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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 120, Issue 33, Pages 8369-8378Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b02081
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- National Science Centre [DEC-2012/05/B/NZ1/00035, DEC-2014/12/W/ST5/00589]
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We have designed a protocol and server to aid in the search for putative binding sites in 16S rRNA that could be targeted by peptide nucleic acid oligomers. Various features of 16S rRNA were considered to score its regions as potential targets for sequence-specific binding that could result in inhibition of ribosome function. Specifically, apart from the functional importance of a particular rRNA region, we calculated its accessibility, flexibility, energetics of strand invasion by an oligomer, as well as similarity to human rRNA. To determine 16S rRNA flexibility in the ribosome context, we performed all-atom molecular dynamics simulations of the 30S subunit in explicit solvent. We proposed a few 16S RNA target sites, and one of them was tested experimentally to verify inhibition of bacterial growth by a peptide nucleic acid oligomer.
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