PyCPR - a python-based implementation of the Conjugate Peak Refinement (CPR) algorithm for finding transition state structures.

abstract：:The ability to accurately predict the oxidation and reduction potentials of molecules is very useful in various fields and applications. Quantum mechanical calculations can be used to access this information, yet sometimes the usefulness of these calculations can be limited because of the computational requirements fo...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Méndez-Hernández DD,Tarakeshwar P,Gust D,Moore TA,Moore AL,Mujica V

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structures and stabilities of eleven N13+ and N13- isomers have been investigated with second-order Moller-Plesset (MP2) and density functional theory (DFT) methods. Five N13+ isomers and six N13- isomers are all reasonable local minima on their potential energy hypersurfaces. The most stable N13+ cation is struct...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Yin PG,Li QS

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the absence of interlogs, building docking models is a time intensive task, involving generation of a large pool of docking decoys followed by refinement and screening to identify near native docking solutions. This limits the researcher interested in building docking methods with the choice of benchmarking only a ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Mitra P,Pal D

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogen Legionella longbeachae is a causative agent of legionellosis. The antibiotic resistance is the major problem of this modern world. Thus, selective pressure warrants the need for identification of newer drug target. In current study, subtractive proteomics approach screen out SIS (sugar isomerase) domain p...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Ahmad F,Shabaz Z,Azam SS

更新日期：2020-08-03 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：:Recently, great attention has been focused on using epoxy polymers in different fields such as aerospace, automotive, biotechnology, and electronics, owing to their superior properties. In this study, the classical molecular dynamics (MD) was used to simulate the cross linking of diglycidyl ether of bisphenol-A (DGEBA...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Shokuhfar A,Arab B

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The equilibrium structures, spectroscopic and thermodynamic parameters [entropy (S), internal energy (E), heat capacity (C p)] of U₂, U₂O, U₂O₂ and U₂O₄ uranium oxide molecules were investigated systematically using density functional theory (DFT). Our computations indicated that the ground electronic state of U₂ is t...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Li P,Niu WX,Gao T,Wang F,Jia TT,Meng DQ,Li G

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By the use of ellipsoidal coordinates, the two-center Coulomb and hybrid integrals over complete orthonormal sets of Ψα-ETO exponential type orbitals arising in ab initio calculations of molecules are evaluated, where α = 1,0, -1, -2, ...,. These integrals are expressed through the auxiliary functions Q(ns)(q) and G(-...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Guseinov II,Sahin E

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chain tacticity of a polymer is a key influence on its structure and dynamics, which ultimately determine its properties. While they have great potential to elucidate the influence of chain tacticity, all-atom molecular simulations are often restricted to short chains and small systems. In this work, two typical s...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Wu C

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular-dynamics (MD) simulations of urea crystals of different shapes (cubic, rectangular prismatic, and sheet) have been performed using our previously published force field for urea. This force field has been validated by calculating values for the cohesive energy, sublimation temperature, and melting point from ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Özpınar GA,Beierlein FR,Peukert W,Zahn D,Clark T

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Periplasmic binding proteins are the initial receptors for the transport of various substrates over the inner membrane of gram-negative bacteria. The binding proteins are composed of two domains, and the substrate is entrapped between these domains. For several of the binding proteins it has been established that a cl...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Siuda I,Thøgersen L

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, the effect of the external electric field (EF) on the drug delivery performance of peptide-based metal-organic framework (MPF) for 6-mercaptopurine (6-MP) drug is investigated by means of the molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. It is found that the strength interaction of drug molecule with MPF is decre...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Shahabi M,Raissi H

更新日期：2019-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Two important classes of organic molecules, perylene diimide (PDI) and pyrene derivatives have been found to possess relatively excellent photophysical and photochemical properties and especially high two-photon absorption cross sections (δ(T)(max)). Herein, one-photon absorption (OPA) and two-photon absorption (TPA) ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Liu XT,Zhao Y,Ren AM,Feng JK

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:5-Nitro-3-trinitromethyl-1H-1,2,4-triazole (NTMT, A) and its substituted derivatives A-CH3, A-OCH3, A-NH2, A-OH, A-NO2, and A-ONO2 were studied using density functional theory (DFT). For all of the molecules except for A-ONO2, the C-NO2 bond in the trinitromethyl group was found to be the weakest, and no transition st...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Zhang X,Gong X

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural hIFNγ is a glycoprotein with two N-glycosylation sites in each monomer chain, which are independently and differentially glycosylated. Although glycosylation is not necessary for the activity of the cytokine, it was proposed that it protects the cytokine from proteolytic degradation and thus extends its circul...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Lilkova E,Petkov P,Ilieva N,Krachmarova E,Nacheva G,Litov L

