PEG and mPEG-anthracene conjugate with trypsin and trypsin inhibitor: hydrophobic and hydrophilic contacts.

abstract：:In the present work, we propose to design drugs that target the enzyme dihydrofolate redutase (DHFR) as a means of a novel drug therapy against plague. Potential inhibitors of DHFR from Yersinia pestis (YpDHFR) were selected by virtual screening and subjected to docking, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, and Poisso...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Bastos Lda C,de Souza FR,Guimarães AP,Sirouspour M,Cuya Guizado TR,Forgione P,Ramalho TC,França TC

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydroxylation of proline or lysine residues in proteins is a common post-translational modification event, and such modifications are found in many physiological and pathological processes. Nonetheless, the exact molecular mechanism of hydroxylation remains under investigation. Because experimental identification of h...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Jia CZ,He WY,Yao YH

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of calf-thymus DNA with cobalt-hexammine and cobalt-pentammine cations was investigated, in aqueous solution at pH 6-7 with cation/DNA(phosphate) molar ratios r = 1/80, 1/40, 1/20, 1/10, 1/4, 1/2 and 1, using Fourier Transform infrared (FTIR) difference spectroscopy. Correlations between spectral chang...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Tajmir-Riahi HA,Naoui M,Ahmad R

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PPARα and PPARγ play important roles in regulating glucose and lipid metabolism. In recent years, the development of dual PPAR agonists has become a hot topic in the field of anti-diabetic medicinal chemistry. The dual PPARα/γ agonists can both improve metabolism and reduce side effects caused by single drugs, and has...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Feng XY,Ding TT,Liu YY,Xu WR,Cheng XC

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer (BC) is the second most prevalent cancer worldwide. Estrogen receptor beta (ERβ) is an essential protein of breast cells to suppress estrogen-induced uncontrolled proliferation. Thus, small molecules that can modulate and enhance ERβ expression would be an effective agent to suppress BC development. Stud...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Bhattacharjee A,Hossain MU,Chowdhury ZM,Rahman SMA,Bhuyan ZA,Salimullah M,Keya CA

更新日期：2020-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A general method for generation of base-pairs in a curved DNA structure, for any prescribed values of helical parameters--unit rise (h), unit twist (theta), wedge roll (theta R) and wedge tilt (theta T), propeller twist (theta p) and displacement (D) is described. Its application for generation of uniform as well curv...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Bhattacharya D,Bansal M

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A potential anti-Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) agent with novel mode of action is urgently needed to fight against drug resistance HIV. The HIV capsid protein is important for both late and early stages of the viral replication cycle and emerged as a promising target for the developing of small molecule inhibitor...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Bhole RP,Bonde CG,Bonde SC,Chikhale RV,Wavhale RD

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In negatively supercoiled DNA molecules some inverted repeat sequences adopt a perturbed conformation which is characterised by the following properties. They are centrally hypersensitive to single-strand-specific nucleases such as S1, and to a much lower extent the flanking regions may also be sensitive. They are als...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Lilley DM,Hallam LR

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothetical protection of genes from oxidative damage provided by the G-rich telomeric overhangs located at the end of chromosomes, which consist, in humans, of single strands of TTAGGG sequence repeats, is investigated here. First principle Moller-Plesset perturbation theory calculations reveal that the TTAGGG h...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Cauët E

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple relation exists between the packing density in crystals of short A-DNA duplexes and their global double-helical structure. The volume per nucleotide pair shows a linear inverse correlation with the mean displacement of base pairs from the best straight helix axis. The mean displacement is a measure of major g...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Heinemann U

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycation and oxidation induce structural alterations in the proteins in an interdependent manner with consequent pathological implications. The published literature presents wide range of modifications in conformational characteristics of proteins by glycation and oxidation; however, there is little data that could e...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Islam S,Moinuddin,Mir AR,Raghav A,Habib S,Alam K,Ali A

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the years the structural properties of nucleic acids have been of interest, providing data that may be of importance for DNA and RNA organization and function in the cell. We have attempted to look for the formation of parallel RNA-RNA duplexes in vitro. RNA molecules comprising complementary in the same polarity...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Tchurikov NA,Ponomarenko NA,Golova YB,Chernov BK

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Repetitive basic polypeptides containing lysine or arginine as every third amino acid were shown to cause DNA condensation at physiological salt concentration connected with selective DNA binding with respect to DNA composition and sequence. This selectivity is very similar to that existing in the case of histone H1 a...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Sponar J,Votavová H

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear quadrupole relaxation is a sensitive measure of electrolyte environments. We used the relaxation of 23Na to probe mobile ion-matrix interactions and the electrostatic structure of the polyelectrolyte extracellular matrix of cartilage. Specifically, we measured spin-lattice and spin-spin relaxation times of 23N...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Dai H,McFarland EW

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The unavailability of vaccine and medicines raised serious issues during COVID-19 pandemic and peoples from different parts of world relied on traditional medicine for their immediate recovery from COVID-19 and it found effective also. The current research aims to target COVID-19 immunological human host receptors i.e...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Noor H,Ikram A,Rathinavel T,Kumarasamy S,Nasir Iqbal M,Bashir Z

