Aqueous hydration of nucleic acid constituents: Monte Carlo computer simulation studies.

abstract：:The unavailability of vaccine and medicines raised serious issues during COVID-19 pandemic and peoples from different parts of world relied on traditional medicine for their immediate recovery from COVID-19 and it found effective also. The current research aims to target COVID-19 immunological human host receptors i.e...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Noor H,Ikram A,Rathinavel T,Kumarasamy S,Nasir Iqbal M,Bashir Z

更新日期：2021-01-25 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：: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：:The aim of this study was to attempt to determine the extent to which the chemical shifts of the nonexchangeable base protons of a DNA helix depend upon the base sequence. We measured the proton NMR spectra of twelve decadeoxynucleotides in order to carry out a "statistical" treatment. In the helices, the chemical shi...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Shindo H,Okhubo S,Matsumoto U,Giessner-Prettre C,Zon G

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tris-intercalation of an acridine trimer into the self-complementary dodecanucleotide d(CTTCGCGCGAAG) has been studied, in solution, by means of 1H and 31P nuclear magnetic resonance. In a first step all the non-exchangeable protons (except H5', H5"), the imino protons and seven of the eleven phosphorus have been assi...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Laugaa P,Delepierre M,Dupraz B,Igolen J,Roques BP

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Culex quinquefasciatus Cqm1 protein acts as the receptor for Lysinibacillus sphaericus mosquito-larvicidal binary (BinAB) toxin that is used worldwide for mosquito control. We found amino acid transporter protein, rBAT, as phylogenetically closest Cqm1 homolog in humans. The present study reveals large evolutionary di...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Pandey B,Aarthy M,Sharma M,Singh SK,Kumar V

更新日期：2020-06-30 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：:Osmium tetroxide complexes with nitrogen ligands (Os,L) have been widely used as probes of the DNA structure. A monoclonal antibody OsBP7H8 against DNA adducts with Os,L was produced in mice. OsBP7H8 does not bind to proteins or total yeast RNA modified with Os,2,2'-bipyridine (bipy) nor to the unmodified nucleic acid...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Bůzek J,Kuderová A,Pexa T,Stanková V,Lauerová L,Palecek E

更新日期：1999-08-01 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：:Crystals of the small ribosomal subunit from Thermus thermophilus diffract to 3A and exhibit reasonable isomorphism and moderate resistance to irradiation. A 5A MIR map of this particle shows a similar shape to the part assigned to this particle within the cryo-EM reconstructions of the whole ribosome and contains reg...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Auerbach T,Pioletti M,Avila H,Anagnostopoulos K,Weinstein S,Franceschi F,Yonath A

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformational space available to GnRH and lGnRH-III was compared using 5.2 ns constant temperature and pressure molecular dynamics simulations with explicit TIP3P solvation and the AMBER v. 5.0 force field. Cluster analysis of both trajectories resulted in two groups of conformations. Results of free energy calcu...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Watts CR,Mezei M,Murphy RF,Lovas S

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed thermodynamic analysis of temperature-induced unfolding of mesophilic and thermophilic proteins. It was shown that the variability in protein thermostability associated with pH-dependent unfolding or linked to the substitution of amino acid residues on the protein surface is evidence of the governing role...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Khechinashvili NN,Capital Ka Cyrillicabanov AV,Kondratyev MS,Polozov RV

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The With-No-Lysine (WNK) kinase family plays a significant role in regulating cation-chloride cotransporters, blood pressure and body fluid homeostasis. Mutations in the gene of WNK family, especially in WNK1 and WNK4 are responsible for pseudohypoaldosteronism type II (PHAII), characterized by hypertension. The selec...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Jonniya NA,Kar P

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) is known to be a significantly effective strategy in cancer therapy. Here, pyrazolopyranopyrimidine derivatives were characterized as new Hsp90 inhibitors. The molecules' key structure (ZINC02819805) was determined by utilizing a pharmacophore model virtual screening workflo...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Abbasi M,Amanlou M,Aghaei M,Bakherad M,Doosti R,Sadeghi-Aliabadi H

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quasi-palindromic sequences (AT) X N12(AT) Y present in HS2 (hypersensitive site 2) of the human β-globin locus are known to be significantly associated with increased fetal hemoglobin (HbF) levels. High HbF levels in some adults ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Roy K,Mahendru S,Kukreti R,Kukreti S

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Owing to its negative regulatory role in insulin signaling, protein tyrosine phosphatase of leukocyte antigen-related protein (PTP-LAR) was widely thought as a potential drug target for diabetes. Now, it was urgent to search for potential LAR inhibitors targeting diabetes. Initially, the pharmacophore models of LAR in...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Du S,Yang B,Wang X,Li WY,Lu XH,Zheng ZH,Ma Y,Wang RL

