Studying the chemical reactivity properties of the target tumor-environment tripeptides NGR (asparagine-glycine-arginine) and RGD (arginine-glycine-aspartic acid) in their interactions with tamoxifen through conceptual density functional theory.

abstract：:In this work molecular modeling was applied to generate homology models of the pore region of the Na(v)1.2 and Na(v)1.8 isoforms of human voltage-gated sodium channels. The models represent the channels in the resting, open, and fast-inactivated states. The transmembrane portions of the channels were based on the equi...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Scheib H,McLay I,Guex N,Clare JJ,Blaney FE,Dale TJ,Tate SN,Robertson GM

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fine-tuning of magnetic states via an understanding of spin injection on the edge of graphene nanoribbons should allow for greater flexibility of the design of graphene-based spintronics. On the basis of calculations, we predict that coupling constants of the exchange interaction in the series of nitroxide-functionali...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Morozov V,Tretyakov E

更新日期：2019-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidermal growth factor receptors (EGFR) are associated with a number of biological processes and are becoming increasingly recognized as important therapeutic targets against cancer. In this work, we provide models based on homology for the extracellular domains (ECD) of ErbB3 and ErbB4 in their active conformations,...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Franco-Gonzalez JF,Ramos J,Cruz VL,Martínez-Salazar J

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermotropic polyurethanes with mesogenic groups in side chains were prepared from two diisocyanates and four diols with stoichiometric ratios of reactive isocyanate (NCO) and hydroxy (OH) groups. Their thermal behavior was determined by differential scanning calorimetry. The effect of structure modifications of the d...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Repáková J,Capková P,Studenovský M,Ilavský M

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structures, energetics, as well as several important chemical parameters, of antiretroviral drugs - nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) - and natural deoxyribonucleosides in both neutral, and positively and negatively charged states, are investigated. These studies are carried out within the frame ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Kumar V,Kishor S,Ramaniah LM

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trocarin belongs to group D of prothrombin activators derived from snake venom of Tropidechis carinatus and is a rich non-hepatic source of Xa, the only known hepatic prothrombin activator. The structural and functional similarity with Xa makes trocarin an interesting target for exploring the structure-functional rela...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Venkateswarlu D,Krishnaswamy S,Darden TA,Pedersen LG

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A density functional theory augmented by the long-range corrected hybrid density functional ωB97XD and 6-31G(d,p) basis set has been applied to generate sandwich structures consist of nanocomposites between graphene oxide and polyvinyl alcohol. We predicted the interaction energies and discuss the contribution of elec...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Gorb L,Ilchenko M,Leszczynski J

更新日期：2020-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The density functional theory method using the B3LYP/6-31G(d,p) level of theory was used to perform isoenergetic maps in order to determine the lower energy conformers of four disaccharides constituting alginic acids, which are based on β-D-mannuronic (M) and α-L-guluronic acid (G), called MM, GG, MG, and GM. The pref...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Bekri L,Zouaoui-Rabah M,Springborg M,Rahal MS

更新日期：2018-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanical properties of graphene- and carbon nanotube-reinforced Araldite LY 5052/Aradur HY 5052 epoxy resins were investigated by molecular dynamics simulations. The COMPASS II force field was implemented in the simulations. Mechanical properties of the reinforced araldite/aradur resin epoxy system with CNT reveal t...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Faragi S,Hamedani A,Alahyarizadeh G,Minuchehr A,Aghaie M,Arab B

更新日期：2019-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the increasing complexity of simulated molecular systems, and the fact that simulation times have now reached milliseconds to seconds, immense amounts of data (in the gigabyte to terabyte range) are produced in current molecular dynamics simulations. Manual analysis of these data is a very time-consuming task, a...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Victor Paul Raj FR,Exner TE

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Remarkable advances have been made in the drug therapy of tuberculosis. However much remains to be learned about the molecular and structural basis of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It is known that, activation of Isoniazid (INH) is mediated by Mycobacterium tuberculosis catalase-peroxidase (MtBKatG) a...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Purohit R,Rajendran V,Sethumadhavan R

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The geometries, relative stabilities of some 4(7) and 5(6) substituted 2-hydroxybenzimidazole derivatives were calculated with full geometry optimization using AM1 and PM3 in aqueous phase. With the exception of molecules 4, 6 and 7 for all the 4(7) and 5(6) substituted 2-hydroxybenzimidazole derivatives the 3H and ke...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Oğretir C,Yarligan S,Berber H,Arslan T,Topal S

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heme-AB binding energies (AB = CO, O2) in a wild-type myoglobin (Mb) and two mutants (H64L, V68N) of Mb have been investigated in detail with both DFT and dispersion-corrected DFT methods, where H64L and V68N represent two different, opposite situations. Several dispersion correction approaches were tested in the ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Liao MS,Huang MJ,Watts JD

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We here report a combined quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) molecular dynamics (MD) study on the binding interactions between the α(V)β₃ integrin and eight cyclic arginine-glycine-aspartate (RGD) containing peptides. The initial conformation of each peptide within the binding site of the integrin was det...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Xiang M,Lin Y,He G,Chen L,Yang M,Yang S,Mo Y

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular modeling of the La(III) complex of 3,3'-(benzylidene)bis(4-hydroxycoumarin) (PhDC) was performed using density functional theory (DFT) methods at B3LYP/6-31G(d) and BP86/TZP levels. Both Stuttgart-Dresden effective core potential and ZORA approximation were applied to the La(III) center. The electron density...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Mihaylov T,Trendafilova N,Georgieva I