更新日期：2019-04-25 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：:The ion-pair S(N)2 reaction LiNCS + CH3F with two mechanisms, inversion and retention, was investigated at the MP2(full)/6-311+G**//HF/6-311+G** level in the gas phase and in acetone solution. All HF-optimized structures were confirmed by vibrational frequency analysis. Based on IRC analyses, eight possible reaction p...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Ren Y,Li M,Wong NB,Chu SY

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological toxicity of uranyl ion (UO (2) (2+) ) lies in interacting with proteins and disrupting their native functions. The structural and functional consequences of UO (2) (2+) interacting with cytochrome b (5) (cyt b (5)), a small membrane heme protein, and its heme axial ligand His39Ser variant, cyt b (5) H39...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Wan D,Liao LF,Zhao MM,Wu ML,Wu YM,Lin YW

更新日期：2012-03-01 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：:Metallo-β-lactamases (MβLs) can hydrolyze and deactivate lactam-containing antibiotics, which are the major mechanism to cause drug resistance in the treatment of bacterial infections. This has become a global concern due to the lack of clinically approved inhibitors so far. SMB-1 from Serratia marcescents is a novel ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Mu X,Xu D

更新日期：2020-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The hydration free energies, structures, and dynamics of open- and closed-shell trivalent lanthanide and actinide metal cations are studied using molecular dynamics simulations (MD) based on a polarizable force field. Parameters for the metal cations are derived from an ab initio bottom-up strategy. MD simulations of ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Marjolin A,Gourlaouen C,Clavaguéra C,Ren PY,Piquemal JP,Dognon JP

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The applicability of the newly developed PM6 method for modeling proteins is investigated. In order to allow the geometries of such large systems to be optimized rapidly, three modifications were made to the conventional semiempirical procedure: the matrix algebra method for solving the self-consistent field (SCF) equ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Stewart JJ

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Very recently, an unprecedented novel monometallic cluster of fullerenes entrapping a yttrium cyanide (YCN) cluster inside a popular C82 cage YCN@Cs(6)-C82 was synthesized and characterized. Inspired by this investigation, four non-IPR YCN@C1(17459)-C76, YCN@C2v(19138)-C76, YCN@C2(17646)-C76, and YCN@C1(17894)-C76 (1,...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Gao FW,Xu HL,Su ZM

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NBO-NJC decomposition of vicinal (3)J HH spin-spin coupling constants into Lewis, delocalization, and repolarization contributions are presented. A deep study allows to assign the main contributions to specific orbitals or electron delocalizations between two orbitals. (3)J HH torsional dependence and the substituent ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： García de la Vega JM,San Fabián J

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:4-hydroxybenzoate oligoprenyltransferase of E. coli, encoded in the gene ubiA, is an important key enzyme in the biosynthetic pathway to ubiquinone. It catalyzes the prenylation of 4-hydroxybenzoic acid in position 3 using an oligoprenyl diphosphate as a second substrate. Up to now, no X-ray structure of this oligopre...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Bräuer L,Brandt W,Wessjohann LA

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:B-C binary monolayers and fullerenes (borafullerenes) have received considerable attention in recent years. Inspired by the newly reported B4C3 semiconducting boron carbide monolayer isovalent to graphene (Tian et al., Nanoscale, 2019, 11, 11099), we predict herein at density functional theory level a new class of bor...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Yan M,Tian XX,Pei L,Ma YY,Zan WY,Mu YW,Li SD

更新日期：2020-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A coarse-grained Brownian dynamics model was used to simulate two proteins of similar sizes inside model membrane pores of varying size and hydrophobicity. The two proteins, which have radii of gyration of approximately 9.5 Å in their native states, are a 36-residue hydrophilic villin head piece (HP-36) and a 40-resid...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Zhang Y,Zhang Y,McCready MJ,Maginn EJ

更新日期：2019-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Performance of 18 DFT functionals (B1B95, B3LYP, B3PW91, B97D, BHandHLYP, BMK, CAM-B3LYP, HSEh1PBE, M06-L, mPW1PW91, O3LYP, OLYP, OPBE, PBE1PBE, tHCTHhyb, TPSSh, wB97xD, VSXC) in combinations with six basis sets (cc-pVDZ, aug-cc-pVDZ, cc-pVTZ, aug-cc-pVTZ, IGLO-II, and IGLO-III) and three methods for calculating magne...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Toomsalu E,Burk P

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although molecularly targeted therapy with imatinib has improved treatments of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), clinical resistance gradually develops in patients with accelerated or blast phase CML. The inability of imatinib to cure CML suggests that inactivation of BCR-ABL kinase activity alone is not sufficient to c...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Shao S,Yu R,Yu Y,Li Y

更新日期：2014-08-01 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