更新日期：2020-09-01 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：: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：:The polymorphism exhibited by the mismatched octamer d(m5C-G-m5C-G-T-G-m5C-G), as a function of the temperature, DNA concentration and ionic strength, was investigated by means of NMR spectroscopy. It is shown that this partly self-complementary DNA fragment, under conditions of low DNA concentration (0.4 mM) and low ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Orbons LP,van der Marel GA,van Boom JH,Altona C

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydroxylated polybrominated diphenyl ethers (OH-PBDEs) are a class of toxic environmental pollutants that are persistent, bioaccumulative, and difficult to degrade. Their structure is very similar to the thyroid hormone (T4) and uses the body's thyroid transporter (TTR) binding to interfere with the endocrine balance,...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Wei Y,Yi Z,Xu J,Yang W,Yang L,Liu H

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of Δ- and Λ-[Ru(phen)2DPPZ]2+ (DPPZ = dipyrido[3,2-a:2', 3'-c]phenazine, phen = phenanthroline) with a G-quadruplex formed from 5'-G2T2G2TGTG2T2G2-3'(15-mer) was investigated. The well-known enhancement of luminescence intensity (the 'light-switch' effect) was observed for the [Ru(phen)2DPPZ]2+ complex...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Park JH,Lee HS,Jang MD,Han SW,Kim SK,Lee YA

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The subtype, 5-HT7R has been implicated in neurological disorders and presents itself as a promising target for antidepressant drugs. Design of targeted selective ligands, require a sound knowledge of 3D-receptor structure. In absence of receptor structure, structure-based design of targeted ligands relies on generati...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Jha P,Chaturvedi S,Swastika,Pal S,Jain N,Mishra AK

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural and thermodynamic characters of alpha-syn12 peptide in aqueous solution at different pH and temperatures have been investigated through temperature replica exchange molecular dynamics (T-REMD) simulations with GROMOS 43A1 force field. The two independent T-REMD simulations were completed at pH = 7.0 and...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Cao Z,Liu L,Wang J

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate the site-selective binding of erlotinib hydrochloride (ET), a targeted anticancer drug, to bovine serum albumin (BSA) through 1H NMR, spectroscopic, thermodynamic, and molecular modeling methods. The fluorescence quenching of BSA by ET was a result of the formation of BSA-E...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Liu Y,Chen M,Luo Z,Lin J,Song L

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, an attempt has been made to study the interaction of four taiwaniaquinoids with fat mass and obesity-associated protein (FTO) by UV-vis absorption, fluorescence spectroscopy, and molecular docking techniques. The results indicated that taiwaniaquinoids effectively quenched the intrinsic fluorescence of F...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Ren T,Zhang L,Wang J,Song C,Wang R,Chang J

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The worldwide expanding increment in cancer pervasiveness is disturbing and this disease ranks among the main causes of mortality in both developing and developed countries. Unfortunately, available treatment options come with serious side effects and do not guarantee complete success. Although numerous models have be...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Ojo OA,Aruleba RT,Adekiya TA,Sibuyi NRS,Ojo AB,Ajiboye BO,Oyinloye BE,Adeola HA,Fadaka AO

更新日期：2020-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:COVID-19 and its causative organism SARS-CoV2 that emerged from Wuhan city, China have paralyzed the world. With no clinically approved drugs, the global health system is struggling to find an effective treatment measure. At this crucial juncture, screening of plant-derived compounds may be an effective strategy to co...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Swargiary A,Mahmud S,Saleh MA

更新日期：2020-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between two proton pump inhibitors viz., omeprazole (OME) and esomeprazole (EPZ) with human serum albumin (HSA) was studied by fluorescence, absorption, circular dichroism (CD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), voltammetry, and molecular modeling approaches. The Stern-Volmer quenching c...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Pawar SK,Punith R,Naik RS,Seetharamappa J

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes, for the first time, the effect of three different sizes of silver nanoparticles on the binding of curcumin to lysozyme as examined by spectroscopic and zeta potential techniques at physiological conditions. The binding constants of curcumin to lysozyme in the presence of silver nanoparticles we...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kamshad M,Jahanshah Talab M,Beigoli S,Sharifirad A,Chamani J

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome bcc complex is important for ATP synthesis and cellular activity, as a crucial step in the terminal reduction of oxygen in aerobic electron transport chains. The b subunit of cytochrome bcc complex (QcrB) has been reported as a promising anti-tuberculosis target, with many novel anti-tuberculosis scaffolds ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Pan Z,Wang Y,Gu X,Wang J,Cheng M

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00