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the dynamics of an electron subjected to a uniform electric field in the scope of a tight-binding electron-phonon interacting approach. We aimed at describing the transport in a one-dimensional lattice in which the on-site energies are distributed according to a Fibonacci sequence. Within this physical...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： de Brito PE,Enders BG,Ribeiro LA Jr,Nazareno HN

更新日期：2019-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen-rich heterocycles and their nitro derivatives are one of the important classes of energetic materials. In the present study, the computational methods have been applied to determine the thermodynamic and detonation properties of nitro derivatives of BN indole molecule. Structure optimization and electronic en...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Gupta S,Singh HJ

更新日期：2020-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:First principles calculations have been performed for C60@C180 carbon double-layer endofullerenes with up to: three diatomic radioiodine molecules (131I2), two potassium radio-iodide (K131I), and three sodium radio-iodide (Na131I) inside. The plane-wave pseudopotential (PP) method within the general gradient approxima...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Valderrama A,Reynoso R,Gómez RW,Quintana M,Romero M

更新日期：2017-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Adsorption of paracresol and water into the silicalite-1 (MFI) zeolite has been investigated using canonical and grand-canonical Monte Carlo simulations. The most stable sites of adsorption of paracresol are found to be located at the channel intersections. Grand-canonical simulations have shown that at low loading, w...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Boulet P,Narasimhan L,Berg'e-Lefranc D,Kuchta B,Schäf O,Denoyel R

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present work, C-F bond cleavage mediated by the super-reduced form of cobalamin (i.e., CoICbl) was theoretically studied at the ONIOM(BP86/6-311++G(d,p):PM6) + SMD level of theory. Dispersion effects were introduced by employing Grimme's empirical dispersion at the ONIOM(BP86-D/6-311++G(d,p):PM6) + SMD level. I...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Cortés-Arriagada D,Toro-Labbe A,Mora JR,Rincón L,Mereau R,Torres FJ

更新日期：2017-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding geometry of fluorouracil/cucurbit[n]urils (CB[n]s) complexes with n = 5-8 is investigated using the first-principles van der Waals density functional (vdW-DF) method, involving full geometry optimization. Such host-guest complexes are typically calculated using conventional DFT method, which significantly ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Sabet M,Ganji MD

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of terminal GLY114* deletion on the binding affinity of the PA-IIL lectin toward L: -fucose was investigated. Both experimental (isothermal titration calorimetry) and computational (molecular dynamics simulations) methods have shown that the deletion mutation decreases the L-fucose affinity. It implies that...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Wimmerová M,Mishra NK,Pokorná M,Koca J

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The shuttling motion of a macrocycle in rotaxane-based molecular switching devices has been studied by computational density functional methods. In the test case, energy profiles corresponding to the dethreading process of different types of guest molecules in a cyclobis(paraquat-p-phenylene) host verified the experim...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Hirva P,Haukka M,Pakkanen TA

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus anthracis has been employed as an agent of bioterrorism, with high mortality, despite anti-microbial treatment, which strongly indicates the need of new drugs to treat anthrax. Shikimate pathway is a seven step biosynthetic route which generates chorismic acid from phosphoenol pyruvate and erythrose-4-phospha...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Barcellos GB,Caceres RA,de Azevedo WF Jr

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we report a structure-based virtual screening of the ZINC database (containing about five million compounds) by computational docking and the analysis of docking energy calculations followed by in vitro screening against H. pylori urease enzyme. One of the compounds selected showed urease inhibition in the low m...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Azizian H,Nabati F,Sharifi A,Siavoshi F,Mahdavi M,Amanlou M

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The character of the bridged hydrogen atom (Hb) of B2H6 has become a hot issue in recent years. In this work, the complexes B2H6 · · · NH3, B2H2X4 · · · nNH3 (n = 1, 2) and 2HF · · · B2H2X4 · · · 2NH3 (X = Cl, Br, I) were constructed and studied based on the M06-2X calculations to investigate how to enhance the Hb · ·...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Gao L,Zhang X,Meng L,Zeng Y

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The geometrical, conformational, and electronic properties of a series of D-π-A metal-free dyes designed for use as sensitizers in DSSCs were studied using DFT and TD-DFT methods. A substituted triphenylamine moiety was used as the donor group and 2-cyanoacrylic acid as the acceptor group in these dyes. They also cont...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Hasanein AA,Elmarassi YR,Kassem EN

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a scheme to estimate hydrogen isotope effects on molecular polarizabilities. This approach combines the any-particle molecular orbital method, in which both electrons and H/D nuclei are described as quantum waves, with the auxiliary density perturbation theory, to calculate analytically the polarizability t...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Moncada F,Flores-Moreno R,Reyes A

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conjugate peak refinement (CPR) is a powerful and robust method to search transition states on a molecular potential energy surface. Nevertheless, the method was to the best of our knowledge so far only implemented in CHARMM. In this paper, we present PyCPR, a new Python-based implementation of the CPR algorithm withi...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Gisdon FJ,Culka M,Ullmann GM

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work focuses on the role of the dynamic hydrogen bonds (HB) formed in an aqueous solution of aspirin using molecular dynamics simulation. The statistics reveal the existence of internal HB that inhibit the rotational movements of the acetyl and the carboxylic acid groups, forcing the molecule to adopt a closed co...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Donnamaria MC,de Xammar Oro JR

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00