Flexibility of A.T pairs in left-handed DNA helices.

abstract：:Erectile dysfunction (ED) is a sexual disorder mainly caused by decrease in cellular concentration of cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP), which is degraded by phosphodiesterase type-5 (PDE-5). As a potent therapeutic target, inhibitors such as Viagra , Cialis, and Levitra have already been developed to target PDE-5...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Chen CY

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new molecular mechanism of trinucleotide expansion diseases is suggested. The mechanism involves the formation of double-helical RNA hairpins by transcripts carrying (CNG)(n) sequences, which are processed via the RNAi pathway with subsequent RNA silencing of genes containing (CNG)(n) sequences. Depletion of protein...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Malinina L

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A stably-bound external binding site for ethidium cation in the major groove of B-form DNA is proposed. This complex is stabilized by hydrogen bonding between this ligand and the nucleophilic centers O6 and N7 of guanine, both of which are accessible via the major groove. This binding site is not the same as the well-...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Monaco RR

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using Fourier transform, we investigate the structural characteristics of genomes for several viruses. The mutual correlations and ordering of the different nucleotides in genomes are compared versus their counterparts from the random sequences with the same nucleotide composition. In order to assess the stastical sig...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Chechetkin VR,Knizhnikova LA,Turygin AYu

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and α-glycosidase (α-gly) inhibition have emerged as a promising and important approach for pharmacological intervention in many diseases such as glaucoma, epilepsy, obesity, cancer, and Alzheimer's. In this manner, the preparation and enzyme inhibition activities of periph...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Koçyiğit ÜM,Taslimi P,Tüzün B,Yakan H,Muğlu H,Güzel E

更新日期：2020-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The algorithms of the analysis of R-looped DNA molecules from electron micrographs are presented. We propose a two-dimensional R-loop distribution map with abscissa and ordinate axes corresponding to the positions of the left and right ends of the loop respectively. A transcription analysis of the hybrid plasmid pSCV1...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Golovanov EuI,Kalambet YuA,Auezova LJ,Alexandrov AA

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone acetyltransferases (HATs) is one among the conspicuous posttranslational modification in eukaryotic cells. p300/CBP Associated Factor (PCAF) and CREB-binding protein (CBP) are the two highly homologous HAT family which are vastly implicated in several diseases like cancer, diabetes, etc. Pentadecylidenemalonat...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Suryanarayanan V,Singh SK

更新日期：2019-06-01 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：: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：:Inspection of stereochemical models suggests a possible correlation between the proportion (Yg-/Yt) of the g- and t rotamers and the S pucker populations irrespective of the anti-syn conformational composition of the base. Interpretation of the NMR vicinal coupling constants in terms of conformational populations show...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Remin M

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformation of a complex of a 41 mer/31 mer DNA fragment and the Klenow fragment of DNA polymerase I of Escherichia coli was studied by scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM). The results shows that near two turns of double helix of this DNA fragment was outside of enzyme while another part containing more than one...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Lu CD,Li MQ,Qui MY,Yao XW,Xu YL,Gu MM,Hu J

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abstract The stacking preference of a DNA Four-Way junction (4H), with a novel junction sequence, has been determined in the presence of magnesium ions as well as in the presence of cobalt(III)hexammine ions by means of NMR spectroscopy. In both cases this 4H has a strong preference (>80%) to fold in an A/D-stacked ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： van Buuren BN,Schleucher J,Wijmenga SS

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large number of medical experiments have confirmed that the features of drugs have a close correlation with their molecular structure. Drug properties can be obtained by studying the molecular structure of corresponding drugs. The calculation of the topological index of a drug structure enables scientists to have a ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Jahanbani A,Shao Z,Sheikholeslami SM

更新日期：2020-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Current research has shown cell-penetrating peptides and antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) as probable vectors for use in drug delivery and as novel antibiotics. It has been reported that the higher the therapeutic index (TI) the higher would be the bacterial cell penetrating ability. To the best of our knowledge, no in-s...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Faya M,Kalhapure RS,Dhumal D,Agrawal N,Omolo C,Akamanchi KG,Govender T

更新日期：2019-06-01 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

abstract：:Protein folding remains an unsolved problem as main-chain, side-chain, and solvent interactions remain entangled and have been hard to resolve. Polyalanines are promising models to analyze protein folding initiation and propagation structurally as well as energetically. In the present work, the effect of chain-length ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Goyal B,Kumar A,Srivastava KR,Durani S

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural analysis of the photoactivated binary system of complementary-addressing nucleic acid sequences (1:2:3) by high-resolution NMR spectroscopy and restrained molecular dynamics is reported. The binary system comprised a 12 base-pair target DNA sequence, pdGTATCAGTTTCT (1), and two hexanucleotides, (dAGAAAC...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Bichenkova EV,Marks D,Dobrikov MI,Vlassov VV,Morris GA,Douglas KT

