Variability analysis of HIV-1 gp120 V3 region: III. Distinctions between various sets of peptide fragments derived from the sequences belonging to different HIV-1 taxons.

abstract：:Adenosine receptors (ARs) belong to family A of GPCRs that are involved in many diseases, including cerebral and cardiac ischemic diseases, immune and inflammatory disorders, etc. Thus, they represent important therapeutic targets to treat these conditions. Computational techniques such as molecular dynamics (MD) simu...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Martínez-Archundia M,Correa-Basurto J,Montaño S,Rosas-Trigueros JL

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The drug design and discovery of lipid modulators is very demanding as no new molecule has entered into the market in the last 35 years. Cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) is a promising target as lipid modulators. Inhibition of the CETP enzyme reduces the risk of cardiovascular events. The first CETP inhibitor...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Amin SA,Adhikari N,Gayen S,Jha T

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is an ongoing global health emergency. Repurposing of approved pharmaceutical drugs for COVID-19 treatment represents an attractive approach to quickly identify promising drug candidates. SARS-CoV-2 main protease...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Mandour YM,Zlotos DP,Alaraby Salem M

更新日期：2020-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In negatively supercoiled DNA molecules some inverted repeat sequences adopt a perturbed conformation which is characterised by the following properties. They are centrally hypersensitive to single-strand-specific nucleases such as S1, and to a much lower extent the flanking regions may also be sensitive. They are als...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Lilley DM,Hallam LR

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropomyosin receptor kinase A (Trk A) is a receptor tyrosine kinase activated by nerve growth factor (NGF). TrkA plays an important role in pain sensation, which leads to significant interest in the development of small molecule inhibitors of TrkA. However, TrkA and the other two highly homologous isoforms, TrkB and T...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Wu X,Li Q,Wan S,Zhang J

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The model of spatial structure for the principal neutralizing determinant (PND) of the HIV-1 envelope protein gp120 is proposed in terms of two-dimensional nuclear Overhauser effect (NOE) spectroscopy data. To build the model, the NMR-based theoretical conformational analysis of synthetic PND peptides of length 40, 24...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Andrianov AM

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleoprotein (NP) binds the viral RNA genome as oligomers assembled with the polymerase in a ribonucleoprotein complex required for transcription and replication of influenza A virus. Novel antiviral candidates targeting the nucleoprotein either induced higher order oligomers or reduced NP oligomerization by targ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Tarus B,Bertrand H,Zedda G,Di Primo C,Quideau S,Slama-Schwok A

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae hemolysin (HlyA) is a 65 kDa pore-forming toxin which causes lysis of target eukaryotic cells by forming heptameric channels in the plasma membrane. Deletion of the 15 kDa C-terminus β-prism carbohydrate-binding domain generates a 50 kDa truncated variant (HlyA50) with 1000-fold-reduced pore-forming ac...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Dutta S,Banerjee KK,Ghosh AN

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last few years, some novel researches in the field of medical science made a tendency to have a therapy without any complications or side-effects of the disease with the aid of prognosis about the behaviors of the substructure living biological cell. Regarding this issue, nonlinear frequency characteristics o...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Najaafi N,Jamali M,Habibi M,Sadeghi S,Jung DW,Nabipour N

更新日期：2020-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Abstract The stacking preference of a DNA Four-Way junction (4H), with a novel junction sequence, has been determined in the presence of magnesium ions as well as in the presence of cobalt(III)hexammine ions by means of NMR spectroscopy. In both cases this 4H has a strong preference (>80%) to fold in an A/D-stacked ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： van Buuren BN,Schleucher J,Wijmenga SS

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Donepezil is an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor (AChEI) in use to treat symptomatic patients of mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD). Ferritin is an iron protein associated with storage and sequestration of excess ferrous iron in a way maintaining proper function of cellular processes and plays a key role in AD si...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Shahwan M,Khan MS,Husain FM,Shamsi A

更新日期：2020-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The class of ß-lactam antibiotics has proven highly efficient in targeting bacterial penicillin-binding proteins (PBP) leading to the blocking of the bacterial cell wall synthesis. However, the benefit of these drugs is limited because of bacterial resistance mechanisms; the most widespread resistance involves ß-lacta...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Mbaye MN,Gilis D,Rooman M

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sickle cell disease is caused by the amino acid substitution of glutamic acid to valine, which leads to the polymerization of deoxygenated sickle hemoglobin (HbS) into long strands. These strands are responsible for the sickling of red blood cells (RBCs), making blood hyper-coagulable leading to an increased chance of...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Yesudasan S,Douglas SA,Platt MO,Wang X,Averett RD

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:COVID-19 is an infectious pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The critical components of SARS-CoV-2 are the spike protein (S-protein) and the main protease (Mpro). Mpro is required for the maturation of the various polyproteins involved in replication and transcription. S-protein helps the SARS-CoV-2 to enter the...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Mondal P,Natesh J,Abdul Salam AA,Thiyagarajan S,Meeran SM

更新日期：2020-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The fragile X triplet repeats, (GCC)n x (GGC)n are located at the 5' untranslated region of the FMR-1 gene. Inordinate repeat expansion and hyper-methylation of the CpG islands inside the repeat lead to the suppression of the FMR-1 gene and the subsequent onset and progression of the disease. Previously, we have shown...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Chen X,Mariappan SV,Moyzis RK,Bradbury EM,Gupta G

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The InhA inhibitors play key role in mycolic acid synthesis by preventing the fatty acid biosynthesis pathway. In this present article, Pharmacophore modelling and molecular docking study followed by in silico virtual screening could be considered as effective strategy to identify newer enoyl-ACP reductase inhibitors....

