Genetics-directed drug discovery for combating Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.

abstract：:Three dimensional models of NB-ARC domains in five different proteins were constructed based on the recently published crystal structure of the apoptotic protease activating factor 1, of which two are for tomato species, one each for flax, Arabidopsis, and nematode. Standard multiple sequence alignment was performed f...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Chattopadhyaya R,Pal A

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:EcoRII DNA methyltransferase (M.EcoRII) recognizes the DNA sequence 5'.CC*T/AGG.3' and catalyzes the transfer of the methyl group from S-adenosyl-L-methionine to the C5 position of the inner cytosine residue (C*). We obtained several DNA duplexes containing photoactive 5-iodo-2'-deoxyuridine (i(5)dU) or 5-[4-(3-(trifl...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Koudan EV,Subach OM,Korshunova GA,Romanova EA,Eritja R,Gromova ES

更新日期：2002-12-01 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：:Acinetobacter baumannii, a Gram-negative pathogen causes nosocomial infections including pneumonia, urinary tract and respiratory infections. Carbapenem group of β-lactam antibiotics are routinely used to treat A. baumannii including multidrug-resistant clinical strains. The emergence of New Delhi Metallo-β-lactamase ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Tiwari V,Moganty RR

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations of any subunit of the troponin complex may lead to serious disorders. Rational approaches to managing these disorders require knowledge of the complex interactions among the three subunits that are required for proper function. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were performed for both skeletal (sTn) and ca...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Varughese JF,Chalovich JM,Li Y

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reaction mechanisms of two isomeric bay-region diol epoxides of 5-methylchrysene (trans-1,2-dihydroxy-anti-3,4-epoxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-5-methylchrysene (DE-I) and trans-7,8-dihydroxy-anti-9,10-epoxy-7,8,9,10-tetrahydro-5-methylchrysene (DE-II) with double-stranded DNA in aqueous solutions were studied utilizing k...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kim MH,Roche CJ,Geacintov NE,Pope M,Pataki J,Harvey RG

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that the biological activity of gallated proanthocyanidins (PAs) is highly structure-dependent. Polymerization degree (DP) and linkage types affect their biological activity greatly. Positions and orientations of gallated PAs in lipid bilayer reveal their structure-function activity at the molecular l...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Zhu W,Khalifa I,Peng J,Li C

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the plant constituents of Clerodendrum colebrookianum Walp., acteoside, martinoside, and osmanthuside β6 interact with ROCK, a drug target for cancer. In this study, aglycone fragments of these plant constituents (caffeic acid, ferulic acid, and p-coumaric acid) along with the homopiperazine ring of fasudil (sta...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Arya H,Yadav CS,Lin SY,Syed SB,Charles MRC,Kannadasan S,Hsieh HP,Singh SS,Gajurel PR,Coumar MS

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Silk materials are receiving significant attention as base materials for various functional nanomaterials and nanodevices, due to its exceptionally high mechanical properties, biocompatibility, and degradable characteristics. Although crystalline silk regions are composed of various repetitive motifs with differing am...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kim Y,Lee M,Choi H,Baek I,Kim JI,Na S

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the present study was to evaluate the effects of propolis, pollen, and caffeic acid phenethyl ester (CAPE) on tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) activity and total RNA levels of Nω-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME) inhibition of nitric oxide synthase in the heart, adrenal medulla, and hypothalamus of hype...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Ekhteiari Salmas R,Durdagi S,Gulhan MF,Duruyurek M,Abdullah HI,Selamoglu Z

更新日期：2018-02-01 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：:In the present study, the impact of chromium(III) complexes ([Cr(salen)(H2O)2](+) (1), [Cr(en)3]3+ (2) and [Cr(EDTA)(H2O)]- (3)) on the biophysical properties of mucin like specific viscosity, zeta potential and particle size has been investigated. It is evident from the present investigation that the nature of the co...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Shrivastava HY,Sreeram KJ,Nair BU

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional aspect of several mycobacterium proteins annotated as hypothetical are yet to be discovered. In the present investigation, in silico approaches were used to predict the biological function of some of the unknown Mtb proteins, which were further validated by wet lab experiments. After screening thousands...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kumar A,Sharma A,Kaur G,Makkar P,Kaur J

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medicinal herbs have proved along history to be a source of multiple cures. In this paper, we demonstrate how hydroxychloroquine can act as a good inhibitor of SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein receptor-binding-domain using molecular docking studies. We also unveil how hydroxychloroquine can interfere in the prevention of Lys3...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Sehailia M,Chemat S

更新日期：2020-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription factors regulate gene expression through binding to specific DNA sequences. How transcription factors achieve high binding specificity is still not well understood. In this paper, we investigated the role of protein flexibility in protein-DNA-binding specificity by comparative molecular dynamics (MD) sim...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Song W,Guo JT

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conversion of the rod-like tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) virions into "ball-like particles" by thermal denaturation at 90-98 °C had been described by R.G. Hart in 1956. We have reported recently that spherical particles (SPs) generated by thermal denaturation of TMV at 94-98 °C were highly stable, RNA-free, and water-ins...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Dobrov EN,Nikitin NA,Trifonova EA,Parshina EY,Makarov VV,Maksimov GV,Karpova OV,Atabekov JG

