Binding of raloxifene to human complement fragment 5a (hC5a): a perspective on cytokine storm and COVID19.

abstract：:Notch is a single-pass transmembrane receptor protein. Delta (member of the DSL protein family), a Notch ligand, is also single-pass transmembrane protein that can interact with Notch to form the Delta-Notch complex. It has been demonstrated that of the 36 Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF) repeats of Notch, 11th and 12th ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Majumder R,Roy S,Thakur AR

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Target evaluation is at the centre of rational drug design and biologics development. In order to successfully engineer antibodies, T-cell receptors or small molecules it is necessary to identify and characterise potential binding or contact sites on therapeutically relevant target proteins. Currently, there are numer...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kanapeckaitė A,Beaurivage C,Hancock M,Verschueren E

更新日期：2020-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Heavy metal pollutants such as Cd, Hg, Pb, As, and Se are considered as both a global problem and a growing threat to the humanity. Being strongly poisonous to the metal-sensitive enzymes and leading to the growth inhibition and death of organisms, these metals have a toxic impact on the plants and animals. Inducing t...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Mahnam K,Foruzandeh S,Mirakhorli N,Saffar B

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two aminobenzoic acid derivatives DAB-0 and DAB-1 showed distinct biological properties on murine bladder cancer (BCa) cell line MB49-I. In contrast to DAB-1, DAB-0 does not possess any anti-inflammatory activity and is less toxic. Furthermore, DAB-0 does not interfere with INFγ-induced STAT1 activation and TNFα-induc...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Chanphai P,Cloutier F,Oufqir Y,Leclerc MF,Eiján AM,Reyes-Moreno C,Bérubé G,Tajmir-Riahi HA

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of various structures by self-assembling single stranded DNA molecules is a widely used technology in the filed of DNA nanotechnology. Base sequences of single strands do predict the shape of the resulting nanostructure. Therefore, sequence design is crucial for the successful structure fabrication. This pa...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Seiffert J,Huhle A

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SARS-CoV-2 is causative agent of COVID-19, which is responsible for severe social and economic disruption globally. Lack of vaccine or antiviral drug with clinical efficacy suggested that drug repurposing approach may provide a quick therapeutic solution to COVID-19. Nonstructural protein-15 (NSP15) encodes for an uri...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Chandra A,Gurjar V,Qamar I,Singh N

更新日期：2020-06-09 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：:A novel ternary copper(II) complexes, - [Cu(py-phen)(asn)(NO3)(H2O)] (1) and [Cu(py-phen)(trp)(H2O)]NO3 (2)- (py-phen: pyrazino[2,3-f][1,10]phenanthroline, asn: asparagine, trp: tryptophan), have been synthesized and characterized by CHN analysis, ESI-MS, FTIR and single-crystal X-ray diffraction techniques. Interacti...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： İnci D,Aydın R,Vatan Ö,Zorlu Y

更新日期：2020-08-18 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：: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：:Methylation of DNA occurs most readily at N(3), N(7), and O(6) of purine bases and N(3) and O(2) of pyrimidines. Methylated bases are continuously formed through endogenous and exogenous mechanisms. The results of a theoretical ab initio study on the methylation of G:C base pair components are reported. The geometries...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Forde G,Flood A,Salter L,Hill G,Gorb L,Leszczynski J

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

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：:The novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a major worldwide public health emergency that has infected over 8 million people. Spike glycoprotein, especially the partially open state of S1 subunit, in SARS-CoV-2 is considered vital for its infection with human host cell. However, the mech...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Tian H,Tao P

更新日期：2020-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The empirical potential including the intra- and intermolecular energy terms was used to study the interaction of L-Lysine-L-Alanine-L-Alanine Tripeptide with four models of B-DNA with different compositions. On the basis of a detailed search of the respective potential energy surface, it was found that the peptide is...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Vondrásek J,Sponar J,Hobza P

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The solution structure of two double helical nucleic acid fragments, viz, r(CGCGCG) and d(CGCGCG), was probed by means of two-dimensional nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy. The two compounds were selected as models for the A-type and B-type double helical conformations, respectively, and it is shown that for each...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Haasnoot CA,Westerink HP,van der Marel GA,van Boom JH

