Computational studies of membrane pore formation induced by Pin2.

abstract：:Malaria remains one of the most important infectious diseases in the world. Plasmodial cysteine proteases are proposed to be promising targets for novel antimalarial drug design. Vivapain-2 and vivapain-3 are cysteine proteases from Plasmodium vivax and apparent orthologs of falcipain-2 and falcipain-3 from Plasmodium...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Desai PV,Avery MA

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Repeat regions are low-complexity regions in the human genome that largely code for intrinsic disorder in proteins. Expansions outside the normal thresholds in repeat regions are likely to be pathogenic, leading to the so-called repeat expansion diseases. There have been numerous studies on the most common group of re...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Hernandez R,Facelli JC

更新日期：2021-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A first principles calculation of the correlation function for conformational motion (CM) in proteins is carried out within the framework of a microscopic model of a protein as a heterogeneous system. The fragments of the protein are assumed to be identical hard spheres undergoing the CM within their conformational po...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Sitnitsky AE

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work aims at characterizing structural transitions within the intrinsically disordered C-terminal domain of the nucleoprotein (NTAIL) from the Nipah and Hendra viruses, two recently emerged pathogens gathered within the Henipavirus genus. To this end, we used site-directed spin labeling combined with electron par...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Martinho M,Habchi J,El Habre Z,Nesme L,Guigliarelli B,Belle V,Longhi S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the Tetrahymena thermophila rRNA IVS sequence with the aim of obtaining a model of the structure characterized by the bases proximity of the self-reactions sites. The considered sequence kept up those fragments essential for its catalytic activity as demonstrated by deletion mutants. The first step was the ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Benedetti G,Morosetti S

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA.DNA hybrid duplexes are relevant in various biological mechanisms like transcription and replication. Enzymes like RNase H cleave specifically the RNA strand in RNA.DNA duplexes. In antisense technology the complexation of mRNA with "modified" oligo(deoxy)-nucleotides leads to new hybrid duplexes. The knowledge ab...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Fritsch V,Wolf RM

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanoma is a malignant cancer of the skin associated with a high mortality. Early medical diagnosis and surgical intervention are essential for the treatment of melanoma. The use of plant-based compounds is an important strategy for the prevention and treatment of different types of cancers. Curcumin is a promising n...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Ghazaeian M,Khorsandi K,Hosseinzadeh R,Naderi A,Abrahamse H

更新日期：2020-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A conceptually new idea in quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSAR) which makes use of ensembles from molecular dynamics (MD) trajectories and information retrieved from enzyme-inhibitor binding thermodynamics is presented in this study. This new methodology, termed ensemble comparative residue interaction...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Khedkar VM,Joseph J,Pissurlenkar R,Saran A,Coutinho EC

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The guanine-rich sequence, specifically in DNA, telomeric DNA, is a potential target of anticancer drugs. In this work, a mononuclear Fe(III) complex containing two meloxicam ligands was synthesized as a G-quadruplex stabilizer. The interaction between the Fe(III) complex and G-quadruplex with sequence of 5'-G3(T2AG3)...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Ebrahimi M,Khayamian T,Hadadzadeh H,Sayed Tabatabaei BE,Jannesari Z,Khaksar G

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of bacterial resistance toward antibiotics has been led to pay attention to the antimicrobial peptides (AMPs). The common mechanism of AMPs is disrupting the integrity of the bacterial membrane. One of the most accessible targets for α-defensins human neutrophil peptide-1 (HNP-1) is lipid II. In the pr...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Moazzezy N,Rismani E,Rezaei M,Karam MRA,Rafati S,Bouzari S,Oloomi M

更新日期：2020-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequence dependent conformation, flexibility and hydration properties of DNA molecules constitute selectivity determinants in the formation of protein-DNA complexes. TATA boxes in which AT basepairs (bp) have been substituted by IC bp (TITI box) allow for probing these selectivity determinants for the complexation...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Pastor N,MacKerell AD Jr,Weinstein H

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone acetyltransferases (HATs) is one among the conspicuous posttranslational modification in eukaryotic cells. p300/CBP Associated Factor (PCAF) and CREB-binding protein (CBP) are the two highly homologous HAT family which are vastly implicated in several diseases like cancer, diabetes, etc. Pentadecylidenemalonat...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Suryanarayanan V,Singh SK

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We dissect the protein-protein interfaces into water preservation (WP), water hydration (WH) and water dehydration (WD) sites by comparing the water-mediated hydrogen bonds (H-bond) in the bound and unbound states of the interacting subunits. Upon subunit complexation, if a H-bond between an interface water and a prot...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Mukherjee S,Nithin C,Divakaruni Y,Bahadur RP

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SARS-CoV-2 cause fatal infection in 213 countries accounting for the death of millions of people globally. In the present study, phytochemicals from spices were assessed for their ability to interact with SARS-CoV-2 MPro. Structure based virtual screening was performed with 146 phytochemicals from spices using Autodoc...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Rajendran M,Roy S,Ravichandran K,Mishra B,Gupta DK,Nagarajan S,Arul Selvaraj RC,Provaznik I

