Functionalization of a protein surface with per-O-methylated β-cyclodextrin.

abstract：:Vibrational spectroscopy coupled with thermogravimetry (TG) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) was used to characterize racemic propanoic acid, 2-methyl-5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-6-(methylamino)-1,2-naphthalenediyl ester hydrochloride (CHF-1035), which is a new DA2 dopaminergic receptor/alpha2 agonist and beta block...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Taddei P,Torreggiani A,Fini G

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Collagen is a natural protein, which is used as a vital biomaterial in tissue engineering. The major concern about native collagen is lack of its thermal stability and weak resistance to proteolytic degradation. In this scenario, the crosslinking compounds used for stabilization of collagen are mostly of chemical natu...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Usharani N,Jayakumar GC,Kanth SV,Rao JR

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study a novel general approach is presented that allows for a straightforward design of receptor binding assays. This principle of a receptor binding assay is applied to the estrogen receptor, which is important in the management of breast cancer and for the estimation of the estrogenic potency of chemicals in...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Christoph S,Meyer-Almes FJ

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intermolecular NOE experiments have been used to explore interactions of water and ethanol molecules in 35% ethanol/65% water (v/v) with the peptide Trp-cage at temperatures from 5 to 25 degrees C. Magnetic dipole-dipole cross-relaxation terms sigma(HH) (NOE) and sigma(HH) (ROE) for interaction of solvent components w...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Neuman RC Jr,Gerig JT

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The currently understood function for Ras in signal transduction is in mediating the transmission of signals from external growth factors to the cell nucleus. Mutated forms of this GTP-binding protein are found in 30% of human cancers with particularly high prevalence in colon and pancreatic carcinomas. These mutation...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Qian Y,Sebti SM,Hamilton AD

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aromatic stacking and hydrogen bonding between nucleobases are two of the key interactions responsible for stabilization of DNA double-helical structures. The present work aims at defining the specific contributions of these interactions to the stability of individual base pairs in DNA. The two DNA double helices inve...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Every AE,Russu IM

更新日期：2007-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the use of a new Monte Carlo (MC) chain generation algorithm, introduced by T. Garel and H. Orland [(1990) Journal of Physics A, Vol. 23, pp. L621-L626], for examining the thermodynamics of protein folding transitions and for generating candidate C(alpha) backbone structures as starting points for a de...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Solomon JE,Liney D

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions between biological macromolecules have characteristic values of affinity and specificity that are set according to the biological function that is served by the interaction in the organism. Here we examine the molecular mechanisms that are used to achieve the required values of affinity and specificity in...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Szwajkajzer D,Carey J

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hinge region links the antigen binding Fab part to the constant Fc domain in immunoglobulins. For the hinge peptide derivative [AcThr(OtBu)-Cys-Pro-Pro-Cys-Pro-Ala-ProNH2]2 the assignment of the 1H and 13C resonances was achieved by two-dimensional nmr techniques: total correlation spectroscopy (TOCSY), nuclear Ov...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Kessler H,Mronga S,Müller G,Moroder L,Huber R

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The HPLC retention behavior of three complete single methionine and methionine sulfoxide replacement sets of two 18-mer model peptides and neuropeptide Y (NPY) were investigated. All peptides were prepared by multiple solid-phase peptide synthesis. Plotting the retention time differences between methionine and methion...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Rothemund S,Krause E,Beyermann M,Bienert M,Sykes BD,Sönnichsen FD

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although several models have been proposed for the interaction of collagen with gelatinase-A (matrix metalloproteinases-2 (MMP-2)), the extensive role of each domain of gelatinase A in hydrolyzing the collagens with and without interruptions is still elusive. Molecular docking, molecular dynamics (MD) simulation, norm...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Azhagiya Singam ER,Rajapandian V,Subramanian V

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA sequences d-TGAGGAAAGAAGGT (a 14-mer) and d-CTCCTTTCTTCC (a 12-mer) are complementary in parallel orientation forming either Donohue (reverse Watson-Crick) base pairing at neutral pH or Hoogsteen base pairing at slightly acidic pH. The structure of the complex formed by dissolving the two strands in equimolar rati...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Bhaumik SR,Chary KV,Govil G,Liu K,Miles HT

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The indirect solvent-induced effect on the free energy of binding of biopolymers is examined within the framework of classical statistical mechanics. We focus specifically on the role of the solute-solvent hydrogen bonding. In particular, we have estimated the first order solvent effect on the indirect interaction bet...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Ben-Naim A,Ting KL,Jernigan RL

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed the CD and uv absorption spectra of 5S RNA from Escherichia coli using the method developed in the preceding paper. The analysis of spectra of 5S RNA at 20 degrees C in 0.1M NaClO4, 2.5 mM Na+ (phosphate), pH 7.0, and 0.5 mM MgSO4 gave 7 +/- 3.6 A.U base pairs, 25 +/- 3.6 G.C base pairs, and 7.5 +/- 3.6 G....