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tyrosinase plays an important role in melanin biosynthesis and protects skin against ultraviolet radiations. Functional deficiency of tyrosinase results in serious dermatological diseases. Tyrosinase also participates in neuromelanin formation in the human brain, which leads to neurodegeneration resulting in Parkinson...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Ghayas S,Ali Masood M,Parveen R,Aquib M,Farooq MA,Banerjee P,Sambhare S,Bavi R

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most fibrous polynucleotides of general sequence exhibit secondary structures that are described adequately by regular helices with a repeated motif of only one nucleotide. Such helices exploit the fact that A:T, T:A, G:C, and C:G pairs are essentially isomorphous and have dyadically-related glycosylic bonds. Polynucl...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Arnott S,Chandrasekaran R,Banerjee AK,He R,Walker JK

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The model of spatial structure for the principal neutralizing determinant (PND) of the HIV-1 envelope protein gp120 is proposed in terms of two-dimensional nuclear Overhauser effect (NOE) spectroscopy data. To build the model, the NMR-based theoretical conformational analysis of synthetic PND peptides of length 40, 24...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Andrianov AM

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Repeat regions are low-complexity regions in the human genome that largely code for intrinsic disorder in proteins. Expansions outside the normal thresholds in repeat regions are likely to be pathogenic, leading to the so-called repeat expansion diseases. There have been numerous studies on the most common group of re...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Hernandez R,Facelli JC

更新日期：2021-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient interactions between cancer stem cells and components of the tumor microenvironment initiate various signaling pathways crucial for carcinogenesis. Predominant hyaluronan (HA) receptor, CD44 is structurally and functionally one of the most variable cell surface receptors having the potential to generate a di...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Patel S,Shaikh F,Devaraji V,Radadiya A,Shah K,Shah A,Rawal R

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions of a homologous series of four anthraquinone (AQ) intercalators with increasing lengths of polyethylene glycol (PEG) side chains with DNA have been studied via molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The geometry, conformation, interactions, and hydration of the complexes were examined. The geometries of...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Beckford SJ,Dixon DW

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Distribution functions for intra- and inter- HIV-1 V3-loop subtypes amino acid Hamming distances were calculated (850 V3-loop sequences from the Los Alamos HIV-1 Database (1996) were used). These functions have pronounced bell-like shape. Such shapes of the histograms for HIV-1 V3 intra- and inter-subtype distriutions...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Shchelkanov MYu,Starikov NS,Yaroslavtsev IV,Tsvetkov PO,Yudin AN,Denisov MV,Slavsky AA,Vedenov AA,Karamov EV

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At high binding densities acridine orange (AO) forms complexes with ds DNA which are insoluble in aqueous media. These complexes are characterized by high red- and minimal green-luminescence, 1:1 (dye/P) stoichiometry and resemble complexes of AO with ss nucleic acids. Formation of these complexes can be conveniently ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kapuscinski J,Darzynkiewicz Z

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two novel, neutral and water soluble Pd(II) complexes of formula [Pd(Gly)(Ala)] (1) and [Pd(Gly)(Val)] (2) (Gly, Ala, and Val are anionic forms of glycine, alanine, and valine amino acids, respectively) have been synthesized and characterized by FT-IR, UV-Vis, 1H-NMR, elemental analysis, and molar conductivity measure...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Mansouri-Torshizi H,Zareian-Jahromi S,Abdi K,Saeidifar M

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

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：:CgtA is an essential ribosome associated GTPase protein of bacteria. It has three domains, viz., Obg, GTPase, and C-terminal domain. It is a multifunctional protein and it is being considered as a potential drug target against bacterial infections. Despite the importance, CgtA's action mechanisms are not well known wh...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Chatterjee A,Datta PP

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two aminobenzoic acid derivatives DAB-0 and DAB-1 showed distinct biological properties on murine bladder cancer (BCa) cell line MB49-I. In contrast to DAB-1, DAB-0 does not possess any anti-inflammatory activity and is less toxic. Furthermore, DAB-0 does not interfere with INFγ-induced STAT1 activation and TNFα-induc...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Chanphai P,Cloutier F,Oufqir Y,Leclerc MF,Eiján AM,Reyes-Moreno C,Bérubé G,Tajmir-Riahi HA

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Propanidid is an intravenous anesthetic with transient action and rapid recovery features, but it is clinically unacceptable due to its side effects. AZD-3043, an analog of propanidid with the methoxy group substituted by the ethoxy group, has become the focus of recent development efforts. Although propanidid and AZD...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Wang S,Liu Q,Li X,Zhao X,Qiu L,Lin J

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The (+) anti isomer of benz[a]pyrene diol epoxide (BPDE), 7 beta, 8 alpha-dihydroxy-9 alpha, 10 alpha-epoxy-7,8,9,10-tetrahydrobenz [a] pyrene has been identified as the probable tumorigenic lesion in mammalian systems. It forms a predominant adduct with DNA at N2 of guanine. In order to elucidate its conformation in ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Hingerty B,Broyde S

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00