Simulating the antimicrobial mechanism of human β-defensin-3 with coarse-grained molecular dynamics.

abstract：:MutSα is the most abundant mismatch-binding factor of human DNA mismatch repair (MMR) proteins. MMR maintains genetic stability by recognizing and repairing DNA defects. Failure to accomplish their function may lead to cancer. In addition, MutSα recognizes at least some types of DNA damage making it a target for antic...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Negureanu L,Salsbury FR Jr

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:Inside a living cell there can be a variety of interactions for any given protein, which serve to regulate denaturation and renaturation processes. Insights into some of them can be obtained by in vitro studies using various denaturing agents. In this study, all-atom MD simulations in explicit solvent and NMR relaxati...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Borkar A,Rout MK,Hosur RV

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:Small heat shock protein16.3 (sHSP16.3) is a crucial protein for survival of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) in its host. Besides, this protein acts as a molecular chaperone during stress and is indispensable for MTB's growth, virulence and cell-wall thickening. sHSP16.3 is also a promising candidate for vaccine, ser...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Jee B,Kumar S,Yadav R,Singh Y,Kumar A,Sharma N

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanoma is a malignant cancer of the skin associated with a high mortality. Early medical diagnosis and surgical intervention are essential for the treatment of melanoma. The use of plant-based compounds is an important strategy for the prevention and treatment of different types of cancers. Curcumin is a promising n...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Ghazaeian M,Khorsandi K,Hosseinzadeh R,Naderi A,Abrahamse H

更新日期：2020-08-07 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：:In this study, various molecular dynamics simulations were conducted to investigate the effects of ethanol and temperature on the conformational changes of human lysozyme, which may lead insights into amyloidosis. The analyses of some important structural characteristics, such as backbone root-mean-square deviation, s...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Liu HL,Wu YC,Zhao JH,Fang HW,Ho Y

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:P21-activated kinase-1 (PAK1) is an enzyme associated with multiple metabolic networks and different types of cancers. Hence, there is a need to study the global network map of PAK1 to understand its role and regulatory mechanisms by means of its significant molecular interactive partners. This will help to explore it...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Yellapu NK,Pulaganti M,Pakala SB

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noonan syndrome (NS) is a common autosomal dominant congenital disorder which could cause the congenital cardiopathy and cancer predisposition. Previous studies reported that the knock-in mouse models of the mutant D61G of SHP2 exhibited the major features of NS, which demonstrated that the mutation D61G of SHP2 could...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Li HL,Ma Y,Zheng CJ,Jin WY,Liu WS,Wang RL

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-association of α-synuclein (αS) into pathogenic oligomeric species and subsequent formation of highly ordered amyloid fibrils is linked to the Parkinson's disease. So most of the recent studies are now focused on the development of potential therapeutic strategies against this debilitating disease. β-synuclein (β...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Sanjeev A,Sahu RK,Mattaparthi VSK

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During translation, aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases recognize the identities of the tRNAs to charge them with their respective amino acids. The conserved identities of 58,244 eukaryotic tRNAs of 24 invertebrates and 45 vertebrates in genomic tRNA database were analyzed and their novel features extracted. The internal promo...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Mitra S,Das P,Samadder A,Das S,Betai R,Chakrabarti J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simple molecular docking calculations on quercetin, kojic acid and diethylcarbamatodithoic acid using the software package MOE are shown to be close to the geometries reported in the X-ray crystal structures of the protein co-crystallized with the respective ligands. Furthermore, DFT optimization of the docked conform...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Malkhasian AY,Howlin BJ

更新日期：2016-11-01 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 first fully energy-minimized structures for a series of structurally related metal complexes of the important mammalian metal binding protein metallothionein are described. The structures were calculated based on structural information obtained from existing spectroscopic and crystallographic data, and minimized u...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Fowle DA,Stillman MJ

更新日期：1997-02-01 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：:Changes in glycosylation pattern leads to malignant transformations among the cells. In combination with upregulated actions of sialyltransferases, it ultimately leads to differential expression of sialic acid (SA) at cell surface. Given its negative charge and localization to extracellular domain, SA has been exploit...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Patel A,Tiwari S,Jha PK

