Curcumin-silica nanocomplex preparation, hemoglobin and DNA interaction and photocytotoxicity against melanoma cancer cells.

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：: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：: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：:X-chromosome-linked inhibitor of apoptosis (XIAP) inhibits cell apoptosis. Overexpression of XIAP is widely found in human cancers. Second mitochondria-derived activator of caspase (SMAC) protein inhibits XIAP through binding with Baculovirus Inhibitor of apoptosis protein Repeat (BIR) 3 or BIR2 domain of XIAP. In thi...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Tian S,Ji C,Zhang JZH

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:First case of the present epidemic, coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is reported in the Wuhan, a city of the China and all the countries throughout the world are being affected. COVID-19 is named by World Health Organization and it stands for coronavirus disease-19. As on 27th October, 2020, 73,776,588 people around the...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kumar A,Kumar D,Kumar R,Singh P,Chandra R,Kumari K

更新日期：2020-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular electrostatic potential (MEP) and the molecular electrostatic field (MEF) are associated with significantly different patterns of distribution in the nucleic acids and their constituents. In particular, a) while the values of the minimal potentials at the reactive sites of the bases or at the phosphates ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Pullman B

更新日期：1983-12-01 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 World Health Organization has classified the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic which is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) and declared it a global health emergency. Repurposing drugs with minimum side effects are one approach to quickly respond in attempt to prevent the spread of CO...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Al-Rashedi NAM,Munahi MG,Ah ALObaidi L

更新日期：2020-12-27 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：:Trichoderma spp. are well-known bioagents for the plant growth promotion and pathogen suppression. The beneficial activities of the fungus Trichoderma spp. are attributed to their ability to produce and secrete certain secondary metabolites such as trichodermin that belongs to trichothecene family of molecules. The in...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kumari I,Chaudhary N,Sandhu P,Ahmed M,Akhter Y

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The problem that how many protein-coding genes there are in the genome of Aeropyrum pernix K1 has confused many scientists since the sequencing in 1999. In this paper, the protein-coding genes in A. pernix K1 are identified from the original and current NITE annotation by using the Aper_ORFs method. Consequently, 702 ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Guo FB,Lin Y

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pertussis, caused by Bordetella pertussis is still one of the controversial diseases worldwide due to its high prevalence in both the developed and the developing countries, especially among young children. As currently approved vaccines are not protective enough and provide Th2-type immune responses, there is an urge...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Souod N,Rismani E,Bahrami F,Pakzad SR,Ajdary S

更新日期：2020-07-21 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：:The study is focused on the synthesis of a novel complex of ibuprofen and Platinum(II). The formation of the product was characterized through analytical tools including Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, proton nuclear magnetic resonance, ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy, mass spectrometry as well as density fu...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Shiri F,Hadidi S,Rahimi-Nasrabadi M,Ahmadi F,Ganjali MR,Ehrlich H

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abstract The stacking preference of a DNA Four-Way junction (4H), with a novel junction sequence, has been determined in the presence of magnesium ions as well as in the presence of cobalt(III)hexammine ions by means of NMR spectroscopy. In both cases this 4H has a strong preference (>80%) to fold in an A/D-stacked ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： van Buuren BN,Schleucher J,Wijmenga SS

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An investigation of the self-association behavior of 2'-deoxy[5'-phosphate-guanylyl-(3'-5')-guanosine] (d(pGpG)) in the presence of Na+ and K+ ions has been carried out by 1H and 31P NMR and FTIR spectroscopy. A comparison has been made of the self- association behavior of d(pGpG) with that of the related dinucleotide...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kawasaki MM,Walmsley JA

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our earlier study on the nucleosomes containing TBP binding sites (TATA boxes) indicated that generally the same sequence, which harbors the TATA box, encodes simultaneously an alternative rotational setting of the box, so that the TATA element is either exposed (position "minor groove out") or hidden in position "min...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Trifonov EN

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The algorithms of the analysis of R-looped DNA molecules from electron micrographs are presented. We propose a two-dimensional R-loop distribution map with abscissa and ordinate axes corresponding to the positions of the left and right ends of the loop respectively. A transcription analysis of the hybrid plasmid pSCV1...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Golovanov EuI,Kalambet YuA,Auezova LJ,Alexandrov AA