更新日期：2020-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of SrtA inhibitors targeting the biothreat organism namely Bacillus anthracis was achieved by the combined approach of pharmacophore modeling, binding interactions, electron transferring capacity, ADME, and Molecular dynamics studies. In this study, experimentally reported Ba-SrtA inhibitors (pyridazin...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Selvaraj C,Singh SK

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug resistant mutations have severely restricted the success of HIV therapy. These mutations frequently involve the aspartic protease encoded by the virus. Knowledge of the molecular mechanisms underlying the conformational changes of HIV-1 protease mutants may be useful in developing more effective and longer lastin...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Purohit R,Rajendran V,Sethumadhavan R

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sickle cell disease is caused by the amino acid substitution of glutamic acid to valine, which leads to the polymerization of deoxygenated sickle hemoglobin (HbS) into long strands. These strands are responsible for the sickling of red blood cells (RBCs), making blood hyper-coagulable leading to an increased chance of...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Yesudasan S,Douglas SA,Platt MO,Wang X,Averett RD

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our previous work on structural polymorphism shown at a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) (A → G) site located on HS4 region of locus control region (LCR) of β-globin gene has established a hairpin → duplex equilibrium corresponding to A → B like DNA transition (Kaushik M, Kukreti, R., Grover, D., Brahmachari, S.K....

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kaushik M,Kukreti S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to allow for real dielectric properties of a solvent in calculating of electrostatic characteristics of strongly charged polyions such as DNA in salt solution we consider a simple model of linear dielectric response of a medium. The interactions between charged particles are treated in the framework of self-c...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Lukashin AV,Beglov DB,Frank-Kamenetskii MD

更新日期：1991-12-01 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：:Functions of non-coding RNAs are related in part to their secondary structures. We investigate the uniqueness of the secondary structure of a non-coding RNA (ncRNA) decoding UAG to read pyrrolysine (pyl). Nineteen archaeal methanogens are searched with our tRNA-pyl-tracker, TPYLT, perl-script downloadable from www.gya...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Das S,Mukherjee R,Sahoo S,Thakkar R,Chakrabarti J

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intrinsic luminescence of different forms of the alfalfa mosaic virus (AMV) strain 425 coat protein has been studied, both statically and time resolved. It was found that the emission of the protein (Mr 24,250), which contains two tryptophans at positions 54 and 190 and four tyrosines, is completely dominated by t...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kan JH,Wijnaendts van Resandt RW,Dekkers HP

更新日期：1986-02-01 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：:In this study, conformational behavior, structural, and vibrational characterization of the carboxy terminal dipeptide of β-endorphin (glycy-l-glutamine, glycyl-glutamine, beta-endorphin30-31), which is an inhibitory neuropeptide synthesized from beta-endorphin1-31 in brain stem regions, has been investigated. The the...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kecel-Gunduz S,Celik S,Ozel AE,Akyuz S

更新日期：2017-02-01 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：:The thermal denaturation of the synthetic high molecular weight double stranded polynucleotide poly(dA-dT) x poly(dA-dT) has been studied in aqueous buffered solution (Tris 1.0 mM; pH 7.8+/-0.2) in the presence of increasing concentrations of either Ni(2+) (borderline cation) or Cd(2+) (soft cation) at four different ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Airoldi M,Gennaro G,Giomini M,Giuliani AM,Giustini M

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of DNA and RNA with Cu(II), Mg(II), [Co(NH3)6]3+ [Co(NH3)5Cl]2+ chlorides and, cis- and trans-Pt(NH3)2Cl2 (CIS-DDP, trans-DDP) has been studied by Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy and a correlation between metal-base binding and conformational transitions in the sugar pucker has been est...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Theophanides T,Tajmir-Riahi HA

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Room temperature mid-infrared experiments between 500 and 1800 cm(-1) have been performed on crystalline deoxyadenosine as a function of pressure up to about 10 GPa. Discontinuities observed near 2 and 4 GPa indicate that two separate phase transitions occur at these pressures. Changes in the spectra suggest that both...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Lee SA,Lettress L,Anderson A

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A computer simulation of guanine (G), cytosine (C), the G-C base pair, protonated C (CH+), acetic acid in neutral (AcOH) and deprotonated (AcO-) forms, G-AcO-, C-AcOH, and CH(+)-AcO- complexes, solvated in DMSO was carried out by the Monte Carlo method. It is shown that the G-C base pair formation in DMSO is energetic...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Danilov VI,Slyusarchuk ON,Poltev VI,Alderfer JL

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A vast research has been conducted to find suitable and safe carriers for vital and pH-sensitive drugs including antibiotics. This article reports the use of easily accessible and abundant purified beta-lactoglobulin (β-LG) protein as the potential carrier of widely used Kanamycin (Kana) and Ciprofloxacin (Cip) antibi...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Mehraban MH,Odooli S,Yousefi R,Roghanian R,Motovali-Bashi M,Moosavi-Movahedi AA,Ghasemi Y

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00