Human dopamine transporter: the first implementation of a combined in silico/in vitro approach revealing the substrate and inhibitor specificities.

abstract：:2019 - Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCOV), enclosed large genome positive-sense RNA virus characterized by crown-like spikes that protrude from their surface, and have a distinctive replication strategy. The 2019-nCOV belongs to the Coronaviridae family, principally consists of virulent pathogens showing zoonotic property,...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Naik VR,Munikumar M,Ramakrishna U,Srujana M,Goudar G,Naresh P,Kumar BN,Hemalatha R

更新日期：2020-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:With the explosive growth of protein sequences entering into protein data banks in the post-genomic era, it is highly demanded to develop automated methods for rapidly and effectively identifying the protein-protein binding sites (PPBSs) based on the sequence information alone. To address this problem, we proposed a p...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Jia J,Liu Z,Xiao X,Liu B,Chou KC

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Geometry optimizations and energy calculations have been carried out via molecular orbital methods at the density functional B3LYP/LANL2DZ level on the molecules PO3-, OPO3(3-), HOPO3(2-), CH3OPO3(2-), H(CH3OPO3)-, O(PO3)2(4-), HO(PO3)2(3-), CH2(PO3)2(4-), (CH3OPO2)O(PO3)3-, O(PO3)3(5-), HO(PO3)3(4-), (PO3)3(3-), (CH3...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Cini R,Chindamo D,Catenaccio M,Lorenzini S,Marcolongo R

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:EhCPADH is a protein complex involved in the virulence of Entamoeba histolytica, the protozoan responsible for human amebiasis. It is formed by the EhCP112 cysteine protease and the EhADH adhesin. To explore the molecular basis of the complex formation, three-dimensional models were built for both proteins and molecul...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Montaño S,Orozco E,Correa-Basurto J,Bello M,Chávez-Munguía B,Betanzos A

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The SARS-CoV-2 is the causative agent of COVID-19 pandemic that is causing a global health emergency. The lack of targeted therapeutics and limited treatment options have triggered the scientific community to develop new vaccines or small molecule therapeutics against various targets of SARS-CoV-2. The main protease (...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Bhardwaj VK,Singh R,Sharma J,Rajendran V,Purohit R,Kumar S

更新日期：2020-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of ligand interacting with native DNA by two types on the parameters of helix-coil transition in homopolymers is considered using the most probable distribution method (Yu.S. Lazurkin et al., Biopolymers 1970). It is shown that at a small relative concentration of ligand the melting enthalpy (delta H) of DN...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Karapetian AT,Vardevanian PO,Tarzikian GA,Frank-Kamenetskii MD

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work has shown that edaravone inhibits fibrillogenesis of amyloid-β protein (Aβ). However, the detailed mechanism by which edaravone inhibits the conformational transition of the Aβ42 monomer is not known at the molecular level. Here, explicit-solvent molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were coupled with mole...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Liu F,Ma Z,Sang J,Lu F

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ebola virus (EboV) is currently ravaging West Africa with estimated case fatality rate of 52%. Currently, no drug treatment is available and immunoglobulin therapy is still at the rudimentary stage. For anti-EboV drug development, druggable viral and host protein targets, including human Furin are under intense invest...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Omotuyi IO

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:Abstract Aromatic stacking of nucleic acid bases is one of the key players in determining the structure and dynamics of nucleic acids. The arrangement of nucleic acid bases with extensive overlap of their aromatic rings gave rise to numerous often contradictory suggestions about the physical origins of stacking and ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Sponer J,Berger I,Spačková N,Leszczynski J,Hobza P

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma. ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Anish Babu A,Karthick K,Subramanian R,Swarnalatha K

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Owing to its negative regulatory role in insulin signaling, protein tyrosine phosphatase of leukocyte antigen-related protein (PTP-LAR) was widely thought as a potential drug target for diabetes. Now, it was urgent to search for potential LAR inhibitors targeting diabetes. Initially, the pharmacophore models of LAR in...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Du S,Yang B,Wang X,Li WY,Lu XH,Zheng ZH,Ma Y,Wang RL

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human C5a (hC5a), one of the pro-inflammatory glycoproteins of the complement system is known to undergo production hyperdrive in response to stress and infection. hC5a has been associated with the pathogenesis of many chronic and acute diseases, due to its proven ability in triggering the 'cytokine storm', by binding...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Mishra R,Behera LM,Rana S

更新日期：2020-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Abstract In order to target the major groove of DNA, we have designed novel peptide derivatives of 7-H pyridocarbazole, which is the chromophoric ring of ditercalinium, a potent antitumor bisin- tercalator. We will present here the results obtained with a compound that has a D-Asn tethered to the pyridinium nitrogen...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Gresh N,René B,Hui XW,Barsi MC,Roques BP,Garbay C

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma membrane of each micro-organism has a unique set of lipid composition as a consequence of the environmental adaptation or a response to exposure to antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) as antibiotic agents. Understanding the relationship between lipid composition and action of antimicrobial peptides or considering how...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Rahmanpour A,Ghahremanpour MM,Mehrnejad F,Moghaddam ME

