BODIPY for photodynamic therapy applications: computational study of the effect of bromine substitution on 1O2 photosensitization.

abstract：:Hydrogenoxalate (charge -1) and oxalate (charge -2) anions and their solvated forms were studied by various computational techniques. Ab initio quantum chemical calculations in gas phase, in implicit solvent and microsolvated (up to 32 water molecules) environment were performed in order to explore a potential energy ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Kroutil O,Minofar B,Kabeláč M

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mechanical molecular rotation model for liquid crystal (LC) systems is employed to evaluate phase transition temperature of fluorinated phenylbicyclohexane isomeric LC compounds. Results show that when a fluorine atom is substituted along the molecular long axis, an LC molecule acquires high rotational speed and its...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Ma H,Li ZX,Shi DH,Liu YF

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Z-DNA-binding domain of human double-stranded RNA adenosine deaminase I (hZαADAR1) can specifically recognize the left-handed Z-DNA which preferentially occurs at alternating purine-pyrimidine repeats, especially the CG-repeats. The interactions of hZαADAR1 and Z-DNAs in different sequence contexts can affect many...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Wang Q,Li L,Wang X,Liu H,Yao X

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The geometric and electronic structures, absorption spectra, transporting properties, chemical reactivity indices and electrostatic potentials of the planar three-coordinate organoboron compounds 1-2 and twisted reference compound Mes(3)B, have been investigated by employing density functional theory (DFT) and concept...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Jin JL,Li HB,Lu T,Duan YA,Geng Y,Wu Y,Su ZM

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical and chemical adsorption of CO2 on ZnO surfaces were studied by means of two different implementations of periodic density functional theory. Adsorption energies were computed and compared to values in the literature. In particular, it was found that the calculated equilibrium structure and internuclear distan...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Farias SA,Longo E,Gargano R,Martins JB

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular geometry, vibrational frequencies, gauge including atomic orbital (GIAO) (1)H and (13)C chemical shift values and several thermodynamic parameters of 5-(2-Hydroxyphenyl)-4-(p-tolyl)-2,4-dihydro-1,2,4-triazole-3-thione in the ground state have been calculated by using the Hartree-Fock (HF) and density fun...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Dinçer M,Avci D,Sekerci M,Atalay Y

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membranolytic anticancer peptides (ACPs) are drawing increasing attention as potential future therapeutics against cancer, due to their ability to hinder the development of cellular resistance and their potential to overcome common hurdles of chemotherapy, e.g., side effects and cytotoxicity. In this work, we present ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Grisoni F,Neuhaus CS,Hishinuma M,Gabernet G,Hiss JA,Kotera M,Schneider G

更新日期：2019-04-05 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：:The complementarity plot (CP) is an established validation tool for protein structures, applicable to both globular proteins (folding) as well as protein-protein complexes (binding). It computes the shape and electrostatic complementarities (Sm, Em) for amino acid side-chains buried within the protein interior or inte...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Basu S

更新日期：2017-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantum chemical calculations were performed for LiNH2-HMgX (X=H, F, Cl, Br, CH3, OH, and NH2) complexes to propose a new interaction mechanism between them. This theoretical survey showed that the complexes are stabilized through the combinative interaction of magnesium and lithium bonds. The binding energies are in ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Yang X,Li Q,Cheng J,Li W

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparative theoretical investigation into the change in strength of the trigger-bond upon formation of the Na(+), Mg(2+) and HF complexes involving the nitro group of RNO₂ (R = -CH₃, -NH₂, -OCH₃) or the C = C bond of (E)-O₂N-CH = CH-NO₂ was carried out using the B3LYP and MP2(full) methods with the 6-311++G**, 6-31...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Zhang L,Ren FD,Cao DL,Wang JL,Gao JF

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the effects of substituents on the computed electrostatic potentials V(S)(r) and average local ionization energies I(S)(r) on the surfaces of model carbon nanotubes of the types (5,5), (6,1) and (6,0). For the (5,5) and the (6,1), the effects upon both V(S)(r) and I(S)(r) of substituting a hydroxyl gr...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Politzer P,Murray JS,Lane P,Concha MC,Jin P,Peralta-Inga Z

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ladder-type polyheterofluorenes were investigated theoretically by using density functional theory (DFT) to reveal their optical and electronic properties for applications in organic optoelectronic devices. The incorporation of heteroatoms (B, Si, Ge, N, P, O, and S) into the ladder-type highly fused polyfluorene ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Zheng C,Tao Y,Cao JZ,Chen RF,Zhao P,Wu XJ,Huang W

