Three-quasiperiodicity, mutual correlations, ordering and long-range modulations in genomic nucleotide sequences for viruses.

abstract：:The hypothetical protection of genes from oxidative damage provided by the G-rich telomeric overhangs located at the end of chromosomes, which consist, in humans, of single strands of TTAGGG sequence repeats, is investigated here. First principle Moller-Plesset perturbation theory calculations reveal that the TTAGGG h...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Cauët E

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor suppressor proteins play a crucial role in cell cycle regulation. Retinoblastoma protein (pRB) is one among them which regulates G1-S transition by binding with transcription factors. The activity of pRB is deregulated by cyclin dependent kinases-mediated hyper-phosphorylation and also due to cancer-derived muta...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Ramakrishnan C,Subramanian V,Balamurugan K,Velmurugan D

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coumarin molecules have biological activities possessing lipid-controlling activity, anti-hepatitis C activity, anti-diabetic, anti-Parkinson activity, and anti-cancer activity. Here, we have presented an inclusive study on the interaction of 8-substituted-7-hydroxy coumarin derivatives (Umb-1/Umb-2) with α-1-glycopro...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Yeggoni DP,Manidhar DM,Suresh Reddy C,Subramanyam R

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An ab initio quantum-chemical study of stacked and hydrogen-bonded protonated cytosine dimer has been carried out. The calculations were made using the second-order Moller-Plesset perturbational method (MP2) with a medium-sized polarized set of atomic orbitals. H-bonded as well as stacked protonated base pairs are mor...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Sponer J,Leszczynski J,Vetterl V,Hobza P

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of two widely used polyphenols, curcumin and EGCG was investigated on the amyloid fibrillogenesis of the well-characterized model protein human lysozyme (HuL), associated with non-neuropathic systemic amyloidosis, towards exploring their efficacy as modulators of HuL amyloid aggregation and toxicity and unr...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Zaidi FK,Bhat R

更新日期：2020-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformation of the C-terminal octapeptide fragment of Substance P (SP4-11, Pro-Gln-Gln-Phe-Phe-Gly-Leu-Met-NH2) has been investigated by 2D-NMR and MD methods. The octapeptide exists in a blend of conformations. The molecule seems to shuttle between conformations with gamma-bends either at Phe5 or Gly6 or Gln3 or...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Coutinho E,Kamath S,Saran A,Srivastava S

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma. ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kovalchuk MV,Boikova AS,Dyakova YA,Ilina KB,Konarev PV,Kryukova AE,Marchenkova MA,Pisarevsky YV,Timofeev VI

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV protease inhibitors (PIs) approved by the FDA (US Food and Drug Administration) are a major class of antiretroviral. HIV-2 protease (PR2) is naturally resistant to most of them as PIs were designed for HIV-1 protease (PR1). In this study, we explored the impact of amino-acid substitutions between PR1 and PR2 on th...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Triki D,Kermarrec M,Visseaux B,Descamps D,Flatters D,Camproux AC,Regad L

更新日期：2020-10-01 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：:The nature of the H-bonds between the human protein HLA-DR1 (DRB*0101) and the hemagglutinin peptide HA306-318 has been studied using the Quantum Theory of Atoms in Molecules for the first time. We have found four H-bond groups: one conventional CO··HN bond group and three nonconventional CO··HC, π··HC involving aroma...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Aray Y,Aguilera-García R,Izquierdo DR

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of various structures by self-assembling single stranded DNA molecules is a widely used technology in the filed of DNA nanotechnology. Base sequences of single strands do predict the shape of the resulting nanostructure. Therefore, sequence design is crucial for the successful structure fabrication. This pa...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Seiffert J,Huhle A

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying and predicting the structural characteristics of novel repeats throughout the genome can lend insight into biological function. Specific repeats are believed to have biological significance as a function of their distribution patterns. We have developed 'GenomeMark,' a computer program that detects and sta...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Fadiel A,Eichenbaum KD,Hamza A

更新日期：2006-02-01 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 pandemic coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) presents a great threat to public health. Currently, no potent medicine is available to treat COVID-19. Quest for new drugs especially from natural plant sources is an area of immense potential. The curre...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Wahedi HM,Ahmad S,Abbasi SW

更新日期：2020-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient interactions between cancer stem cells and components of the tumor microenvironment initiate various signaling pathways crucial for carcinogenesis. Predominant hyaluronan (HA) receptor, CD44 is structurally and functionally one of the most variable cell surface receptors having the potential to generate a di...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Patel S,Shaikh F,Devaraji V,Radadiya A,Shah K,Shah A,Rawal R

