In silico studies of the inhibition mechanism of dengue with papain.

abstract：:Transcription factor NAM-B1 has a major role in the process of senescence, which results in higher Fe and Zn concentrations in grains of wild wheat (T. durum; Td). The absence of the wild type NAMB1 in T. aestivum (Ta), one of the cardinal crops essential for more than 1/3rd of the global population, affects Fe and Zn...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kaul T,Eswaran M,Ahmad S,Thangaraj A,Jain R,Kaul R,Raman NM,Bharti J

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Galantamine (Gnt) is a natural alkaloid inhibitor of acetylcholinesterase and is presently one of the most used drugs in the treatment against Alzheimer's disease during both the initial and intermediate stages. Among several natural Gnt derivatives, sanguinine (Sng) and lycoramine (Lyc) attract attention because of t...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Rocha REO,Lima LHF

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Runt domain proteins are eukaryotic transcription factors that regulate major developmental pathways. All members of this family contain a highly-conserved sequence-specific DNA binding domain: the Runt domain (RD). Structural and biochemical studies have shown that the Runt domain undergoes a conformational trans...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Suad O,Eyal E,Blumenzweig I,Kessler N,Levanon D,Groner Y,Shakked Z

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuum finite element material models used for traumatic brain injury lack local injury parameters necessitating nanoscale mechanical injury mechanisms be incorporated. One such mechanism is membrane mechanoporation, which can occur during physical insults and can be devastating to cells, depending on the level of ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Murphy MA,Mun S,Horstemeyer MF,Baskes MI,Bakhtiary A,LaPlaca MC,Gwaltney SR,Williams LN,Prabhu RK

更新日期：2019-03-01 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：:A vast research has been conducted to find suitable and safe carriers for vital and pH-sensitive drugs including antibiotics. This article reports the use of easily accessible and abundant purified beta-lactoglobulin (β-LG) protein as the potential carrier of widely used Kanamycin (Kana) and Ciprofloxacin (Cip) antibi...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Mehraban MH,Odooli S,Yousefi R,Roghanian R,Motovali-Bashi M,Moosavi-Movahedi AA,Ghasemi Y

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple relation exists between the packing density in crystals of short A-DNA duplexes and their global double-helical structure. The volume per nucleotide pair shows a linear inverse correlation with the mean displacement of base pairs from the best straight helix axis. The mean displacement is a measure of major g...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Heinemann U

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family of covalent complexes between oligonucleotides and derivatives of the intercalating agent 9-amino acridine has been synthesized (Asseline, U., Thuong, N.T. and Helene, C. (1983) C.R.Acad. Sci. (Paris) 297 (III), 369-372) and studied (Lancelot, G., Asseline, U., Thuong, N.T., and Helene, C. (1985) Biochemistry...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Cieplak P,Rao SN,Hélène C,Montenay-Garestier T,Kollman PA

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With a view to understanding the structural requirement for tyrosine phosphorylation, we have examined the free and Ca(2+)-bound conformations of the synthetic peptide tBoc-Leu-Pro-Tyr-Ala-NHCH3, a substrate for a protein tyrosine kinase, using circular dichroism (CD), 1H and 13C nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and m...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Ananthanarayanan VS,Saint-Jean A,Cheesman BV,Hughes DW,Bain AD

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the plant constituents of Clerodendrum colebrookianum Walp., acteoside, martinoside, and osmanthuside β6 interact with ROCK, a drug target for cancer. In this study, aglycone fragments of these plant constituents (caffeic acid, ferulic acid, and p-coumaric acid) along with the homopiperazine ring of fasudil (sta...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Arya H,Yadav CS,Lin SY,Syed SB,Charles MRC,Kannadasan S,Hsieh HP,Singh SS,Gajurel PR,Coumar MS

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The AKT isoforms are a group of key kinases that play a critical role in tumorigenesis. These enzymes are overexpressed in different types of cancers, such as breast, colon, prostate, ovarian, and lung. Because of its relevance the AKT isoforms are attractive targets for the design of anticancer molecules. However, it...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Trejo-Soto PJ,Hernández-Campos A,Romo-Mancillas A,Medina-Franco JL,Castillo R

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:β-lactoglobulin (β-LG) is a member of lipocalin superfamily of transporters for small hydrophobic molecules such as retinoids. We located the binding sites of retinol and retinoic acid on β-LG in aqueous solution at physiological conditions, using FTIR, CD, fluorescence spectroscopic methods, and molecular modeling. T...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Belatik A,Kanakis CD,Hotchandani S,Tarantilis PA,Polissiou MG,Tajmir-Riahi HA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MutSα is the most abundant mismatch-binding factor of human DNA mismatch repair (MMR) proteins. MMR maintains genetic stability by recognizing and repairing DNA defects. Failure to accomplish their function may lead to cancer. In addition, MutSα recognizes at least some types of DNA damage making it a target for antic...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Negureanu L,Salsbury FR Jr

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations of any subunit of the troponin complex may lead to serious disorders. Rational approaches to managing these disorders require knowledge of the complex interactions among the three subunits that are required for proper function. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were performed for both skeletal (sTn) and ca...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Varughese JF,Chalovich JM,Li Y

