Antimalarial-agent artemisinin and derivatives portray more potent binding to Lys353 and Lys31-binding hotspots of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein than hydroxychloroquine: potential repurposing of artenimol for COVID-19.

abstract：:A general method for generation of base-pairs in a curved DNA structure, for any prescribed values of helical parameters--unit rise (h), unit twist (theta), wedge roll (theta R) and wedge tilt (theta T), propeller twist (theta p) and displacement (D) is described. Its application for generation of uniform as well curv...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Bhattacharya D,Bansal M

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reproducibility of melting curves for repeated hybridizations of target DNA with generic oligonucleotide microchips is shown experimentally to depend on the character of matching between fragments of target DNA and immobilized oligonucleotides. The reproducibility of melting curves is higher for the perfect match ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Lebed JB,Chechetkin VR,Turygin AY,Shick VV,Mirzabekov AD

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The new Corona-virus, recently called the severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) appears for the first time in China and more precisely in Wuhan (December 2019). This disease can be fatal. Seniors, and people with other medical conditions (diabetes, heart disease…), may be more vulnerable and becom...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Aanouz I,Belhassan A,El-Khatabi K,Lakhlifi T,El-Ldrissi M,Bouachrine M

更新日期：2020-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of new potential inhibitors against Hedgehog pathway activator protein Smoothened (SMO) is considered to be of higher importance to improvise the future cancer therapeutics. Different SMO inhibitors/drugs (e.g. Cyclopamine, Vismodegib, Taladegib) used till date are found to be associated with several dr...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Sinha N,Chowdhury S,Sarkar RR

更新日期：2018-08-01 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：: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：:Using Fourier transform, we investigate the structural characteristics of genomes for several viruses. The mutual correlations and ordering of the different nucleotides in genomes are compared versus their counterparts from the random sequences with the same nucleotide composition. In order to assess the stastical sig...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Chechetkin VR,Knizhnikova LA,Turygin AYu

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A procedure is described for the complete resolution of concentration profiles of oligonucleotide triplexes as a function of pH and temperature. The pH and temperature ranges at which triplexes are present and the relative concentrations of all the species involved in acid-base and conformational equilibria are succes...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Jaumot J,Aviña A,Eritja R,Tauler R,Gargallo R

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple statistical approach for the analysis of biological sequences, such as splice-sites, promoter regions, helices and extended structure forming regions or any other sequence dependent functional entities in proteins, is presented. The approach has been proved useful to develop a method for prediction of such en...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Reddy BV,Pandit MW

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a neuraminidase sequence analysis of thirty-two pediatric patients with influenza B who visited Teikyo University Hospital from January 2016 to March 2017, and found oseltamivir-resistant samples belonging to the Yamagata and Victoria lineages. Comparison with the neuraminidase sequence of oseltamivir-sus...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kato Y,Takahashi K,Ito F,Suzuki S,Fukui K,Mimaki M,Suzuki K

更新日期：2020-05-25 00:00:00

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

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Gonçalves RL,Leite TCR,Dias BP,Caetano CCDS,de Souza ACG,Batista UDS,Barbosa CC,Reyes-Sandoval A,Coelho LFL,Silva BM

更新日期：2020-11-06 00:00:00

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

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kargatov AM,Efimov AV

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computations on the energy profiles for Na+ in the gramicidin A (GA) channel have been extended by introducing the effect, previously neglected, of the amino acid side chains of GA, fixed in their most stable conformations. The calculations have been performed in two approximations: 1) with the ethanolamine tail fixed...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Etchebest C,Pullman A

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes is very much known as a wide-spread disorder all around the world with serious complications for the diabetic patient. In order to reduce these complications, inhibition the activity of aldose reductase (AR) and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) enzymes is a proposed pathway. Within this work potency of curcumin (CUR)...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Mirzaei M,Harismah K,Soleimani M,Mousavi S

更新日期：2020-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The signaling response of TLR2 to ligands has always been as a homodimer or in heterodimerization with TLR1/TLR6. The Toll/Interleukin-1 Receptor (TIR) domain of the TLR cytoplasmic region regulates the dimerization and interactions with adaptor molecules to build an active signaling complex. To understand the conserv...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Ghosh SK,Saha B,Banerjee R