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The empirical potential including the intra- and intermolecular energy terms was used to study the interaction of L-Lysine-L-Alanine-L-Alanine Tripeptide with four models of B-DNA with different compositions. On the basis of a detailed search of the respective potential energy surface, it was found that the peptide is...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Vondrásek J,Sponar J,Hobza P

更新日期：1994-02-01 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：:Monte-Carlo simulation of poly(dA).poly(dT) hydration by 30 water molecules per nucleotide pair has been performed. Two B-family conformations, both with a 36 degrees helical twist but with different minor groove widths, were considered. One conformation is Arnott's standard B form, the other one is specific for poly(...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Poltev VI,Teplukhin AV,Chuprina VP

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the anticancer compounds from tormentic acid derivatives, a quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) model was developed by the multiple linear regression methods. The developed QSAR model yielded a high activity-descriptors relationship accuracy of 94% referred by regression coefficient (r2 = .9...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Alam S,Khan F

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abstract Although the recent structural studies on polymerases have brought new insights on polymerase fidelity, the role of DNA sequence and structure is not well understood. Here, the analysis of the crystal structures of hotspots for polymerase slippage shows that, in the B- form, these sequences share common str...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Timsit Y

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haloxyfop was reported to exhibit inhibition effect targeting Mycobacterium tuberculosis and pathogenic parasites. To pave its way for drug development, more research is required to determine the affinities interacting with biological receptors in vivo. In this work, the interactions of Haloxyfop with two model transp...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Wang L,Zhang L,Feng RR,Dong X,Lu HZ,Zhang JJ

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To overcome the obstacle of anti-cancer therapy significant attention has been drawn for improving drug delivery system. Since recent past, different approaches were applied using synthetic or natural derivatives for improving efficacy of anti-cancer drugs in cancer therapeutics. Gallic acid (GA) is a natural polyphen...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Priyadarshi K,Shirsath K,Waghela NB,Sharma A,Kumar A,Pathak C

更新日期：2020-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphatic filariasis is a debilitating vector borne parasitic disease that infects human lymphatic system by nematode Brugia malayi. Currently available anti-filarial drugs are effective only on the larval stages of parasite. So far, no effective drugs are available for humans to treat filarial infections. In this reg...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Amala M,Rajamanikandan S,Prabhu D,Surekha K,Jeyakanthan J

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stereochemical effects of methylphosphonate (MP) in B-DNA and Z-DNA duplexes are studied through molecular mechanics approach. Duplexes of different lengths, tetramers, hexamers, dodecamers are examined to assess the interstrand and intrastrand electrostatic effects due to MPs vis-a-vis phosphates. A variety of models...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Swarnalatha Y,Yathindra N

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MSCRAMMs (microbial surface components recognizing adhesive matrix molecules) are modular proteins covalently anchored in the bacterial cell wall of many Gram-positive bacteria. The N-terminal region of most MSCRAMMs carries the ligand-binding domains (A region) which specifically target the host extracellular matrix ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Jemima Beulin DS,Ponnuraj K

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The novel SARS-CoV-2 is the etiological agent causing the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which continues to become an inevitable pandemic outbreak. Over a short span of time, the structures of therapeutic target proteins for SARS-CoV-2 were identified based on the homology modelled structure of similar virus, SA...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Rao P,Shukla A,Parmar P,Rawal RM,Patel BV,Saraf M,Goswami D

更新日期：2020-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The efforts to limit the spread of the tuberculosis epidemic have been challenged by the rise of drug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the causative agent of tuberculosis. It is critical to discover new chemical scaffolds acting on novel or unexploited targets to beat this drug-resistant pathogen...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Pandey P,Chatterjee S,Berida T,Doerksen RJ,Roy S

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:COVID-19 is a novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus. Currently, there is no effective treatment and vaccines seem to be the solution in the future. Virtual screening of potential drugs against the S protein of severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has provided small molecular comp...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Yepes-Pérez AF,Herrera-Calderon O,Quintero-Saumeth J

更新日期：2020-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Minidumbbell (MDB) is a newly found non-B DNA structure formed by short single-strand sequences. Up to now, three MDBs have been reported to form at neutral pH by sequences containing two repeats of TTTA, CCTG and CTTG. Among them, the thermodynamically less stable TTTA and CCTG MDBs have been proposed to be the struc...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Guo P,Lam SL

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first fully energy-minimized structures for a series of structurally related metal complexes of the important mammalian metal binding protein metallothionein are described. The structures were calculated based on structural information obtained from existing spectroscopic and crystallographic data, and minimized u...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Fowle DA,Stillman MJ

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00