On the use of chiral compounds for probing the DNA handedness: Z to B conversion in poly(dGm5dC) upon binding of Fe(phen)3(2+) and Ru(phen)3(2+).

abstract：:Proteins interact with carbohydrates to perform various cellular interactions. Of the many carbohydrate ligands that proteins bind with, mannose constitute an important class, playing important roles in host defense mechanisms. Accurate identification of mannose-interacting residues (MIR) may provide important clues t...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Pai PP,Mondal S

更新日期：2016-10-01 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：:Polar mutations in transmembrane alpha helices may alter the structural details of the hydrophobic sequences and control intermolecular contacts. We have performed molecular dynamics simulations on the transmembrane domain of the proto-oncogenic and the oncogenic forms of the Neu receptor in a fluid DMPC bilayer to te...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Samna Soumana O,Aller P,Garnier N,Genest M

更新日期：2005-08-01 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：: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：: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：:Low sampling efficiency in conformational space is the well-known problem for conventional molecular dynamics. It greatly increases the difficulty for molecules to find the transition path to native state, and costs amount of CPU time. To accelerate the sampling, in this paper, we re-couple the critical degrees of fre...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Chen C,Huang Y,Xiao Y

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present work fluctuations of number of ligands adsorbed on macromolecule are investigated. We have taken into account the adsorption and desorption of ligands under the circumstance of some adsorption centers fluctuations affected by medium fluctuation. The correlation function and spectral density of number of...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Arakelyan VB,Haroutiunian SG,Arakelyan HV,Haroutiunian TS

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to investigate the interfacial activation of a lipase from Pseudomonas cepacia (PcL), molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and essential dynamics (ED) analysis were performed in different solvent environments: vacuum and explicit water solvents. Starting from the active (open) structure of PcL, the essential d...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Lee J,Suh SW,Shin S

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the explosive growth of protein sequences entering into protein data banks in the post-genomic era, it is highly demanded to develop automated methods for rapidly and effectively identifying the protein-protein binding sites (PPBSs) based on the sequence information alone. To address this problem, we proposed a p...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Jia J,Liu Z,Xiao X,Liu B,Chou KC

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catalytic mechanism of orotidine 5'-monophosphate decarboxylase (OMPDC), one of the nature most proficient enzymes which provides large rate enhancement, has not been fully understood yet. A series of 30 ns molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were run on X-ray structure of the OMPDC from Saccharomyces cerevisiae in it...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Jamshidi S,Jalili S,Rafii-Tabar H

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different post-translational changes in eye lens crystallin proteins contribute towards the development of cataract. We have studied in vitro oxidative modification of tryptophan (Trp) residues of human γD-crystallin (HGD) towards formation of N-formylkynurenine (NFK) associated with cataractogenesis. This oxidation w...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Rana S,Sarmah S,Singha Roy A,Ghosh KS

更新日期：2020-03-18 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：:The operator-binding domain of the lambda-repressor contains five alpha-helices and an extended N-terminal arm in the crystal structure determined by Pabo and Lewis reported in Nature 298, 443, 1982 (1). The four helices form a "box" enclosing a hydrophobic core with the fifth helix interacting with the equivalent hel...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Bashford D,Weaver DL,Karplus M

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The design and DNA binding activity of beta-structure-forming peptides and netropsin-peptide conjugates are reported. It is found that a pair of peptides-S,S'-bis(Lys-Gly-Val-Cys-Val-NH-NH-Dns)-bridged by an S-S bond binds at least 10 times more strongly to poly(dG).poly(dC) than to poly(dA).poly(dT). This peptide can...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Nikolaev VA,Grokhovsky SL,Surovaya AN,Leinsoo TA,Sidorova NYu,Zasedatelev AS,Zhuze AL,Strahan GA,Shafer RH,Gursky GV

更新日期：1996-08-01 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：:Novel [Pd(o-CH2C6H4P(o-tolyl)2)(histidine)] (1) and [Pd(o-CH2C6H4P(o tolyl)2)(phenylalanine)] (2) P,C-orthopalladated complexes have been prepared and characterized by elemental analysis, IR and NMR spectroscopy. To study the stability of the compounds in biological media, the complexes were incubated in Tris buffer d...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Hashemi S,Karami K,Saberi Dehkordi Z,Momtazi-Borojeni AA,Esmaeili SA

更新日期：2020-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The intercalative binding of chiral tris(phenanthroline) metal complexes to DNA is stereo-selective. The enantiomeric selectivity is based upon the differential steric interactions between the two non-intercalating phenanthroline ligands of each isomer with the DNA phosphate backbone. Gel electrophoretic assays of hel...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Barton JK

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have performed an 4-ns MD simulation of calmodulin complexed with a target peptide in explicit water, under realistic conditions of constant temperature and pressure, in the presence of a physiological concentration of counterions and using Ewald summation to avoid truncation of long-range electrostatic forces. Dur...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Yang C,Kuczera K

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbonic anhydrases catalyze the reversible hydration of carbon dioxide to form bicarbonate, a reaction required for many functions such as carbon assimilation, pH acid-base homeostasis, respiration and photosynthesis via a zinc-hydroxide mechanism for carbon dioxide hydration. In earlier studies, it was revealed that...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Yadav PR,Basha SH,Pindi PK

更新日期：2020-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Interaction of levocabastine with human serum albumin (HSA) is investigated by applying fluorescence spectroscopy, circular dichroism spectroscopy and molecular docking methods. Levocabastine is an important drug in treatment of allergy and currently a target drug for drug repurposing to treat other diseases like vern...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Almutairi FM,Ajmal MR,Siddiqi MK,Majid N,Al-Alawy AIA,Abdelhameed AS,Khan RH

更新日期：2020-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Resonance Raman spectra with Q-band excitation are reported for microperoxidase-11, the cytochrome c analog. Spectra were acquired in the mid-frequency range for the oxidized, and reduced forms of the undecapeptide, as well as for the imidazole and carbonyl complexes. Oxidation and spin state marker bands of the undec...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Laberge M,Vreugdenhil AJ,Vanderkooi JM,Butler IS

更新日期：1998-06-01 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：:Chlamydia trachomatis (C.t) is a major causative of infectious blindness in world. It is a real challenge to combat Chlamydial infection as it is an intracellular pathogen. Hence, it is essential to determine the most potential targets of C.t in order to inhibit or suppress its virulence during its infectious phase. T...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Sadhasivam A,Nagarajan H,Umashankar V

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidermal growth factor (EGF) plays important roles in multiple biological processes, such as the regulation of cell growth, proliferation, and differentiation. EGF exerts their pharmacologic effects via receptor-mediated mechanism associated with high affinity to epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) on the cell su...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Mehrabi M,Khodarahmi R,Shahlaei M

更新日期：2017-04-01 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：: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：:Flap motif and its dynamics were extensively reported in aspartate proteases, e.g. HIV proteases and plasmepsins. Herein, we report the first account of flap dynamics amongst different conformations of β-secretase using molecular dynamics simulation. Various parameters were proposed and a selected few were picked whic...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kumalo HM,Bhakat S,Soliman ME

更新日期：2016-05-01 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：:High-mobility group A1 (HMGA1) is a non-histone chromosomal protein, which is known as 'architectural' transcription factor that facilitates the assembly of 'enhanceosome.' Because of its elevated expression in a number of human malignancies, with barely minimal levels in healthy adults, HMGA1 is considered as potenti...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Akhter MZ,Rajeswari MR

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00