更新日期：2021-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The intercalative binding of chiral tris(phenanthroline) metal complexes to DNA is stereo-selective. The enantiomeric selectivity is based upon the differential steric interactions between the two non-intercalating phenanthroline ligands of each isomer with the DNA phosphate backbone. Gel electrophoretic assays of hel...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Barton JK

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The simplest form of macromolecular design involves the ligation of nucleic acids. Recent results on the concatenation of nucleic acid junctions show that these molecules can act as fairly rigid macromolecular valence clusters on the nanometer scale. These clusters can be joined to form closed stick figures in which e...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Seeman NC

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipases A(2) (PLA(2)) are enzymes commonly found in snake venoms from Viperidae and Elaphidae families, which are major components thereof. Many plants are used in traditional medicine as active agents against various effects induced by snakebite. This article presents the PLA(2) BthTX-I structure prediction ba...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Hage-Melim LI,da Silva CH,Semighini EP,Taft CA,Sampaio SV

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a major worldwide public health emergency that has infected over 8 million people. Spike glycoprotein, especially the partially open state of S1 subunit, in SARS-CoV-2 is considered vital for its infection with human host cell. However, the mech...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Tian H,Tao P

更新日期：2020-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae hemolysin (HlyA) is a 65 kDa pore-forming toxin which causes lysis of target eukaryotic cells by forming heptameric channels in the plasma membrane. Deletion of the 15 kDa C-terminus β-prism carbohydrate-binding domain generates a 50 kDa truncated variant (HlyA50) with 1000-fold-reduced pore-forming ac...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Dutta S,Banerjee KK,Ghosh AN

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Sm and Sm-like proteins are widely distributed among bacteria, archaea and eukarya. They participate in many processes related to RNA-processing and regulation of gene expression. While the function of the bacterial Lsm protein Hfq and eukaryotic Sm/Lsm proteins is rather well studied, the role of Lsm proteins in ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Nikulin A,Mikhailina A,Lekontseva N,Balobanov V,Nikonova E,Tishchenko S

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The insertion of viral DNA into the host chromosome is an essential step in the replication of HIV-1, and is carried out by an enzyme, HIV-1 integrase (IN). Since the latter has no human cellular counterpart, it is an attractive target for antiviral drug design. Several IN inhibitors having activities in the micromola...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Rao GS,Bhatnagar S,Ahuja V

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of SrtA inhibitors targeting the biothreat organism namely Bacillus anthracis was achieved by the combined approach of pharmacophore modeling, binding interactions, electron transferring capacity, ADME, and Molecular dynamics studies. In this study, experimentally reported Ba-SrtA inhibitors (pyridazin...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Selvaraj C,Singh SK

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The flavivirus membrane fusion is triggered by the acid pH of the endosomes after virus endocytosis. The proposed mechanism involves changes in the protonation state of conserved histidine residues of the E protein present in the viral surface that undergoes a series of structural rearrangements that result in the fus...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Fuzo CA,Degrève L

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complexes of NaDNA with the bipyridyl-(ethylenediamine)platintum(II) (abbreviated [(bipy)Pt(en)]2+) molecular ion have been studied in solution via ultraviolet absorption experiments at 260 nm between 50 and 90 degrees C. These measurements, performed as a function of the molar ratio of the [(bipy)Pt(en)]2+ complex to...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Szabó S,Lee SA

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quasi-palindromic sequences (AT) X N12(AT) Y present in HS2 (hypersensitive site 2) of the human β-globin locus are known to be significantly associated with increased fetal hemoglobin (HbF) levels. High HbF levels in some adults ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Roy K,Mahendru S,Kukreti R,Kukreti S

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sharp spurt in positive cases of novel coronavirus-19 (SARS-CoV-2) worldwide has created a big threat to human. In view to expedite new drug leads for COVID-19, Main Proteases (Mpro) of novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has emerged as a crucial target for this virus. Nitric oxide (NO) inhibits the replication cycle o...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Al-Sehemi AG,Pannipara M,Parulekar RS,Patil O,Choudhari PB,Bhatia MS,Zubaidha PK,Tamboli Y

更新日期：2020-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) is a major DNA double strand breaks (DSBs) repair pathway that maintains genome integrity. However, this pathway may reduce radiotherapy efficacy by repairing DSBs on cancer cells. This research reported a computer-aided drug design (CADD) method to identify novel inhibitors from trad...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Sun MF,Chang TT,Chang KW,Huang HJ,Chen HY,Tsai FJ,Lin JG,Chen CY

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analogues of purine bases are highly relevant in the biological context and have been implicated as drug molecules for therapy against a number of diseases. Additionally, these molecules have been implicated to have a role in the prebiotic RNA world. However, experimental data on the structures of these molecules in a...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Gogia S,Puranik M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug efflux mechanism is the main cause of intrinsic drug resistance in bacteria. Mycobacterium multidrug resistant (MMR) protein belongs to small multidrug resistant family proteins (SMR), causing multidrug resistance to proton (H(+))-linked lipophilic cationic drug efflux across the cell membrane. In the presen...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Malkhed V,Mustyala KK,Potlapally SR,Vuruputuri U

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00