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural and thermodynamic characters of alpha-syn12 peptide in aqueous solution at different pH and temperatures have been investigated through temperature replica exchange molecular dynamics (T-REMD) simulations with GROMOS 43A1 force field. The two independent T-REMD simulations were completed at pH = 7.0 and...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Cao Z,Liu L,Wang J

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CLTOAB is an ammonium-based ionic liquid composed of ε-Caprolactam (CL) C6H11NO and tetraoctylammonium bromide (TOAB) (C32H68BrN). In this study, experimental IR and Raman spectra of CLTOAB ionic liquid together with the computational results of the compound have been reported. The optimized geometry, vibrational freq...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Celik S,Albayrak AT,Akyuz S,E Ozel A

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aggregation of amyloid peptide (Aβ) has been shown to be directly related to progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Aβ is neurotoxic and its deposition and aggregation ultimately lead to cell death. In our previous work, we reported flavonoid derivative (compound 1) showing promising result in transgenic AD model of...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kumar A,Srivastava S,Tripathi S,Singh SK,Srikrishna S,Sharma A

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetra-(4-N-methylpyridyl)-porphyrin, (T4MPyP), is a tetracationic porphyrin that binds to G-C sequences of DNA by means of an intercalative mode. In order to extend its selective sequence recognition capacity for bases beyond the intercalation site, and in the major groove, we have undertaken the theoretical design of...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Hui X,Gresh N

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most fibrous polynucleotides of general sequence exhibit secondary structures that are described adequately by regular helices with a repeated motif of only one nucleotide. Such helices exploit the fact that A:T, T:A, G:C, and C:G pairs are essentially isomorphous and have dyadically-related glycosylic bonds. Polynucl...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Arnott S,Chandrasekaran R,Banerjee AK,He R,Walker JK

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two naphthalene-containing compounds, 4-hydroxy-6,7-dimethoxy-1-(4-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)-2-naphthoic acid (A) and 4-hydroxy-6,7-dimethoxy-1-phenyl-2-naphthoic acid (B), were prepared by several steps. Their bindings to human serum albumin (HSA) were studied by ultraviolet-visible (UV-vis) absorption, fluorescence, ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Wang X,Xing Y,Su J,Wang C,Wang Z,Yu Y,Xu H,Ma D

更新日期：2020-06-12 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：:Histone deacetylase 8 (HDAC8) has emerged as an important therapeutic target due to its involvement in various cancerous and neurodegenerative disease states. Since pan HDAC inhibition has been linked to various side effects, the need of the hour is to develop inhibitors truly selective for one isoform. This work atte...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kashyap K,Kakkar R

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanothione reductase has long been investigated as a promising target for chemotherapeutic intervention in Chagas disease, since it is an enzyme of a unique metabolic pathway that is exclusively present in the pathogen but not in the human host, which has the analog Glutathione reductase. In spite of the present da...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： de Paula da Silva CH,Bernardes LS,da Silva VB,Zani CL,Carvalho I

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biomembranes and lipid systems are rich in unsaturated lipid components and are subject to photo-induced lipid peroxidation. The peroxidized lipid products in cellular systems are known to affect the structural organization and function of the biomembrane. We employed molecular dynamics simulations to study the effect...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kumar S,Rana R,Yadav DK

更新日期：2020-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Osmium tetroxide complexes with nitrogen ligands (Os,L) have been widely used as probes of the DNA structure. A monoclonal antibody OsBP7H8 against DNA adducts with Os,L was produced in mice. OsBP7H8 does not bind to proteins or total yeast RNA modified with Os,2,2'-bipyridine (bipy) nor to the unmodified nucleic acid...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Bůzek J,Kuderová A,Pexa T,Stanková V,Lauerová L,Palecek E

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In view of the low toxicity of NNRTIs in comparison to NRTIs, a new series of diarylpyrimidine derivatives has been designed as NNRTIs against HIV-1. In silico studies using DS 3.0 software have shown that these compounds behaved as NNRTIs while interacting at the allosteric site of HIV-RT. The designed compounds have...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Singh VK,Srivastava R,Gupta PSS,Naaz F,Chaurasia H,Mishra R,Rana MK,Singh RK

更新日期：2020-04-11 00:00:00