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 1H NMR relaxation effects produced by paramagnetic Cr(III) complexes on nucleoside 5'-mono- and -triphosphates in D2O solution at pH' = 3 were measured. The paramagnetic probes were [Cr(III)(H2O)6]3+, [Cr(III)(H2O)3(HATP)], [Cr(III)(H2O)3(HCTP)] and [Cr(III)(H2O)3(UTP)-, while the matrix nucleotides (0.1 M) were H...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Cini R,Giorgi G,Laschi F,Rossi C,Marzilli LG

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug efflux pumps (EP) like Mmr in Mycobacterium transported drugs out of cell, a main reason for drug resistance developing in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In this in silico study, mainly analysed EP inhibitory potential of a plant-derived flavonoid, quercetin, through docking analysis. Mmr present in Mycobacterium sm...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Suriyanarayanan B,Sarojini Santhosh R

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of various structures by self-assembling single stranded DNA molecules is a widely used technology in the filed of DNA nanotechnology. Base sequences of single strands do predict the shape of the resulting nanostructure. Therefore, sequence design is crucial for the successful structure fabrication. This pa...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Seiffert J,Huhle A

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) is an enzyme that initiates polyamine synthesis in human. Polyamines play key roles in cell-cell adhesion, cell motility and cell cycle regulation. Higher synthesis of polyamines also occurs in rapidly proliferating cancer cells are mediated by ODC. As per earlier studies, di-flouro-methy...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Sivashanmugam M,K N S,V U

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Partial proteolysis of the lambda cI repressor has been carried out systematically with trypsin, chymotrypsin, elastase, endoproteinase Glu-C, kallikrein, and thrombin. The cleavage sites have been determined by (i) comparison of fragments produced and observed in SDS-polyacrylamide gel with known fragments and plots ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Pal A,Chattopadhyaya R

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of the nonclassical pi kappa base pair (7-methyl-oxoformycin B. . .2,4-diaminopyrimidine) was studied at the ab initio Hartree-Fock (HF) and MP2 levels using the 6-31G* and 6-31G** basis sets. The pi kappa base pair is bound by three parallel hydrogen bonds with the donor-acceptor-donor recognition patte...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Florián J,Leszczyński J

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crystalline complexes of yeast tRNA(phe) and the oligopeptide antibiotics netropsin and distamycin A were prepared by diffusing drugs into crystals of tRNA. X-ray structure analyses of these complexes reveal a single common binding site for both drugs which is located in the major or deep groove of the tRNA T-stem. Th...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Rubin J,Sundaralingam M

更新日期：1984-08-01 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：:The recent COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 has recorded a high number of infected people across the globe. The virulent nature of the virus makes it necessary for us to identify promising therapeutic agents in a time-sensitive manner. The current study utilises an in silico based drug repurposing approach to id...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Khan RJ,Jha RK,Singh E,Jain M,Amera GM,Singh RP,Muthukumaran J,Singh AK

更新日期：2020-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular modeling and molecular dynamics were performed to investigate the interaction of norfloxacin with the DNA oligonucleotide 5'-d(ATACGTAT)(2). Eight quinolone-DNA binding structures were built by molecular modeling on the basis of experimental results. A 100ps molecular dynamics calculation was carried out on ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Lee HM,Kim JK,Kim SK

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptide- and protein-protein dockings were carried out on β2-adrenergic receptor (β2AR) to confirm the presence of transmembrane helix 6 (TM6) at the interface region between two β2AR monomers, thereby its possible role in dimerization as suggested in numerous experimental and computational studies. Initially, a porti...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Koroglu A,Akten ED

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase IV (CaMKIV) is a multifunctional enzyme which belongs to the Ser/Thr kinase family. CaMKIV plays important role in varieties of biological processes such as gene expression regulation, memory consolidation, bone growth, T-cell maturation, sperm motility, regulation of microt...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Naz H,Shahbaaz M,Haque MA,Bisetty K,Islam A,Ahmad F,Hassan MI

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

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

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kargatov AM,Efimov AV

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00