The structure of viral cathepsin from Bombyx mori Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus as a target against grasserie: docking and molecular dynamics simulations.

abstract：:Catalase is an important antioxidant enzyme that catalyzes the disproportionation of H2O2 into harmless water and molecular oxygen. Due to various applications of the enzyme in different sectors of industry as well as medicine, the enhancement of stability of the enzyme is important. Effect of various classes of compa...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Sepasi Tehrani H,Moosavi-Movahedi AA,Ghourchian H,Ahmad F,Kiany A,Atri MS,Ariaeenejad Sh,Kavousi K,Saboury AA

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive motor-neurone disease, affects individuals usually aged between 50 and 70 years. C21orf2, recently identified as the new ALS susceptibility gene, harbours rare missense mutations that cause this fatal disease. We used bioinformatics and molecular modelling approaches ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Iyer S,Acharya KR,Subramanian V

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinase C (PKC) isozymes are important regulatory enzymes that have been implicated in many diseases, including cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and in the eradication of HIV/AIDS. Given their potential clinical ramifications, PKC modulators, e.g. phorbol esters and bryostatin, are also of great interest in the dru...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Thangsunan P,Tateing S,Hannongbua S,Suree N

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the NaCl-induced condensation of calf thymus chromatin by static light scattering of 90 degrees and shown that the increase in NaCl concentration up to 120-170 mM results in a large increase in scattering intensity of the total chromatin. Histones H1-depleted and trypsinized chromatin preparations do n...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Smirnov IV,Dimitrov SI,Makarov VL

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug re-purposing might be a fast and efficient way of drug development against the novel coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). We applied a bioinformatics approach using molecular dynamics and docking to identify FDA-approved drugs that can be re-purposed to ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Chandel V,Sharma PP,Raj S,Choudhari R,Rathi B,Kumar D

更新日期：2020-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Triple helices with G*G.C and A*A.T base triplets with third GA strands either parallel or antiparallel with respect to the homologous duplex strand have been formed in presence of Na (+) or Mg(2+) counterions. Antiparallel triplexes are more stable and can be obtained even in presence of only monovalent Na(+) counter...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Liquier J,Geinguenaud F,Huynh-Dinh T,Gouyette C,Khomyakova E,Taillandier E

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter baumannii, an important nosocomial pathogen, is increasingly becoming resistant to antibiotics including recent β-lactam like imipenem. Production of different types of β-lactamases is one of the major resistance mechanisms which bacteria adapt. We recently reported the presence of a β-lactamase, OXA-51,...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Tiwari V,Moganty RR

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haloxyfop was reported to exhibit inhibition effect targeting Mycobacterium tuberculosis and pathogenic parasites. To pave its way for drug development, more research is required to determine the affinities interacting with biological receptors in vivo. In this work, the interactions of Haloxyfop with two model transp...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Wang L,Zhang L,Feng RR,Dong X,Lu HZ,Zhang JJ

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in glycosylation pattern leads to malignant transformations among the cells. In combination with upregulated actions of sialyltransferases, it ultimately leads to differential expression of sialic acid (SA) at cell surface. Given its negative charge and localization to extracellular domain, SA has been exploit...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Patel A,Tiwari S,Jha PK

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The specific interaction between lambda phage Cro repressor and the DNA fragment bearing the consensus sequence of operators has been studied using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Using both 15N- and 13C/15N- labeled lambda-Cro in complex with unlabeled DNA, chemical shift assignments of the lambda-Cro-DNA complex w...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Tochio H,Kojima C,Matsuo H,Yamazaki T,Kyogoku Y

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gas-phase gradient optimization was carried out on the canonical Watson-Crick DNA base pairs using the second-order Møller-Plesset perturbation method at the 6-31G(d) and 6-31G(d,p) basis sets. It is detected that full geometry optimization at the MP2 level leads to an intrinsically nonplanar propeller-twisted and buc...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Danilov VI,Anisimov VM

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The solution structure of two double helical nucleic acid fragments, viz, r(CGCGCG) and d(CGCGCG), was probed by means of two-dimensional nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy. The two compounds were selected as models for the A-type and B-type double helical conformations, respectively, and it is shown that for each...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Haasnoot CA,Westerink HP,van der Marel GA,van Boom JH

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformation of the C-terminal octapeptide fragment of Substance P (SP4-11, Pro-Gln-Gln-Phe-Phe-Gly-Leu-Met-NH2) has been investigated by 2D-NMR and MD methods. The octapeptide exists in a blend of conformations. The molecule seems to shuttle between conformations with gamma-bends either at Phe5 or Gly6 or Gln3 or...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Coutinho E,Kamath S,Saran A,Srivastava S

