Denaturation of nucleic acids induced by intercalating agents. Biochemical and biophysical properties of acridine orange-DNA complexes.

abstract：:The NIa protease of Potyviridae is the major viral protease that processes potyviral polyproteins. The NIa protease coding region of Cardamom mosaic virus (CdMV) is amplified from the viral cDNA, cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli. NIa protease forms inclusion bodies in E.coli. The inclusion bodies are solubiliz...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Jebasingh T,Pandaranayaka EP,Mahalakshmi A,Kasin Yadunandam A,Krishnaswamy S,Usha R

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NPC1 is a 25-exon gene located on the long arm of chromosome 18q11.2 and encodes NPC1, a transmembrane protein comprising 1278 amino acid residues. Mutations in the NPC1 gene can cause Niemann-Pick disease type C (NP-C), a rare autosomal-recessive neurovisceral disease. We assessed mutant protein folding using compute...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Martínez-Archundia M,Hernández Mojica TG,Correa-Basurto J,Montaño S,Camacho-Molina A

更新日期：2020-08-01 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：:Apoptosis is a fundamental biological phenomenon, in which anti- or proapoptotic proteins of the Bcl-2 family regulate a committed step. Overexpression of Bcl-2, the prototypical antiapoptotic protein in this family, is associated with therapy resistance in various human cancers. Accordingly, Bcl-2 inhibitors intended...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Li T,Cui Y,Wu B

更新日期：2019-07-01 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：:We determined the binding sites of curcumin (cur), resveratrol (res), and genistein (gen) with milk β-lactoglobulin (β-LG) at physiological conditions. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, circular dichroism, and fluorescence spectroscopic methods as well as molecular modeling were used to determine the binding of...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kanakis CD,Tarantilis PA,Polissiou MG,Tajmir-Riahi HA

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：: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：: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 results of Raman and Infrared (IR) spectroscopic investigations on the vibrational modes of dimethyl phosphorothioate (DMPS) anion, [(CH3O)2(POS)]-, are reported. Ab initio calculations of the vibrational modes, the IR and Raman spectra and the interatomic force constants of DMPS were performed. A normal mode calc...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Steinke CA,Reeves KK,Powell JW,Lee SA,Chen YZ,Wyrzykiewicz T,Griffey RH,Mohan V

更新日期：1997-02-01 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：:The novel method allowing identification of protein structure elements responsible for catalytic activity manifestation is proposed. Structural organization of various hydrolases was studied using the ANIS (ANalysis of Informational Structure) method. ANIS allows to reveal a hierarchy of the ELements of Information St...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Nekrasov AN,Zinchenko AA

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present paper describes design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of a series of some 3-[3-(amino)propoxy]benzenamines as acetylcholinesterase inhibitors using mice as a model and piracetam as a reference drug. The structures of these compounds were confirmed by spectral analysis and compounds were tested for m...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Malik R,Gupta R,Srivastava S,Choudhary BS,Sharma M

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The N-terminal receiver domain of NtrC is the molecular switch in the two-component signal transduction. It is the first protein where structures of both the active (phosphyroylated) and inactive (unphosphyroylated) states are determined experimentally. Phosphorylation of the NtrC at the active site induces large stru...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Hu X,Wang Y

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the number of available three dimensional coordinates of proteins increases, it is now recognized that proteins from different families and topologies are constructed from independent motifs. Detection of specific structural motifs within proteins aids in understanding their role and the mechanism of their operatio...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Fischer D,Bachar O,Nussinov R,Wolfson H

更新日期：1992-02-01 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：:Conversion of the rod-like tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) virions into "ball-like particles" by thermal denaturation at 90-98 °C had been described by R.G. Hart in 1956. We have reported recently that spherical particles (SPs) generated by thermal denaturation of TMV at 94-98 °C were highly stable, RNA-free, and water-ins...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Dobrov EN,Nikitin NA,Trifonova EA,Parshina EY,Makarov VV,Maksimov GV,Karpova OV,Atabekov JG

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：:The small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) proteins are a kind of proteins that can be attached to a series of proteins. The sumoylation of protein is an important posttranslational modification. Thus, the prediction of the sumoylation site of a given protein is significant. Here we employed a combined method to perform...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Cai Y,He J,Lu L

更新日期：2011-04-01 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：: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：:The conformational state of biliproteins can be determined by optical properties of the covalently linked chromophores. Recently determined crystal structure of truncated form of α-subunit of cyanobacterial phycoerythrin (αC-PE) from Phormidium tenue provides a new insight into the structure-function relationship of α...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Anwer K,Sonani R,Madamwar D,Singh P,Khan F,Bisetty K,Ahmad F,Hassan MI

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium Dependent Protein Kinases are found in the Apicomplexan, algae, and plants; however, they are not reported in vertebrates and are regarded as excellent drug targets for pharmaceutical interventions. Calcium Dependent Protein Kinases of Cryptosporidium are probably involved in the regulation of invasion and egr...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Dhal AK,Pani A,Yun SI,Mahapatra RK

更新日期：2020-07-07 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：: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：:The reactive α-oxoaldehyde, methylglyoxal reacts with different proteins to form Advanced Glycation End Products (AGEs) through Maillard reaction. Its level increases significantly in diabetic condition. Here, we have investigated the effect of different concentrations of methylglyoxal (200-400 µM) on the monomeric pr...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Banerjee S

更新日期：2020-11-01 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：:In this paper, we propose a new method based on the 2-D graphical representation to analyze the similarity of biological sequences and classify the protein secondary structure sequences. Instead of computing some characteristics from the distance matrix, the average area surrounded by the curve and X axis is computed ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Huang W,Guo Y,Zhang J

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MAP/microtubule affinity-regulating kinase 4 (MARK4) is a member of adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinases, directly associated with cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. Here, we have cloned, expressed, and purified two variants of MARK4 [the kinase domain (MARK4-F2), and kinase domain along with 59 N-ter...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Naz F,Singh P,Islam A,Ahmad F,Imtaiyaz Hassan M

更新日期：2016-06-01 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