Computational identification of natural product leads that inhibit mast cell chymase: an exclusive plausible treatment for Japanese encephalitis.

abstract：:SARS-CoV-2 cause fatal infection in 213 countries accounting for the death of millions of people globally. In the present study, phytochemicals from spices were assessed for their ability to interact with SARS-CoV-2 MPro. Structure based virtual screening was performed with 146 phytochemicals from spices using Autodoc...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Rajendran M,Roy S,Ravichandran K,Mishra B,Gupta DK,Nagarajan S,Arul Selvaraj RC,Provaznik I

更新日期：2020-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluorescent 2-aminopurine probe (2-AP) incorporated into the loop of 23-mer RNA hairpin of HIV-1 genome dimerization initiation site (DIS) was used for discrimination of specific and unspecific binding of paromomycin and spermine to the kissing loop dimer (KD) formed in solution. While both ligands stabilized the ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kaluzhny DN,Beniaminov AD,Minyat EE

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the Tetrahymena thermophila rRNA IVS sequence with the aim of obtaining a model of the structure characterized by the bases proximity of the self-reactions sites. The considered sequence kept up those fragments essential for its catalytic activity as demonstrated by deletion mutants. The first step was the ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Benedetti G,Morosetti S

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human male germ cell-associated kinase (hMAK) is an androgen-inducible gene in prostate epithelial cells, and it acts as a coactivator of androgen receptor signaling in prostate cancer. The 3D structure of the hMAK kinase was modeled based on the crystal structure of CDK2 kinase using comparative modeling methods, and...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Tanneeru K,Balla AR,Guruprasad L

更新日期：2015-01-01 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 polymorphism exhibited by the mismatched octamer d(m5C-G-m5C-G-T-G-m5C-G), as a function of the temperature, DNA concentration and ionic strength, was investigated by means of NMR spectroscopy. It is shown that this partly self-complementary DNA fragment, under conditions of low DNA concentration (0.4 mM) and low ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Orbons LP,van der Marel GA,van Boom JH,Altona C

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Supercoiling causes global twist of DNA structure and the supercoiled state has wide influence on conformational transition. A statistical mechanical approach was made for prediction of the transition probability to non-B DNA structures under torsional stress. A conditional partition function was defined as the sum ov...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Katsura S,Makishima F,Nishimura H

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of Δ- and Λ-[Ru(phen)2DPPZ]2+ (DPPZ = dipyrido[3,2-a:2', 3'-c]phenazine, phen = phenanthroline) with a G-quadruplex formed from 5'-G2T2G2TGTG2T2G2-3'(15-mer) was investigated. The well-known enhancement of luminescence intensity (the 'light-switch' effect) was observed for the [Ru(phen)2DPPZ]2+ complex...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Park JH,Lee HS,Jang MD,Han SW,Kim SK,Lee YA

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The technique of transient electric birefringence was used to investigate the orientation of agarose solutions in pulsed electric fields. If the agarose was dissolved in deionized water, the sign of the birefringence was positive when the electric field was small, indicating that the agarose molecules were orienting p...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Stellwagen NC,Stellwagen D

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:EcoRII DNA methyltransferase (M.EcoRII) recognizes the DNA sequence 5'.CC*T/AGG.3' and catalyzes the transfer of the methyl group from S-adenosyl-L-methionine to the C5 position of the inner cytosine residue (C*). We obtained several DNA duplexes containing photoactive 5-iodo-2'-deoxyuridine (i(5)dU) or 5-[4-(3-(trifl...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Koudan EV,Subach OM,Korshunova GA,Romanova EA,Eritja R,Gromova ES

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At high binding densities acridine orange (AO) forms complexes with ds DNA which are insoluble in aqueous media. These complexes are characterized by high red- and minimal green-luminescence, 1:1 (dye/P) stoichiometry and resemble complexes of AO with ss nucleic acids. Formation of these complexes can be conveniently ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kapuscinski J,Darzynkiewicz Z

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel Coronavirus or SARS-CoV-2 has received worldwide attention due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which originated in Wuhan, China leading to thousands of deaths to date. The SARS-CoV-2 Spike glycoprotein protein is one of the main focus of COVID-19 related research as it is a structural protein that facilitates its atta...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Ahamad S,Kanipakam H,Gupta D

更新日期：2020-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The preferred conformation of orexin-B, an orphan G-protein coupled receptor agonist (the human sequence is RSGPPGLQGRLQRLLQASGNHAAGILTM-NH(2)) has been determined by (1)H and (13)C 2D NMR spectroscopy and molecular modeling. Orexin-B has been implicated in sleep-wakefulness and feeding regulation. The membrane mimeti...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Miskolzie M,Lucyk S,Kotovych G