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficiency and high specificity of tobacco etch virus protease (TEVp) has made it widely used for cleavage of recombinant fusion proteins. However, TEVp suffers from a few intrinsic defects such as self-cleavage, poorly expressed in E. coli and less soluble. So some mutants were designed to improve it, such as S21...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Wang Y,Zhu GF,Ren SY,Han YG,Luo Y,Du LF

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the human body for many reasons can adapt and become resistant to drugs, it is important to develop and validate computer aided drug design (CADD) methods that could help predict binding affinity changes that can result from these resistant enzymes. The free energy perturbation (FEP) methodology is the most accu...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Reddy RN,Mutyala RR,Aparoy P,Reddanna P,Reddy MR

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathway and ab initio direct kinetics of the decomposition 5-aminotetrazole (5-ATZ) to HN(3) and NH(2)CN was investigated. Reactant, products and transition state were optimized with MP2 and B3LYP methods using 6-311G** and aug-cc-pVDZ basis sets. The intrinsic reaction coordinate curve of the reaction was calcula...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Zhang JG,Feng LN,Zhang SW,Zhang TL,Zheng HH

更新日期：2008-05-01 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：: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：:Functionalized carbon nanotubes (CNTs) can be used for improving the mechanical properties and load transfer in nanocomposites. In this research, the buckling behavior of perfect and defective cross-linked functionalized CNTs with polyethylene (PE) chains is studied employing molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Two d...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Ajori S,Ansari R,Parsapour H

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between tetramethylcucurbit[6]uril (host) and 5,5'-dimethyl-2,2'-bipyridyl hydrochloride (guest) was studied by 1H NMR, X-ray crystallography, electronic absorption spectroscopy, fluorescence emission spectra and quantum chemistry calculations. This experimental-computational study that indicated the h...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Cong H,Zhao YJ,Xue SF,Tao Z,Zhu QJ

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of selenium species in some biological processes involves the generation of ionic and radical intermediates such as RSe●, RSe-, RSeO●, and RSeO-, among others. We performed a theoretical study of the possible mechanisms for the reaction of the two simplest Se radicals-the hydroselenyl (HSe●) and seleneni...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Vega-Teijido MA,Kieninger M,Ventura ON

更新日期：2017-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Both [5]-circulene and [7]-circulene can be selected to design the molecular tweezers theoretically using the DFT method. Leaning on the cyclic polymerization mechanism, we obtain four new tweezer compounds. Theoretical results offer that tweezer compound (I) is additionally stable than other compounds because it has ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Issa AA,Obayes HR

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent ab initio investigations of some complexes formed between carbon dioxide and its analogues carbonyl sulfide, carbonyl selenide, carbon disulfide, and thiocarbonyl selenide and the common bases ammonia, water, phosphine, and hydrogen sulfide have revealed significant differences between the properties of those c...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Ramasami P,Ford TA

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nature of E-M bonds in CpE-MCp (E = B, Al, Ga; M = Li, Na, K; Cp = η (5)-C5H5) donor-acceptor sandwiches was studied using the atoms in molecules (AIM) theory, electron localization function (ELF), energy decomposition analysis (EDA), and natural bond orbital analysis (NBO) methods. Both topological and orbital an...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Huo S,Meng D,Zhang X,Meng L,Li X

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our recent molecular dynamics (MD) simulation of an insertion/duplication mutant 'L20' of bacteriophage T4 lysozyme demonstrated a solvent induced α→β transition in a loosely held duplicate helical region, while α-helical conformation in the parent region was relatively stabilized by its tertiary interactions with the...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Kaur H,Sasidhar YU

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP)-1 inhibitor represents promising therapy against cancers with a good balance between efficacy and safety. Owing to the conserved structure between PARP-1 and PARP-2, most of the clinical and experimental drugs show equivalent inhibition against both targets. Most recently,...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Cao R

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of tuberculosis infections that are resistant to conventional drug therapy has risen steadily in the last decade. Several of the quinolone antibacterials have been examined as inhibitors of M. tuberculosis infection as well as other mycobacterial infections. However, not much has been done to examine spe...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Bagchi MC,Mills D,Basak SC

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship of Wiener's topochemical index-a distance based topochemical index, molecular connectivity topochemical index-an adjacency based topochemical index and eccentric connectivity topochemical index-an adjacency-cum-distance based topochemical index with sodium channel binding activity has been investigate...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Gupta M,Madan AK

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clindamycin, a lincosamide antibiotic, binds to 23S ribosomal RNA and inhibits protein synthesis. The A2058G mutation in 23S RNA results in bacterial resistance to clindamycin. To understand the influence of this mutation on short-range interactions of clindamycin with 23S RNA, we carried out full-atom molecular dynam...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Kulczycka-Mierzejewska K,Sadlej J,Trylska J

更新日期：2018-07-03 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