Determination of the complete correlation between the sugar ring puckers and 5'-exocyclic group rotamers in conformationally-flexible nucleic acid components from NMR study.

abstract：:Propanidid is an intravenous anesthetic with transient action and rapid recovery features, but it is clinically unacceptable due to its side effects. AZD-3043, an analog of propanidid with the methoxy group substituted by the ethoxy group, has become the focus of recent development efforts. Although propanidid and AZD...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Wang S,Liu Q,Li X,Zhao X,Qiu L,Lin J

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:About one-third of the existing proteins require metal ions as cofactors for their catalytic activities and structural complexities. While many of them bind only to a specific metal, others bind to multiple (different) metal ions. However, the exact mechanism of their metal preference has not been deduced to clarity. ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Gogoi P,Chandravanshi M,Mandal SK,Srivastava A,Kanaujia SP

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of gene expression in eukaryotes involves a complex assembly of DNA recognition sequence elements and their respective protein factors. The upstream promoter/enhancer sequences are position and orientation independent. Despite their variable distances from the TATA box and transcription start site, interact...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Nussinov R

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:K562 cells are erythroleukemic cells derived from a chronic myeloid leukemia patient in blast crisis. Comparison of the genome from K562 cells and normal human genome has been very useful strategy, in uncovering eight genes, implicated in acute myeloid leukemia (AML). These genes carry mutations in K562 genome and the...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Ghosh D,Saha C,Hossain M,Dey SK,Kumar GS

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel Coronavirus or SARS-CoV-2 has received worldwide attention due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which originated in Wuhan, China leading to thousands of deaths to date. The SARS-CoV-2 Spike glycoprotein protein is one of the main focus of COVID-19 related research as it is a structural protein that facilitates its atta...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Ahamad S,Kanipakam H,Gupta D

更新日期：2020-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:MutSα is the most abundant mismatch-binding factor of human DNA mismatch repair (MMR) proteins. MMR maintains genetic stability by recognizing and repairing DNA defects. Failure to accomplish their function may lead to cancer. In addition, MutSα recognizes at least some types of DNA damage making it a target for antic...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Negureanu L,Salsbury FR Jr

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

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

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Dubey S,Kallubai M,Subramanyam R

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under negative superhelical stress, long (TG)n containing repeats experience a stepwise multiple B-Z transitions. We have investigated the effect of the plasmid size on this transitional behavior. A 66-bp (TG)n containing repeat from the 5'-untranscribed region of mouse ribosomal DNA was inserted in a 3-kb, a 6.5-kb a...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Albert AC,Leng M,Rahmouni AR

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biomembranes and lipid systems are rich in unsaturated lipid components and are subject to photo-induced lipid peroxidation. The peroxidized lipid products in cellular systems are known to affect the structural organization and function of the biomembrane. We employed molecular dynamics simulations to study the effect...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kumar S,Rana R,Yadav DK

更新日期：2020-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Two 4-ns molecular dynamics simulations of calcium loaded calmodulin in solution have been performed, using both standard nonbonded cutoffs and Ewald summation to treat electrostatic interactions. Our simulation results are generally consistent with solution experimental studies of calmodulin structure and dynamics, i...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Yang C,Jas GS,Kuczera K

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hinge-bending in T4 lysozyme has been inferred from single amino acid mutant crystalline allomorphs by Matthews and coworkers. This raises an important question: are the different conformers in the unit cell artifacts of crystal packing forces, or do they represent different solution state structures? The objective of...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Arnold GE,Manchester JI,Townsend BD,Ornstein RL

更新日期：1994-10-01 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：:Human β-defensin-3 (HβD-3) is an endogenous antimicrobial peptide with potent and broad killing activity against various microorganisms, and thus, it is an attractive candidate for the development of novel peptide antibiotics, but its antimicrobial mechanism remains elusive. To characterize the mechanism, we used mult...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Zhao X,Yu H,Yang L,Li Q,Huang X

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enumerating procedure for symbol sequences is proposed. Relationship between Hamming distance for symbol sequences and Euclidean distance for corresponding enumerations is established, and more universal Hamming-transformed Euclidean measure is constructed. A distribution function of amino acid substitutions and some ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Shchelkanov MYu,Yudin AN,Antonov AV,Starikov NS,Vedenov AA,Karamov EV

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review, the loading efficacies of retinoids with milk proteins are investigated. It has been shown that milk proteins β-lactoglobulin, α-, and β-caseins bind retinol and retinoic acid via hydrophobic, hydrophilic, and H-bonding contacts causing minor alterations of protein secondary structure. Hydrophobic cont...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Agudelo D,Bourassa P,Bariyanga J,Tajmir-Riahi HA