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

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

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Efimov AV

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We attempt to give an alternate point of view of the analysis by Roterman et al. (J. Biolmol. Struct. Dyn. 7,415 (1989]. In particular, we argue for the use of flexible geometry and explicit inclusion of solvent effects in analyzing phi, psi maps of peptides. ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kollman PA,Dill KA

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleoprotein (NP) binds the viral RNA genome as oligomers assembled with the polymerase in a ribonucleoprotein complex required for transcription and replication of influenza A virus. Novel antiviral candidates targeting the nucleoprotein either induced higher order oligomers or reduced NP oligomerization by targ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Tarus B,Bertrand H,Zedda G,Di Primo C,Quideau S,Slama-Schwok A

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Triple helices with G*G.C and A*A.T base triplets with third GA strands either parallel or antiparallel with respect to the homologous duplex strand have been formed in presence of Na (+) or Mg(2+) counterions. Antiparallel triplexes are more stable and can be obtained even in presence of only monovalent Na(+) counter...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Liquier J,Geinguenaud F,Huynh-Dinh T,Gouyette C,Khomyakova E,Taillandier E

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:-1 programmed ribosomal frameshifting (PRF) in viruses is often stimulated by a pseudoknot downstream from the slippery sequence. At the PRF junction of HIV-1, transmissible gastroenteritis virus (TGEV), Barmah Forest virus (BFV), Fort Morgan virus (FMV), and Equine arteritis virus (EAV), we identified potential doubl...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Wang G,Yang Y,Huang X,Du Z

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins are nature's biomolecular machines. Proteins, such as transporters, pumps and motors, have complex function/operating-machinery/mechanisms, comparable to the macro-scaled machines that we encounter in our daily life. These proteins, as it is for their macro-scaled counterparts, convert (part of) other/various...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Gur M,Golcuk M,Yilmaz SZ,Taka E

更新日期：2020-02-01 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：: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 molecular structure of poly (I).poly (A).poly (I) has been determined and refined using the continuous intensity data on layer lines in the x-ray diffraction pattern obtained from an oriented fiber of this polymorphic RNA complex. The polymer forms a 12-fold right-handed triple-helix of pitch 39.7A and each base-t...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Chandrasekaran R,Giacometti A,Arnott S

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformation of a complex of a 41 mer/31 mer DNA fragment and the Klenow fragment of DNA polymerase I of Escherichia coli was studied by scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM). The results shows that near two turns of double helix of this DNA fragment was outside of enzyme while another part containing more than one...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Lu CD,Li MQ,Qui MY,Yao XW,Xu YL,Gu MM,Hu J

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abstract The forces that direct protein folding lead naturally to native proteins and protein domains that are typically, to a first approximation, globular-spherical and compact, with a relatively clear distinction between the hydrophobic inside and polar outside. The near-universality of these features of protein ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Carey J

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is an ongoing global health emergency. Repurposing of approved pharmaceutical drugs for COVID-19 treatment represents an attractive approach to quickly identify promising drug candidates. SARS-CoV-2 main protease...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Mandour YM,Zlotos DP,Alaraby Salem M

更新日期：2020-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptide- and protein-protein dockings were carried out on β2-adrenergic receptor (β2AR) to confirm the presence of transmembrane helix 6 (TM6) at the interface region between two β2AR monomers, thereby its possible role in dimerization as suggested in numerous experimental and computational studies. Initially, a porti...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Koroglu A,Akten ED

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:COVID-19 is an infectious pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The critical components of SARS-CoV-2 are the spike protein (S-protein) and the main protease (Mpro). Mpro is required for the maturation of the various polyproteins involved in replication and transcription. S-protein helps the SARS-CoV-2 to enter the...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Mondal P,Natesh J,Abdul Salam AA,Thiyagarajan S,Meeran SM

更新日期：2020-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We have applied random-search, energy minimization and molecular dynamics simulations to investigate the structural aspects of the interaction of N-acetyl-L-prolyl-D-alanyl-L-alanine-N'-methylamide with Ca2+. Spectral data on related peptides had suggested that the beta-turn conformation might be a prerequisite for th...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Michel AG,Jeandenans C,Ananthanarayanan VS

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00