更新日期：2020-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Crystals of the small ribosomal subunit from Thermus thermophilus diffract to 3A and exhibit reasonable isomorphism and moderate resistance to irradiation. A 5A MIR map of this particle shows a similar shape to the part assigned to this particle within the cryo-EM reconstructions of the whole ribosome and contains reg...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Auerbach T,Pioletti M,Avila H,Anagnostopoulos K,Weinstein S,Franceschi F,Yonath A

更新日期：2000-02-01 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：:Sirtuin 2 is a key enzyme in gene expression regulation that is often associated with tumor proliferation control and therefore is a relevant anticancer drug target. Anilinobenzamide derivatives have been discussed as selective sirtuin 2 inhibitors and can be developed further. In the present study, hologram and three...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Ferreira GM,Magalhães JG,Maltarollo VG,Kronenberger T,Ganesan A,Emery FDS,Trossini GHG

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV protease inhibitors (PIs) approved by the FDA (US Food and Drug Administration) are a major class of antiretroviral. HIV-2 protease (PR2) is naturally resistant to most of them as PIs were designed for HIV-1 protease (PR1). In this study, we explored the impact of amino-acid substitutions between PR1 and PR2 on th...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Triki D,Kermarrec M,Visseaux B,Descamps D,Flatters D,Camproux AC,Regad L

更新日期：2020-10-01 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

abstract：:The availability of a significant number of the structures of helical membrane proteins has prompted us to investigate the mode of helix-helix packing. In the present study, we have considered a dataset of alpha-helical membrane proteins representing structures solved from all the known superfamilies. We have describe...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Jha AN,Vishveshwara S

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the years the structural properties of nucleic acids have been of interest, providing data that may be of importance for DNA and RNA organization and function in the cell. We have attempted to look for the formation of parallel RNA-RNA duplexes in vitro. RNA molecules comprising complementary in the same polarity...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Tchurikov NA,Ponomarenko NA,Golova YB,Chernov BK

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditionally biased usage of synonymous codons renders selective advantage to proteins expressed at high levels with a few exceptions like in Escherichia coli. Proteome-wide characteristics indicative of trends in highly expressed proteins of E. coli is analyzed in this communication. Implications for the nature of i...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kahali B,Ghosh TC

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-strand oligonucleotide complexes are employed to assess the effect of base stacking and base pair mismatch on the relative thermodynamic stabilities of oligonucleotide duplexes. The melting behavior of three-strand oligonucleotide complexes incorporating nicks and gaps as well as internal single base mismatches ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Murphy D,Doyle H,Eritja R,Redmond G

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stoichiometric amounts of poly-L-lysine were added to site-specifically spin labeled single stranded nucleic acids and the resulting complexes analyzed by electron spin resonance spectroscopy (ESR). The nucleic acids were spin labeled to different extents and with labels of varying tether length. The ESR data are used...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Bobst AM,Kao SC,Bobst EV,Pauly GT

更新日期：1985-10-01 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 reactive α-oxoaldehyde, methylglyoxal reacts with different proteins to form Advanced Glycation End Products (AGEs) through Maillard reaction. Its level increases significantly in diabetic condition. Here, we have investigated the effect of different concentrations of methylglyoxal (200-400 µM) on the monomeric pr...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Banerjee S

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermodynamic and structural properties of two UNCG tetraloops in very short hairpin octamers, 5'-r(GCUUCGGC)-3' and 5'-r(GCUACGGC)-3', have been studied by means of various physical techniques. Melting profiles of both octamers, obtained from UV absorption spectra taken as a function of temperature, are consistent wi...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Abdelkafi M,Ghomi M,Turpin PY,Baumruk V,Hervé du Penhoat C,Lampire O,Bouchemal-Chibani N,Goyer P,Namane A,Gouyette C,Huynh-Dinh T,Bednárová L

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three dimensional models of NB-ARC domains in five different proteins were constructed based on the recently published crystal structure of the apoptotic protease activating factor 1, of which two are for tomato species, one each for flax, Arabidopsis, and nematode. Standard multiple sequence alignment was performed f...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Chattopadhyaya R,Pal A

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dengue virus is becoming a major global disease; the envelope protein is the major target for vaccine development against Dengue. Nowadays, the attention has focused on developing inhibitors based on Papain is a promising target for treating Dengue. In the present work, the theoretical studies of E-protein(Cys74-Glu79...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Saranya V,Radhika R,Shankar R,Vijayakumar S

更新日期：2020-04-06 00:00:00