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modelling procedure has been utilized to obtain a preliminary three-dimensional structural model for the bacteriophage IKe DNA binding protein (IKe-DBP) based on the known high resolution X-ray diffraction structure of a functionally related protein (G5BP) from bacteriophage fd. The degree of structural homology obs...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Brayer GD

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation of intramolecular tetraplex structures by the thrombin-binding DNA aptamer (TBA) in the presence of K(+), Pb(2+), Ba(2+), Sr(2+) and Mn(2+) has been studied by vibrational spectroscopy. All tetraplex structures contain G-G Hoogsteen type base pairing, both C2'endo/anti and C2'endo/syn deoxyguanosine glycosid...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Mondragon-Sanchez JA,Liquier J,Shafer RH,Taillandier E

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All major suggestions about the nucleosome positioning sequence pattern(s) are overviewed. Two basic binary periodical patterns are well established: in purine/pyrimidine alphabet - YRRRRRYYYYYR and in strong/weak alphabet -SWWWWWSSSSSW. Their merger in four-letter alphabet sequence coincides with first ever complete ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Trifonov EN

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study employed the spectroscopic techniques, i.e. fluorescence, and circular dichroism (CD) and the molecular docking approach to investigate the mechanism of interaction of a potent anticancer glucosinolate, sinigrin (SIN), with bovine serum albumin (BSA). SIN binding to BSA resulted in the quenching of i...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Awasthi S,Saraswathi NT

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solvent properties of aqueous media (dipolarity/polarizability, hydrogen bond donor acidity, and hydrogen bond acceptor basicity) were measured in the coexisting phases of Dextran-PEG aqueous two-phase systems (ATPSs) containing .5 and 2.0 M urea. The differences between the electrostatic and hydrophobic properties of...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Ferreira LA,Povarova OI,Stepanenko OV,Sulatskaya AI,Madeira PP,Kuznetsova IM,Turoverov KK,Uversky VN,Zaslavsky BY

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) is an enzyme that initiates polyamine synthesis in human. Polyamines play key roles in cell-cell adhesion, cell motility and cell cycle regulation. Higher synthesis of polyamines also occurs in rapidly proliferating cancer cells are mediated by ODC. As per earlier studies, di-flouro-methy...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Sivashanmugam M,K N S,V U

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The infrared absorption and 1H nuclear magnetic resonance analyses of chloroform solutions of the terminally-blocked segment corresponding to the 2-9 sequence of emerimicins III and IV, -(Aib)3-L-Val-Gly-L-Leu-(Aib)2-, are consistent with the presence of a 3(10)-helical structure of high thermal stability. The crystal...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Toniolo C,Bonora GM,Bavoso A,Benedetti E,di Blasio B,Pavone V,Pedone C

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A protein with the reversed direction of its polypeptide chain, retro-SHH, was analyzed by several spectroscopic techniques including circular dichroism and high-resolution NMR to understand its solution structure and structural consequences of interaction with the micelles formed by the zwitterionic detergent dodecyl...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kutyshenko VP,Prokhorov DA,Molochkov NV,Sharapov MG,Kolesnikov I,Uversky VN

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abstract Neuropeptide Y (NPY), receptors belong to the G-protein coupled receptor superfamily. NPY mediates several physiological responses, such as blood pressure, food intake, sedation. These actions of NPY are mediated by six receptor subtypes denoted as Y(1)-Y(5) and y(6). Modeling of receptor subtypes and bindi...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Jois SD,Nagarajarao LM,Prabhakaran M,Balasubramaniam A

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analogues of purine bases are highly relevant in the biological context and have been implicated as drug molecules for therapy against a number of diseases. Additionally, these molecules have been implicated to have a role in the prebiotic RNA world. However, experimental data on the structures of these molecules in a...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Gogia S,Puranik M

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:The superoxide-generating activity of Nox5 is regulated by Ca2+ flux, primarily through its self-contained calcium binding domain (EFD). Upon Ca2+ binding, Nox5's EFD undergoes a conformational change that exposes its buried hydrophobic residues. Previously, we determined the Ca2+ binding constants of the N-terminal h...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Wei CC,Fabry E,Hay E,Lloyd L,Kaufman N,Yang YP,Stuehr DJ

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed molecular dynamics simulations for various oligomers with different beta-sheet conformations consisting of alpha-Synuclein 71-82 residues using an all atom force field and explicit water model. Tetramers of antiparallel beta-sheet are shown to be stable, whereas parallel sheets are highly unstable due to ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Yoon J,Jang S,Lee K,Shin S

更新日期：2009-12-01 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：:Abstract In order to target the major groove of DNA, we have designed novel peptide derivatives of 7-H pyridocarbazole, which is the chromophoric ring of ditercalinium, a potent antitumor bisin- tercalator. We will present here the results obtained with a compound that has a D-Asn tethered to the pyridinium nitrogen...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Gresh N,René B,Hui XW,Barsi MC,Roques BP,Garbay C

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00