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Modi P,Patel S,Chhabria MT

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug efflux mechanism is the main cause of intrinsic drug resistance in bacteria. Mycobacterium multidrug resistant (MMR) protein belongs to small multidrug resistant family proteins (SMR), causing multidrug resistance to proton (H(+))-linked lipophilic cationic drug efflux across the cell membrane. In the presen...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Malkhed V,Mustyala KK,Potlapally SR,Vuruputuri U

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein folding remains an unsolved problem as main-chain, side-chain, and solvent interactions remain entangled and have been hard to resolve. Polyalanines are promising models to analyze protein folding initiation and propagation structurally as well as energetically. In the present work, the effect of chain-length ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Goyal B,Kumar A,Srivastava KR,Durani S

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Triple helices with G*G.C and A*A.T base triplets with third GA strands either parallel or antiparallel with respect to the homologous duplex strand have been formed in presence of Na (+) or Mg(2+) counterions. Antiparallel triplexes are more stable and can be obtained even in presence of only monovalent Na(+) counter...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Liquier J,Geinguenaud F,Huynh-Dinh T,Gouyette C,Khomyakova E,Taillandier E

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigating the behaviour of bio-molecules through computational mutagenesis is gaining interest to facilitate the development of new therapeutic solutions for infectious diseases. The antigenetically variant genotypes of foot and mouth disease virus (FMDV) and their subsequent infections are challenging to tackle w...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Sahu TK,Pradhan D,Rao AR,Jena L

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cromolyn sodium (CS), an anti-inflammatory drug is used in the treatment of allergic disorders. Bovine serum albumin (BSA) a blood plasma protein is used as a model protein for studying protein folding and ligand binding mechanism as it is the main transporter protein which decides the disposition and pharmacodynamics...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Yasmeen S,Riyazuddeen,Khatun S,Abul Qais F

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria remains one of the most important infectious diseases in the world. Plasmodial cysteine proteases are proposed to be promising targets for novel antimalarial drug design. Vivapain-2 and vivapain-3 are cysteine proteases from Plasmodium vivax and apparent orthologs of falcipain-2 and falcipain-3 from Plasmodium...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Desai PV,Avery MA

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the Tetrahymena thermophila rRNA IVS sequence with the aim of obtaining a model of the structure characterized by the bases proximity of the self-reactions sites. The considered sequence kept up those fragments essential for its catalytic activity as demonstrated by deletion mutants. The first step was the ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Benedetti G,Morosetti S

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase IV (CaMKIV) is a multifunctional enzyme which belongs to the Ser/Thr kinase family. CaMKIV plays important role in varieties of biological processes such as gene expression regulation, memory consolidation, bone growth, T-cell maturation, sperm motility, regulation of microt...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Naz H,Shahbaaz M,Haque MA,Bisetty K,Islam A,Ahmad F,Hassan MI

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiovascular diseases are the world's leading cause of death. Hypertension is an important risk factor for cardiovascular and renal diseases. Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) can be a possible therapeutic target for managing angiotensin I conversion to angiotensin II and ultimately controlling hypertension. Indol...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Sahin K

更新日期：2020-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The design and DNA binding activity of beta-structure-forming peptides and netropsin-peptide conjugates are reported. It is found that a pair of peptides-S,S'-bis(Lys-Gly-Val-Cys-Val-NH-NH-Dns)-bridged by an S-S bond binds at least 10 times more strongly to poly(dG).poly(dC) than to poly(dA).poly(dT). This peptide can...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Nikolaev VA,Grokhovsky SL,Surovaya AN,Leinsoo TA,Sidorova NYu,Zasedatelev AS,Zhuze AL,Strahan GA,Shafer RH,Gursky GV

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Base sequence effects within double stranded RNA oligomers of A and Z conformations have been studied by molecular modeling using a methodological approach specifically adapted to nucleic acids. Calculations on symmetric oligomers having homonucleotide or dinucleotide repeating base sequences show that sequence change...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Hartmann B,Lavery R

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusarium solani causes a wide variety of diseases in plants. Polyamine biosynthesis is responsible for the growth and pathogenicity of the fungus. The initial step of this pathway involves the decarboxylation of ornithine to putrescine, and is catalyzed by the enzyme ornithine decarboxylase (ODC). Inhibiting this proc...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Sanchita,Chauhan R,Soni G,Sudhamalla B,Sharma A

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the refined molecular structure of the Gene 5 DNA Binding Protein (G5BP) and the mechanism of DNA binding deduced from a variety of experimental techniques (G. D. Brayer and A. McPherson, J. Mol. Biol. 169, 565, 1983; G. D. Brayer and A. McPherson, Biochemistry 23, 340, 1984), we have modeled the contiguous, lin...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Brayer G,McPherson A

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The viral cathepsin from Bombyx mori Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus (BmNPV-Cath) is a broad-spectrum protease that participates in the horizontal transmission of this virus in silkworm by facilitating solubilization of the integument of infected caterpillars. When a B. mori farm is attacked by BmNPV, there are significant...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Sérgio Alves Bueno P,Carina Biavatti D,Sandro Gularte Chiarello A,Aureliana Fassina V,Aparecida Fernandez M,Augusto Vicente Seixas F

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00