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hinge-bending in T4 lysozyme has been inferred from single amino acid mutant crystalline allomorphs by Matthews and coworkers. This raises an important question: are the different conformers in the unit cell artifacts of crystal packing forces, or do they represent different solution state structures? The objective of...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Arnold GE,Manchester JI,Townsend BD,Ornstein RL

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to examine whether chiral metal complexes can be used to discriminate between right- and left-handed DNA conformational states we have studied the enantioselective interactions of Fe(phen)3(2+) and Ru(phen)3(2+) (phen = 1,10-phenanthroline) with poly(dGm5dC) under B- and Z-form conditions. With the inversion-...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Härd T,Hiort C,Nordén B

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large amount of experimental evidence is available on the effect of magnesium ions on the structure and stability of DNA double helix. Less is known, however, on how these ions affect the stability and dynamics of the molecule. The static time average pictures from X-ray structures or the quantum chemical energy min...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Mukherjee S,Bhattacharyya D

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional aspect of several mycobacterium proteins annotated as hypothetical are yet to be discovered. In the present investigation, in silico approaches were used to predict the biological function of some of the unknown Mtb proteins, which were further validated by wet lab experiments. After screening thousands...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kumar A,Sharma A,Kaur G,Makkar P,Kaur J

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of SrtA inhibitors targeting the biothreat organism namely Bacillus anthracis was achieved by the combined approach of pharmacophore modeling, binding interactions, electron transferring capacity, ADME, and Molecular dynamics studies. In this study, experimentally reported Ba-SrtA inhibitors (pyridazin...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Selvaraj C,Singh SK

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) is a major DNA double strand breaks (DSBs) repair pathway that maintains genome integrity. However, this pathway may reduce radiotherapy efficacy by repairing DSBs on cancer cells. This research reported a computer-aided drug design (CADD) method to identify novel inhibitors from trad...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Sun MF,Chang TT,Chang KW,Huang HJ,Chen HY,Tsai FJ,Lin JG,Chen CY

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer, being among the most serious diseases, causes many deaths every year. Many investigators have devoted themselves to designing effective treatments for this disease. Cancer always involves abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body. In contrast, tumor suppressor genes...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Chen L,Yang J,Huang T,Kong X,Lu L,Cai YD

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:P-glycoprotein (P-gp) is a main factor contributing to multidrug resistance. The effect of this transporter protein on limiting the effectiveness of chemotherapy has been shown by various studies. In a previous report, we synthesized some 14-dihydropyridine (DHP) derivatives as inhibitors of human P-gp. In the present...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Shahraki O,Zargari F,Edraki N,Khoshneviszadeh M,Firuzi O,Miri R

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our previous work on structural polymorphism shown at a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) (A → G) site located on HS4 region of locus control region (LCR) of β-globin gene has established a hairpin → duplex equilibrium corresponding to A → B like DNA transition (Kaushik M, Kukreti, R., Grover, D., Brahmachari, S.K....

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kaushik M,Kukreti S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simplified multidimensional search was applied to determine the structure of deoxyhexamer CGCGCG in the crystal form belonging to the space group C222(1) (a = 45.6 A, b = 37.3 A, c = 70.3 A). This crystal form contains two Z-DNA duplexes per asymmetric unit in a similar orientation. The search consists of several ma...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Strokopytov BV,Malinina LV

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystatins are classical competitive inhibitors of C1 family cysteine proteases (papain family). Phytocystatin superfamily shares high sequence homology and typical tertiary structure with conserved glutamine-valine-glycine (Q-X-V-X-G) loop blocking the active site of C1 proteases. Here, we develop a cysteine-bounded c...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Mishra M,Singh V,Tellis MB,Joshi RS,Pandey KC,Singh S

更新日期：2020-12-09 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：:The hypothetical protection of genes from oxidative damage provided by the G-rich telomeric overhangs located at the end of chromosomes, which consist, in humans, of single strands of TTAGGG sequence repeats, is investigated here. First principle Moller-Plesset perturbation theory calculations reveal that the TTAGGG h...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Cauët E

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine receptors (ARs) belong to family A of GPCRs that are involved in many diseases, including cerebral and cardiac ischemic diseases, immune and inflammatory disorders, etc. Thus, they represent important therapeutic targets to treat these conditions. Computational techniques such as molecular dynamics (MD) simu...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Martínez-Archundia M,Correa-Basurto J,Montaño S,Rosas-Trigueros JL

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In negatively supercoiled DNA molecules some inverted repeat sequences adopt a perturbed conformation which is characterised by the following properties. They are centrally hypersensitive to single-strand-specific nucleases such as S1, and to a much lower extent the flanking regions may also be sensitive. They are als...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Lilley DM,Hallam LR

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coumarin molecules have biological activities possessing lipid-controlling activity, anti-hepatitis C activity, anti-diabetic, anti-Parkinson activity, and anti-cancer activity. Here, we have presented an inclusive study on the interaction of 8-substituted-7-hydroxy coumarin derivatives (Umb-1/Umb-2) with α-1-glycopro...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Yeggoni DP,Manidhar DM,Suresh Reddy C,Subramanyam R

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00