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The coexistence of both A form and B form tracts and formation of an A-B junction in the oligomer d(GGGGGTTTTT).d(AAAAACCCCC) in saturated sodium chloride solution have been detected by Raman spectroscopy. The entire duplex adopts the familiar B-form conformation in aqueous solution at low salt concentrations (0.1M Na...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Wang Y,Thomas GA,Peticolas WL

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pre-mRNA splicing is one of the most complex and intricate processes in eukaryotic cell biology. Over the past decade, my laboratory has been interested in determining the structures of RNA components of the spliceosome, and in investigating how the structure, stability and dynamics of these RNA components are perturb...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Gmeiner WH

更新日期：2002-04-01 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：:Many bacterial genomes have been sequenced and stored in public databases now, of which Reference Sequence (RefSeq) is the most widely used one. However, the annotation in RefSeq is still unsatisfactory. The present analysis is focused on the re-annotation of an important plant pathogen genome Xanthomonas oryzae pv. o...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Lei Y,Kang SK,Gao J,Jia XS,Chen LL

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acute respiratory syndrome caused by the SARS-CoV-2, known as COVID-19, has been ruthlessly tormenting the world population for more than six months. However, so far no effective drug or vaccine against this plague have emerged yet, despite the huge effort in course by researchers and pharmaceutical companies worl...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Almeida JSFD,Botelho FD,de Souza FR,Dos Santos MC,Goncalves ADS,Rodrigues RLB,Cardozo M,Kitagawa DAS,Vieira LA,Silva RSF,Cavalcante SFA,Bastos LDC,Nogueira MOT,de Santana PIR,Brum JOC,Nepovimova E,Kuca K,LaPlante SR,G

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:An ab initio quantum-chemical study of stacked and hydrogen-bonded protonated cytosine dimer has been carried out. The calculations were made using the second-order Moller-Plesset perturbational method (MP2) with a medium-sized polarized set of atomic orbitals. H-bonded as well as stacked protonated base pairs are mor...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Sponer J,Leszczynski J,Vetterl V,Hobza P

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ivermectin (IVM) is a broad-spectrum antiparasitic agent, having inhibitory potential against wide range of viral infections. It has also been found to hamper SARS-CoV-2 replication in vitro, and its precise mechanism of action against SARS-CoV-2 is yet to be understood. IVM is known to interact with host importin (IM...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Azam F,Taban IM,Eid EEM,Iqbal M,Alam O,Khan S,Mahmood D,Anwar MJ,Khalilullah H,Khan MU

更新日期：2020-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of normal cellular apoptosis or programed cell death is the hallmark of all cancers. Apoptotic dysregulation can result in numerous pathological conditions, such as cancers, autoimmune disorders, and neurodegeneration. Members of the BCL-2 family of proteins regulate the process of apoptosis by its promotio...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Anantram A,Kundaikar H,Degani M,Prabhu A

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of spermine binding on the electrostatic potential of DNA is evaluated. The calculations are performed for the essential reactive sites, atoms N7 and O6 of guanine, N3 and N7 of adenine, of the nucleic acid and for its surface envelope. An important weakening of the potential is found affecting all the impo...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Zakrzewska K,Pullman B

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assembly origin (AO) region of the tobacco mosaic virus RNA melts in an usually narrow (2.5 degrees C) temperature range. In an 0.01 M phosphate buffer the melting temperature of AO was found to be 41.5 degrees C. This value corresponds to the regions with the most stable secondary/tertiary structure of the whole ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kelve M,Aruja A,Kooli K,Männik J,Raukas E

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our work investigates the interaction of synthesized graphene with the SARS-CoV-2 virus using molecular docking and molecular dynamics (MD) simulation method. The layer dependent inhibitory effect of graphene nanosheets on spike receptor-binding domain of 6LZG, complexed with host receptor i.e. angiotensin-converting ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Raval B,Srivastav AK,Gupta SK,Kumar U,Mahapatra SK,Gajjar PN,Banerjee I

更新日期：2020-09-11 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：: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：:Molecular dynamics (MD) studies have been carried out on the Hoogsteen hydrogen bonded parallel and the reverse Hoogsteen hydrogen bonded antiparallel C.G*G triplexes. Earlier, the molecular mechanics studies had shown that the parallel structure was energetically more favourable than the antiparallel structure. To ch...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kiran MR,Bansal M

更新日期：1998-12-01 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：: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