Proposing a fungal metabolite-flaviolin as a potential inhibitor of 3CLpro of novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 identified using docking and molecular dynamics.

abstract：:An ab initio quantum-chemical study of stacked and hydrogen-bonded protonated cytosine dimer has been carried out. The calculations were made using the second-order Moller-Plesset perturbational method (MP2) with a medium-sized polarized set of atomic orbitals. H-bonded as well as stacked protonated base pairs are mor...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Sponer J,Leszczynski J,Vetterl V,Hobza P

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intrinsic capability of the homo-purine DNA base mispairs to perform wobble↔Watson-Crick/Topal-Fresco tautomeric transitions via the sequential intrapair double proton transfer was discovered for the first time using QM (MP2/DFT) and QTAIM methodologies that are crucial for understanding the microstructural mechan...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Brovarets' OO,Hovorun DM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proton ENDOR has been observed from frozen solutions (ca. 38K degrees) of copper meso-(4-N-tetra-methylpyridyl)porphyrin (CuTMpyP(4)) complexed with Salmon sperm DNA in water and D2O. Lines from exchangeable protons of the DNA bases have been observed in these ENDOR spectra. Analyses of these ENDOR data show that the ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Greiner SP,Kreilick RW,Marzilli LG

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter baumannii, an important nosocomial pathogen, is increasingly becoming resistant to antibiotics including recent β-lactam like imipenem. Production of different types of β-lactamases is one of the major resistance mechanisms which bacteria adapt. We recently reported the presence of a β-lactamase, OXA-51,...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Tiwari V,Moganty RR

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The location, orientation and dynamics of a thiazole-containing analogue of distamycin 1 bound to the decadeoxyribonucleotide d-[CGCAATTGCG]2 have been studied by non-exchangable and imino proton NMR resonances of the 1:1 complex. Using NOE difference, COSY and NOESY experiments, lexitropsin (1) was located in the min...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kumar S,Bathini Y,Joseph T,Pon RT,Lown JW

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cromolyn sodium (CS), an anti-inflammatory drug is used in the treatment of allergic disorders. Bovine serum albumin (BSA) a blood plasma protein is used as a model protein for studying protein folding and ligand binding mechanism as it is the main transporter protein which decides the disposition and pharmacodynamics...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Yasmeen S,Riyazuddeen,Khatun S,Abul Qais F

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The eIF2α kinase activity of the heme-regulated inhibitor (HRI) is regulated by heme which makes it a unique member of the family of eIF2α kinases. Since heme concentrations create an equilibrium for the kinase to be active/inactive, it becomes important to study the heme binding effects upon the kinase and understand...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Bhavnani V,Kaviraj S,Panigrahi P,Suresh CG,Yapara S,Pal J

更新日期：2018-08-01 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 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：:New tailored Cu(II) & Zn(II) metal-based antitumor drug entities were synthesized from substituted benzothiazole o‒vanillin Schiff base ligands. The complexes were thoroughly characterized by elemental analysis, spectroscopic studies {IR, 1H & 13C NMR, ESI-MS, EPR} and magnetic susceptibility measurements. The structu...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Zehra S,Shavez Khan M,Ahmad I,Arjmand F

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abstract Using high frequency antiphase NMR spectroscopy and computer simulations of the antiphase spectra, we studied the equlibria in the sugar conformations in the DNA duplex 11-mer containing the AAA tract surrounded by cytosines. We demonstrate that at the 3'-end of the A-tract, the sugar switches from the comm...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kamath S,Sarma MH,Zhurkin VB,Turner CJ,Sarma RH

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：: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：:Phospholipases A(2) (PLA(2)) are enzymes commonly found in snake venoms from Viperidae and Elaphidae families, which are major components thereof. Many plants are used in traditional medicine as active agents against various effects induced by snakebite. This article presents the PLA(2) BthTX-I structure prediction ba...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Hage-Melim LI,da Silva CH,Semighini EP,Taft CA,Sampaio SV

更新日期：2009-08-01 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：:The binding of quinolones, nalidixic acid (Nal), oxolinic acid (Oxo) with double stranded polynucleotides was undertaken by using UV-melting, UV-Vis absorption, fluorescence and CD spectroscopic techniques. The binding of Nal or Oxo to the polynucleotides under low-salt buffer conditions were determined for poly (dA)....

