Session: Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions: Experimental and Modeling Analysis


COMP		Sunday, August 19, 2007

8:30 AM-12:15 PM BCEC -- 156B, Oral
Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions: Experimental and Modeling Analysis

Organizer:	Mihaela Rita Mihailescu
8:30 AM	25	Two-metal associative catalysis: Phosphodiester cleavage in ribonuclease H Marco De Vivo, Matteo Dal Peraro, Michael L. Klein
9:00 AM	26	RNA and protein structural requirements in NCp7 chaperoned HIV-1 DIS maturation John P. Marino
9:30 AM	27	Structural studies of the RNA aptamer drug, Macugen, bound to the angiogenic protein vascular endothelial growth factor Arthur Pardi, Joon-Hwa Lee, Fiona Jucker, Nicole K. Kruse
10:00 AM		Intermission
10:15 AM	28	Computational prediction of the sequence specificity and binding energy of protein-RNA complexes Gabriele Varani, Timothy Robertson, Suxin Zheng, Yu Chen
10:45 AM	29	Dynamics of the assembling ribosome James R. Williamson
11:15 AM	30	U1A-RNA Complex formation: Insights from combining experimental and computational approaches Anne M. Baranger
11:45 AM	31	What can simulation tell us about protein-nucleic acid interactions? Successes, failures, and our approach to overcome the deficiencies Thomas E. Cheatham III

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