中国物理B ›› 2021, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (2): 28705-0.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/abc0d6

所属专题: SPECIAL TOPIC — Modeling and simulations for the structures and functions of proteins and nucleic acids

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  • 收稿日期:2020-06-27 修回日期:2020-09-02 接受日期:2020-10-14 出版日期:2021-01-18 发布日期:2021-01-26

Statistical potentials for 3D structure evaluation: From proteins to RNAs

Ya-Lan Tan(谭雅岚), Chen-Jie Feng(封晨洁), Xunxun Wang(王勋勋), Wenbing Zhang(张文炳)†, and Zhi-Jie Tan(谭志杰)‡   

  1. Department of Physics and Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro & Nano-structures of Education, School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
  • Received:2020-06-27 Revised:2020-09-02 Accepted:2020-10-14 Online:2021-01-18 Published:2021-01-26
  • Contact: Corresponding author. E-mail: wbzhang@whu.edu.cn Corresponding author. E-mail: zjtan@whu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11774272 and 11575128). The numerical calculations related to our work in this review were performed on the supercomputing system in the Supercomputing Center of Wuhan University.

Abstract: Structure evaluation is critical to in silico 3-dimensional structure predictions for biomacromolecules such as proteins and RNAs. For proteins, structure evaluation has been paid attention over three decades along with protein folding problem, and statistical potentials have been shown to be effective and efficient in protein structure prediction and evaluation. In recent two decades, RNA folding problem has attracted much attention and several statistical potentials have been developed for RNA structure evaluation, partially with the aid of the progress in protein structure prediction. In this review, we will firstly give a brief overview on the existing statistical potentials for protein structure evaluation. Afterwards, we will introduce the recently developed statistical potentials for RNA structure evaluation. Finally, we will emphasize the perspective on developing new statistical potentials for RNAs in the near future.

Key words: statistical potential, 3-dimensional structure evaluation, RNA, protein

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