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The problem that how many protein-coding genes there are in the genome of Aeropyrum pernix K1 has confused many scientists since the sequencing in 1999. In this paper, the protein-coding genes in A. pernix K1 are identified from the original and current NITE annotation by using the Aper_ORFs method. Consequently, 702 ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Guo FB,Lin Y

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been found that DNA molecules are often hooked around obstacles in a U-shaped configuration in gel electrophoresis. To understand the dynamics of the unhooking of U-shaped DNA molecules undergoing gel electrophoresis, we have examined the length changes of the longer and shorter arms of the U-shape as a functio...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Song L,Maestre MF

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All major suggestions about the nucleosome positioning sequence pattern(s) are overviewed. Two basic binary periodical patterns are well established: in purine/pyrimidine alphabet - YRRRRRYYYYYR and in strong/weak alphabet -SWWWWWSSSSSW. Their merger in four-letter alphabet sequence coincides with first ever complete ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Trifonov EN

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis is a fundamental biological phenomenon, in which anti- or proapoptotic proteins of the Bcl-2 family regulate a committed step. Overexpression of Bcl-2, the prototypical antiapoptotic protein in this family, is associated with therapy resistance in various human cancers. Accordingly, Bcl-2 inhibitors intended...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Li T,Cui Y,Wu B

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CLTOAB is an ammonium-based ionic liquid composed of ε-Caprolactam (CL) C6H11NO and tetraoctylammonium bromide (TOAB) (C32H68BrN). In this study, experimental IR and Raman spectra of CLTOAB ionic liquid together with the computational results of the compound have been reported. The optimized geometry, vibrational freq...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Celik S,Albayrak AT,Akyuz S,E Ozel A

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human male germ cell-associated kinase (hMAK) is an androgen-inducible gene in prostate epithelial cells, and it acts as a coactivator of androgen receptor signaling in prostate cancer. The 3D structure of the hMAK kinase was modeled based on the crystal structure of CDK2 kinase using comparative modeling methods, and...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Tanneeru K,Balla AR,Guruprasad L

更新日期：2015-01-01 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 Transformer2 (Tra2) proteins in humans are homologues of the Drosophila Tra2 protein. One of the two RNA-binding paralogs, Tra2β, has been very well-studied over the past decade, but not much is known about Tra2α. It was very recently shown that the two proteins demonstrate the phenomenon of paralog compensation. ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Ghosh P,Grellscheid SN,Sowdhamini R

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two naphthalene-containing compounds, 4-hydroxy-6,7-dimethoxy-1-(4-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)-2-naphthoic acid (A) and 4-hydroxy-6,7-dimethoxy-1-phenyl-2-naphthoic acid (B), were prepared by several steps. Their bindings to human serum albumin (HSA) were studied by ultraviolet-visible (UV-vis) absorption, fluorescence, ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Wang X,Xing Y,Su J,Wang C,Wang Z,Yu Y,Xu H,Ma D

更新日期：2020-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The With-No-Lysine (WNK) kinase family plays a significant role in regulating cation-chloride cotransporters, blood pressure and body fluid homeostasis. Mutations in the gene of WNK family, especially in WNK1 and WNK4 are responsible for pseudohypoaldosteronism type II (PHAII), characterized by hypertension. The selec...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Jonniya NA,Kar P

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the CaM-peptide interactions for four CaM-related peptides with different calcium equivalents, using the hCaM-M124C-mBBr biosensor and Molecular Dynamics (MD). Due to the high sensitivity of the biosensor, we were able to calculate five Kds based on the number of calcium equivalents for each peptide, showing ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Sosa-Peinado A,León-Cruz E,Velázquez-López I,Matuz-Mares D,Cano-Sánchez P,González-Andrade M

更新日期：2020-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Polar mutations in transmembrane alpha helices may alter the structural details of the hydrophobic sequences and control intermolecular contacts. We have performed molecular dynamics simulations on the transmembrane domain of the proto-oncogenic and the oncogenic forms of the Neu receptor in a fluid DMPC bilayer to te...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Samna Soumana O,Aller P,Garnier N,Genest M

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different post-translational changes in eye lens crystallin proteins contribute towards the development of cataract. We have studied in vitro oxidative modification of tryptophan (Trp) residues of human γD-crystallin (HGD) towards formation of N-formylkynurenine (NFK) associated with cataractogenesis. This oxidation w...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Rana S,Sarmah S,Singha Roy A,Ghosh KS

更新日期：2020-03-18 00:00:00