)
Dec 30, 2024
5-Methylcytosine (m5C) plays a pivotal role in various RNA metabolic processes, including RNA localization, stability, and translation. Current high-throughput sequencing technologies for m5C site identification are resource-intensive in terms of cos...
PLoS computational biology
Dec 30, 2024
The 3D structure of RNA critically influences its functionality, and understanding this structure is vital for deciphering RNA biology. Experimental methods for determining RNA structures are labour-intensive, expensive, and time-consuming. Computati...
Biophysical journal
Dec 25, 2024
Advanced deep learning and statistical methods can predict structural models for RNA molecules. However, RNAs are flexible, and it remains difficult to describe their macromolecular conformations in solutions where varying conditions can induce confo...