更新日期：2003-12-01 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：: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：: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：:The selective recognition of the aminoterminal binding pharmacophore Tyr-D-Xaa-Phe of the opioid heptapeptide dermorphin, Tyr-D-Ala-Phe-Gly-Tyr-Pro-Ser-NH2 (DRM)1, and of dermenkephalin, Tyr-D-Met-Phe-His-Leu-Met-Asp-NH2 (DREK), by the mu-opioid receptor and delta-opioid receptor, respectively, depends upon the consti...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Riand J,Baron D,Nicolas P,Benajiba A,Teng Y,Naim M

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A stably-bound external binding site for ethidium cation in the major groove of B-form DNA is proposed. This complex is stabilized by hydrogen bonding between this ligand and the nucleophilic centers O6 and N7 of guanine, both of which are accessible via the major groove. This binding site is not the same as the well-...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Monaco RR

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the anticancer compounds from tormentic acid derivatives, a quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) model was developed by the multiple linear regression methods. The developed QSAR model yielded a high activity-descriptors relationship accuracy of 94% referred by regression coefficient (r2 = .9...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Alam S,Khan F

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections by Candida albicans in immune compromised patients cause significant morbidity and mortality. In the search for potential molecular targets for drug development, the family of agglutinin-like proteins (Als) in C. albicans have been identified due to numerous attributes associated with high virulence, most p...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： von Ranke NL,Bello ML,Cabral LM,Castro HC,Rodrigues CR

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A useful property of DMSO solvent has been exploited to reveal a new catalytic route for cytidine amino proton exchange, relevant to exchange in the macromolecular state, but hidden in aqueous solution. Additional exchange mechanisms in aqueous monomeric cytidine (and adenosine) are obscured by the formation of a fast...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： McConnell B

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 1H NMR relaxation effects produced by paramagnetic Cr(III) complexes on nucleoside 5'-mono- and -triphosphates in D2O solution at pH' = 3 were measured. The paramagnetic probes were [Cr(III)(H2O)6]3+, [Cr(III)(H2O)3(HATP)], [Cr(III)(H2O)3(HCTP)] and [Cr(III)(H2O)3(UTP)-, while the matrix nucleotides (0.1 M) were H...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Cini R,Giorgi G,Laschi F,Rossi C,Marzilli LG

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conversion of the rod-like tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) virions into "ball-like particles" by thermal denaturation at 90-98 °C had been described by R.G. Hart in 1956. We have reported recently that spherical particles (SPs) generated by thermal denaturation of TMV at 94-98 °C were highly stable, RNA-free, and water-ins...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Dobrov EN,Nikitin NA,Trifonova EA,Parshina EY,Makarov VV,Maksimov GV,Karpova OV,Atabekov JG

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influences of substoichiometric amounts of seven plant extracts in the Fenton reaction-mediated damage to deoxynucleosides, deoxynucleoside monophosphates, deoxynucleoside triphosphates, and supercoiled plasmid DNA were studied to rationalize anticancer properties reported in some of these extracts. Extracts from ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kar I,Chattopadhyaya R

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efforts to limit the spread of the tuberculosis epidemic have been challenged by the rise of drug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the causative agent of tuberculosis. It is critical to discover new chemical scaffolds acting on novel or unexploited targets to beat this drug-resistant pathogen...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Pandey P,Chatterjee S,Berida T,Doerksen RJ,Roy S

更新日期：2020-12-22 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：:Human major histocompatibility complex class I (MHC I) - or human leukocyte antigen (HLA) - proteins present intracellularly processed peptides to cytotoxic T lymphocytes in the adaptive immune response to pathogens. A high level of polymorphism in human MHC I proteins defines the peptide-binding specificity of thousa...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Serçinoğlu O,Ozbek P

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The NIa protease of Potyviridae is the major viral protease that processes potyviral polyproteins. The NIa protease coding region of Cardamom mosaic virus (CdMV) is amplified from the viral cDNA, cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli. NIa protease forms inclusion bodies in E.coli. The inclusion bodies are solubiliz...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Jebasingh T,Pandaranayaka EP,Mahalakshmi A,Kasin Yadunandam A,Krishnaswamy S,Usha R

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is an ongoing global health emergency. Repurposing of approved pharmaceutical drugs for COVID-19 treatment represents an attractive approach to quickly identify promising drug candidates. SARS-CoV-2 main protease...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Mandour YM,Zlotos DP,Alaraby Salem M

更新日期：2020-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomeric DNA sequences are known to adopt unusual DNA structures upon protonation when contained into negatively supercoiled DNA. In this paper, the structural properties of (T2AG3)n telomeric sequences of different length is analyzed in detail. Transition to the protonated form is observed at very low pH for (T2AG3)...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Huertas D,Lipps H,Azorín F

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00