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parallel version of AMBER 4.1 was ported and optimised on the Indian parallel supercomputer PARAM OpenFrame built around Sun Ultra Sparc processors. This version of AMBER program was then used to carry out molecular dynamics (MD) simulations on 5'-TGACCAGCTGGTC-3', a substrate for PvuII enzyme. MD simulations in water...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kolaskar AS,Joshi RR

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to attempt to determine the extent to which the chemical shifts of the nonexchangeable base protons of a DNA helix depend upon the base sequence. We measured the proton NMR spectra of twelve decadeoxynucleotides in order to carry out a "statistical" treatment. In the helices, the chemical shi...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Shindo H,Okhubo S,Matsumoto U,Giessner-Prettre C,Zon G

更新日期：1988-02-01 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

abstract：:We have performed an 4-ns MD simulation of calmodulin complexed with a target peptide in explicit water, under realistic conditions of constant temperature and pressure, in the presence of a physiological concentration of counterions and using Ewald summation to avoid truncation of long-range electrostatic forces. Dur...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Yang C,Kuczera K

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pebrine is a microsporidian disease caused by Nosema bombycis in Bombyx mori (silk worm) which results in brown/black spots. The affected larvae either spin cocoons which are flimsy with low silk content or not spin a cocoon. It has been hypothesised that Serine Protease Inhibitor 106 (SPN106) is responsible for evasi...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： U M S,Karunakar P,Krishnamurthy V

更新日期：2020-10-01 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：:COVID-19 is an infectious pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The critical components of SARS-CoV-2 are the spike protein (S-protein) and the main protease (Mpro). Mpro is required for the maturation of the various polyproteins involved in replication and transcription. S-protein helps the SARS-CoV-2 to enter the...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Mondal P,Natesh J,Abdul Salam AA,Thiyagarajan S,Meeran SM

更新日期：2020-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:High-mobility group A1 (HMGA1) is a non-histone chromosomal protein, which is known as 'architectural' transcription factor that facilitates the assembly of 'enhanceosome.' Because of its elevated expression in a number of human malignancies, with barely minimal levels in healthy adults, HMGA1 is considered as potenti...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Akhter MZ,Rajeswari MR

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The secondary structure of a bradykinin B(1)receptor antagonist B-10324 (F5C-Lys-(1)- Lys(0)-Arg(1)-Pro(2)- Hyp(3)-Gly(4)-CpG(5)- Ser(6)-DTic(7)-CpG(8)) was determined by NMR at 800MHz. The conformational data are compared with those obtained previously for two bradykinin B(1) receptor antagonists, namely B-9858 (Lys-...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Miskolzie M,Gera L,Stewart JM,Kotovych G

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bruton's tyrosine kinase (Btk) is an important enzyme in B-lymphocyte development and differentiation. Furthermore, Btk expression is considered essential for the proliferation and survival of these cells. Btk inhibition has become an attractive strategy for treating autoimmune diseases, B-cell leukemia, and lymphomas...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Santos-Garcia L,Assis LC,Silva DR,Ramalho TC,da Cunha EF

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichoderma spp. are well-known bioagents for the plant growth promotion and pathogen suppression. The beneficial activities of the fungus Trichoderma spp. are attributed to their ability to produce and secrete certain secondary metabolites such as trichodermin that belongs to trichothecene family of molecules. The in...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kumari I,Chaudhary N,Sandhu P,Ahmed M,Akhter Y

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are membrane-encapsulated particles released by eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells into the extracellular environment. Depending on their origin, size, and composition, EVs are grouped in several classes, with one of them being exosomes, which are small EVs (SEVs) generated within the endoso...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Badierah RA,Uversky VN,Redwan EM

更新日期：2020-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The SHOM method (Sequencing by Hybridization with Oligonucleotide Matrix) developed in 1988 is a new approach to nucleic acid sequencing by hybridization to an oligonucleotide matrix composed of an array of immobilized oligonucleotides. The original matrix proposed for sequencing by SHOM had to contain at least 65,536...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Pevzner PA,Lysov YuP,Khrapko KR,Belyavsky AV,Florentiev VL,Mirzabekov AD

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To provide an in-depth insight into the molecular basis of spontaneous tautomerism in DNA and RNA base pairs, a hybrid Monte Carlo (MC)-quantum chemical (QC) methodology is implemented to map two-dimensional potential energy surfaces along the reaction coordinates of solvent-assisted proton transfer processes in guano...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Markova N,Pejov L,Stoyanova N,Enchev V

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent research has identified chymase, a mast cell-specific protease as an exclusive novel therapeutic target to prevent Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) induced encephalitis. Interestingly, JEV activates mast cell specific chymase during its penetration through blood brain barrier (BBB) which eventually guide to ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kant K,Rawat R,Bhati V,Bhosale S,Sharma D,Banerjee S,Kumar A

更新日期：2020-02-18 00:00:00