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. 2016 Jun 13;12(7):3382–3389. doi: 10.1021/acs.jctc.6b00173

Table 2. Percent Occupancy for Mg2+ Atoms in Experimentally Determined RNA Binding Sites, Calculated for Folded Structuresa.

    folded cluster, Mg2+ (%)
binding site atom Aqvist Merz Villa 12-6-4 m12-6-4
1 U_7@OP1 3.15 2.75 2.54 32.88 11.55
  U_7@OP2 62.8 58.07 55.52 76.85 79.15
  U_7@O5′ 0 0 n.f. 36 29.87
  G_8@OP1 5.94 4.93 4.5 15.53 28.82
  G_8@O3′ 0.02 0.02 0.35 3.22 0.04
  A_9@OP1 11.95 10.41 10.32 19.38 6.74
  A_9@OP2 53.04 46.21 42.78 26.64 26.72
2 U_7@O2′ 0.1 0.07 0.05 0.26 0.3
  G_8@N7 1.06 0.85 0.67 2.42 3.97
  A_9@N7 0 n.f. n.f. n.f. 0
3 U_6@O4 24.75 20.08 19.58 21.67 20.42
  U_7@O4 8.07 6.38 7.88 10.14 9.97
  C_10@OP1 19.53 16.51 17.54 17 13.01
  C_10@OP2 31 24.95 23.04 23.41 29.44
4 U_11@OP1 10.26 8.86 10.03 67.58 27.94
  U_11@O3′ 0.08 0.05 8.31 3.54 0.87
  A_12@N7 0 n.f. 0 n.f. n.f.
a

n.f. = not found.