Tris (phenanthroline) metal complexes: probes for DNA helicity.

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：: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：:The functional aspect of several mycobacterium proteins annotated as hypothetical are yet to be discovered. In the present investigation, in silico approaches were used to predict the biological function of some of the unknown Mtb proteins, which were further validated by wet lab experiments. After screening thousands...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kumar A,Sharma A,Kaur G,Makkar P,Kaur J

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear quadrupole relaxation is a sensitive measure of electrolyte environments. We used the relaxation of 23Na to probe mobile ion-matrix interactions and the electrostatic structure of the polyelectrolyte extracellular matrix of cartilage. Specifically, we measured spin-lattice and spin-spin relaxation times of 23N...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Dai H,McFarland EW

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linezolid, one of the reserve antibiotic of oxazolidinone class has wide range of antimicrobial activity. Here we have conducted a fundamental study concerning the dynamics of its interaction with bovine serum albumin (BSA), and the post binding modification of the later by employing different spectroscopic (absorptio...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Roy A,Seal P,Sikdar J,Banerjee S,Haldar R

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

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

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Zang Y,Hao D,Wang H,Yang Z,Liu H,Zhang S

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frequently discussed analogy between genetic and human texts is explored by comparison of alternation of polar and non-polar amino-acid residues in proteins and alternation of consonants and vowels in human texts. In human languages, the usage of possible combinations of consonants and vowels is influenced by pronounc...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Zemková M,Trifonov EN,Zahradník D

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 object of the present study is the verification of a new approach to the design of the active truncated forms of enzymes. The method is based on a new way of investigating the protein sequences--the ANalysis of Informational Structure (ANIS). The analysis of informational structure allows to determine the hierarch...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Nekrasov AN,Radchenko VV,Shuvaeva TM,Novoselov VI,Fesenko EE,Lipkin VM

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of the nonclassical pi kappa base pair (7-methyl-oxoformycin B. . .2,4-diaminopyrimidine) was studied at the ab initio Hartree-Fock (HF) and MP2 levels using the 6-31G* and 6-31G** basis sets. The pi kappa base pair is bound by three parallel hydrogen bonds with the donor-acceptor-donor recognition patte...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Florián J,Leszczyński J

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes is very much known as a wide-spread disorder all around the world with serious complications for the diabetic patient. In order to reduce these complications, inhibition the activity of aldose reductase (AR) and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) enzymes is a proposed pathway. Within this work potency of curcumin (CUR)...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Mirzaei M,Harismah K,Soleimani M,Mousavi S

更新日期：2020-07-31 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

abstract：:Non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) is a major DNA double strand breaks (DSBs) repair pathway that maintains genome integrity. However, this pathway may reduce radiotherapy efficacy by repairing DSBs on cancer cells. This research reported a computer-aided drug design (CADD) method to identify novel inhibitors from trad...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Sun MF,Chang TT,Chang KW,Huang HJ,Chen HY,Tsai FJ,Lin JG,Chen CY

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A molecular dynamics simulation of the Sm binding site from human U4 snRNA was undertaken to determine the conformational flexibility of this region and to identify RNA conformations that were important for binding of the Sm proteins. The RNA was fully-solvated (>9,000 water molecules) and charge neutralized by inclus...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Guo J,Daizadeh I,Gmeiner WH

更新日期：2000-12-01 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：:Inhibition of normal cellular apoptosis or programed cell death is the hallmark of all cancers. Apoptotic dysregulation can result in numerous pathological conditions, such as cancers, autoimmune disorders, and neurodegeneration. Members of the BCL-2 family of proteins regulate the process of apoptosis by its promotio...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Anantram A,Kundaikar H,Degani M,Prabhu A

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

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：:Colchicine, a tricyclic alkaloid, has a remarkable range of biological activities. It binds with tubulin and prevents the formation of microtubules. This compound consists of a six membered aromatic ring (A ring), a seven membered troponoid ring (C ring) and another seven membered aliphatic ring (B ring). Using molecu...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Bothra AK,Roy S,Bhattacharyya B,Mukhopadhyay C

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of "words" in continuous languages devoid of blanks is introduced and an operational definition of words given. With this novel concept nucleotide sequences become object for linguistic analysis. The typical word size of the nucleotide language is found to be 3 to 5 (tri- to pentamers). Different genomes h...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Brendel V,Beckmann JS,Trifonov EN

更新日期：1986-08-01 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 deoxydinucleoside triphosphate units d-pCpGp and d-pGpCp were subjected to a rigorous theoretical investigation with a view to describing their distinctive conformational characteristics. For each unit 216 probable three-dimensional forms defined by the backbone-base dihedral angles and sugar pucker modes were con...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Ponnuswamy PK,Anukanth A

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamine synthetase (GS) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is an essential enzyme which is involved in nitrogen metabolism and cell wall synthesis. It is involved in the inhibition of phagosome-lysosome fusion by preventing acidification. Targeting GS can be helpful to control the infection of Mtb. In order to iden...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kumari M,Subbarao N

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuum finite element material models used for traumatic brain injury lack local injury parameters necessitating nanoscale mechanical injury mechanisms be incorporated. One such mechanism is membrane mechanoporation, which can occur during physical insults and can be devastating to cells, depending on the level of ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Murphy MA,Mun S,Horstemeyer MF,Baskes MI,Bakhtiary A,LaPlaca MC,Gwaltney SR,Williams LN,Prabhu RK

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simple molecular docking calculations on quercetin, kojic acid and diethylcarbamatodithoic acid using the software package MOE are shown to be close to the geometries reported in the X-ray crystal structures of the protein co-crystallized with the respective ligands. Furthermore, DFT optimization of the docked conform...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Malkhasian AY,Howlin BJ

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

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

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Gonçalves RL,Leite TCR,Dias BP,Caetano CCDS,de Souza ACG,Batista UDS,Barbosa CC,Reyes-Sandoval A,Coelho LFL,Silva BM

更新日期：2020-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The hydration properties of the non-palindromic duplex d(CTACTGCTTTAG). d(CTAAAGCAGTAG) were investigated by NMR spectroscopy. The oligonucleotide possesses a heterogeneous B-DNA structure. The H2(n)-H1'(m+1) distances reflect a minor groove narrowing within the TTT/AAA segment (approximately 3.9A) and a sudden wideni...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Leporc S,Mauffret O,El Antri S,Convert O,Lescot E,Tevanian G,Fermandjian S

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rice blast disease caused by the fungus Magnaporthe grisea is one of the most devastating rice diseases, but there is no effective fungicide toward chitinase which is a key enzyme of M. grisea. In this study, we observed that distortion and cell-wall damage of M. grisea hyphae were significantly under the scanning...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Liu X,Li W,Hu B,Wang M,Wang J,Guan L

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glyoxalase is one of two enzymes of the glyoxalase detoxification system against methylglyoxal and other aldehydes, the metabolites derived from glycolysis. The glyoxalase system is found almost in all living organisms: bacteria, protozoa, plants, and animals, including humans, and is related to the class of 'life ess...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kargatov AM,Boshkova EA,Chirgadze YN

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:α-helices are the most common form of secondary structure found in proteins. In order to study controlled protein folding, as well as manipulate the interface of helical peptides with targets in protein-protein interactions, many techniques have been developed to induce and stabilize α-helical structure in short synth...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Guarracino DA,Alabanza AM,Robertson CT,Sanghvi SS

更新日期：2015-01-01 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