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Johnson KH,Gray DM

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the structural analysis of membrane proteins is advancing, an understanding of the basic principles that underlie their folding and assembly remains limited because of the high insolubility intrinsic to these molecules and concomitant challenges in obtaining crystals. Fortunately, from an experimental standpo...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Rath A,Johnson RM,Deber CM

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent results from molecular dynamics (MD) simulations on hydration of DNA with respect to conformation are reviewed and compared with experimental data. MD simulations of explicit solvent around DNA can now give a detailed model of DNA that not only matches well with the experimental data but provides additional ins...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Feig M,Pettitt BM

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of catalytically active DNA sequences have expanded considerably since the first artificial deoxyribozyme was identified in 1994. Nevertheless, the field is still quite young, and advances in both fundamental understanding and practical applications of deoxyribozymes are still developing. Deoxyribozymes that e...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Höbartner C,Silverman SK

更新日期：2007-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The various motifs of RNA molecules are closely related to their structural and functional properties. To better understand the nature and distributions of such structural motifs (i.e., paired and unpaired bases in stems, junctions, hairpin loops, bulges, and internal loops) and uncover characteristic features, we ana...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Zorn J,Gan HH,Shiffeldrim N,Schlick T

更新日期：2004-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:For mimicking macromolecular crowding of DNA quadruplexes, various crowding agents have been used, typically PEG, with quadruplexes of micromolar strand concentrations. Thermal and thermodynamic stabilities of these quadruplexes increased with the concentration of the agents, the rise depended on the crowder used. A d...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Kejnovská I,Vorlíčková M,Brázdová M,Sagi J

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on an unrestrained molecular dynamics simulation of the flavin mononucleotide (FMN)-RNA aptamer. The simulated average structure maintains both cross-strand and intermolecular FMN-RNA nuclear Overhauser effects from the nmr experiments and has all qualitative features of the nmr structure including the G10-U...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Schneider C,Sühnel J

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemical synthesis and x-ray crystal structure analysis of a model peptide incorporating a conformationally adaptable unsubstituted beta-Ala residue: Boc-beta-Ala-Acc6-OCH3 (C16H28N2O5, molecular weight = 328.41; 1) has been described. The peptide crystallized in the space group P2(1)2(1)2(1) a = 8.537 (3), b = 8....

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Thakur AK,Kishore R

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptides based on 2-amino-2,3-dihydro-1H-cyclopenta[b]anthracene-2-carboxylic acid (antAib), a fluorescent, achiral, alpha-amino acid belonging to the class of C(i) (alpha)-->C(i) (alpha) cyclized, C(alpha,alpha)-disubstituted glycines, combined with L-Ala, up to the hexamer level, were synthesized by solution methods...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Wright K,Lohier JF,Wakselman M,Mazaleyrat JP,Peggion C,Formaggio F,Toniolo C

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rheological characteristics of gastric and duodenal mucin solutions, the building blocks of the mucus layer that covers the epithelia of the two organs, were investigated using particle tracking microrheology. We used biochemically well characterized purified porcine mucins (MUC5AC and MUC2) as models for human mu...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Georgiades P,Pudney PD,Thornton DJ,Waigh TA

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the most exciting functional features of G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) that are coming into focus lately are those relating to the role and structural characteristics of their oligomerization (mostly homo- and heterodimers). The structural underpinnings of these novel functional insights are still not clea...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Filizola M,Weinstein H

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptide-polysaccharide matrices can mimic extracellular matrix structure and function and are useful for tissue and cell engineering. The spacer between the peptide and the polysaccharide is important for both peptide conformation and the interaction between the peptide and receptors. Here, the effect of a spacer on t...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Kumai J,Hozumi K,Yamada Y,Katagiri F,Kikkawa Y,Nomizu M

更新日期：2016-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribonuclease A is the archetype of a functionally diverse superfamily of vertebrate-specific ribonucleases. Inhibitors of its action have potential use in the elucidation of the in vivo roles of these enzymes and in the treatment of pathologies associated therewith. Derivatives of adenosine 5'-pyrophosphate are the mo...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Holloway DE,Chavali GB,Leonidas DD,Baker MD,Acharya KR

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gel electrophoresis of spherical particles with a radius above 0.2 micron has not been reported yet. In the present study, video phase-contrast light microscopy is used to observe the motion of individual latex spheres, 0.52 micron in radius, during electrophoresis in 0.1% agarose gels. At 2 V/cm, the spheres init...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Griess GA,Serwer P

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeting double-stranded DNA with homopyrimidine PNAs results in strand displacement complexes PNA/DNA/PNA rather than PNA/DNA/DNA triplex structures. Not much is known about the binding properties of DNA-PNA chimeras. A 16-mer 5'-DNA-3'-p-(N)PNA(C) has been investigated for its ability to hybridize a complementary d...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Petraccone L,Erra E,Messere A,Montesarchio D,Piccialli G,De Napoli L,Barone G,Giancola C

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disintegrins, small molecular weight proteins contained in the venom of vipers and rattlesnakes, are high-affinity and selectivity integrin antagonists. Disintegrins inhibitory epitope mainly consists in a tripeptide sequence localized in a mobile loop protruding from the protein core. RTS and/or KTS tripeptide charac...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Calvanese L,Falcigno L,D'Auria G

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The linear viscoelastic and rheological properties of high molecular weight ovine submaxillary mucin (OSM) solution have been investigated in terms of the Newtonian steady-flow viscosity [eta(gamma)], the complex oscillatory viscosity [eta*(omega)], and the storage and loss shear moduli [G'(omega) and G"(omega)]. It w...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Soby LM,Jamieson AM,Blackwell J,Jentoft N

更新日期：1990-08-15 00:00:00