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Jain A,Rajeswari MR

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis remains one of the most successful bacterial pathogens worldwide. The development of drug-resistant strains and the ability of the bacteria to persist in a latent form in the host are major problems for tuberculosis (TB) control. Glyoxylate shunt is a metabolic bypass of the Krebs cycle and ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Shukla R,Shukla H,Tripathi T

更新日期：2020-04-30 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：: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：: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：:FtsZ is an appealing target for the design of antimicrobial agent that can be used to defeat the multidrug-resistant bacterial pathogens. Pharmacophore modelling, molecular docking and molecular dynamics (MD) simulation studies were performed on a series of three-substituted benzamide derivatives. In the present study...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Tripathy S,Azam MA,Jupudi S,Sahu SK

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase IV (CaMKIV) is a multifunctional enzyme which belongs to the Ser/Thr kinase family. CaMKIV plays important role in varieties of biological processes such as gene expression regulation, memory consolidation, bone growth, T-cell maturation, sperm motility, regulation of microt...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Naz H,Shahbaaz M,Haque MA,Bisetty K,Islam A,Ahmad F,Hassan MI

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study focuses on the molecular docking approach to screen alternative drug that can regulate the hyperglycemia by down-regulating α-glucosidase and α-amylase activity using phenolic compounds: tannic acid (L1), catechin (L2), gallic acid (L3), quercetin (L5) and epicatechin (L6). L1 gives the be...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Abdelli I,Benariba N,Adjdir S,Fekhikher Z,Daoud I,Terki M,Benramdane H,Ghalem S

更新日期：2020-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The human HMGB1 gene mutations have a major impact on several immune-related diseases and cancer. The detrimental effect of non-synonymous mutations of HMGB1 has not been investigated yet, hence the present study aims to examine single nucleotide polymorphisms and their implications on the structure-function of human ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Santhiya P,Christian Bharathi A,Syed Ibrahim B

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma membrane of each micro-organism has a unique set of lipid composition as a consequence of the environmental adaptation or a response to exposure to antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) as antibiotic agents. Understanding the relationship between lipid composition and action of antimicrobial peptides or considering how...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Rahmanpour A,Ghahremanpour MM,Mehrnejad F,Moghaddam ME

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relative humidity induces the reversible crystal transition of guanosine between the dihydrate and the anhydrous state. The characteristics of the transition was investigated by means of X-ray powder diffraction analysis and high-resolution solid-state 13C NMR spectroscopy. Adsorption-desorption hysteresis was observe...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Sugawara Y,Iimura Y,Iwasaki H,Urabe H,Saito H

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae hemolysin (HlyA) is a 65 kDa pore-forming toxin which causes lysis of target eukaryotic cells by forming heptameric channels in the plasma membrane. Deletion of the 15 kDa C-terminus β-prism carbohydrate-binding domain generates a 50 kDa truncated variant (HlyA50) with 1000-fold-reduced pore-forming ac...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Dutta S,Banerjee KK,Ghosh AN

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular modeling studies have been carried out to investigate the interactions between substrate sialyloligosaccharide (SOS) fragments bearing different glycosidic linkages and influenza virus N9 neuraminidase, a surface glycoprotein of influenza virus subtype N9. The studies revealed that the allowed orientation fo...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Veluraja K,Suresh MX,Christlet TH,Rafi ZA

更新日期：2001-08-01 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：:Identifying and predicting the structural characteristics of novel repeats throughout the genome can lend insight into biological function. Specific repeats are believed to have biological significance as a function of their distribution patterns. We have developed 'GenomeMark,' a computer program that detects and sta...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Fadiel A,Eichenbaum KD,Hamza A

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00