Enhanced sampling of molecular dynamics simulation of peptides and proteins by double coupling to thermal bath.

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 new Corona-virus, recently called the severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) appears for the first time in China and more precisely in Wuhan (December 2019). This disease can be fatal. Seniors, and people with other medical conditions (diabetes, heart disease…), may be more vulnerable and becom...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Aanouz I,Belhassan A,El-Khatabi K,Lakhlifi T,El-Ldrissi M,Bouachrine M

更新日期：2020-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The adsorption behavior of Anastrozole (ANA) and Melphalan (MEL) anticancer drugs on the surface of silicene nanosheet (SNS) and functionalized SNS with folic acid (FA-SNS) is investigated and compared using the density functional theory (DFT) and molecular dynamics (MD) simulation. The DFT calculation is performed at...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Razavi L,Raissi H,Hashemzadeh H,Farzad F

更新日期：2020-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A family of covalent complexes between oligonucleotides and derivatives of the intercalating agent 9-amino acridine has been synthesized (Asseline, U., Thuong, N.T. and Helene, C. (1983) C.R.Acad. Sci. (Paris) 297 (III), 369-372) and studied (Lancelot, G., Asseline, U., Thuong, N.T., and Helene, C. (1985) Biochemistry...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Cieplak P,Rao SN,Hélène C,Montenay-Garestier T,Kollman PA

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformational state of biliproteins can be determined by optical properties of the covalently linked chromophores. Recently determined crystal structure of truncated form of α-subunit of cyanobacterial phycoerythrin (αC-PE) from Phormidium tenue provides a new insight into the structure-function relationship of α...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Anwer K,Sonani R,Madamwar D,Singh P,Khan F,Bisetty K,Ahmad F,Hassan MI

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pandemic coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) presents a great threat to public health. Currently, no potent medicine is available to treat COVID-19. Quest for new drugs especially from natural plant sources is an area of immense potential. The curre...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Wahedi HM,Ahmad S,Abbasi SW

更新日期：2020-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven new quinoline-based bioorganic compounds were prepared by solvent-free synthesis and characterized using spectral techniques. The binding of these compounds with human serum albumin (HSA) was investigated by multi-spectroscopic methods. The quenching of Trp fluorescence upon addition of these compounds to HSA co...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Vennila KN,Elango KP

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The class of ß-lactam antibiotics has proven highly efficient in targeting bacterial penicillin-binding proteins (PBP) leading to the blocking of the bacterial cell wall synthesis. However, the benefit of these drugs is limited because of bacterial resistance mechanisms; the most widespread resistance involves ß-lacta...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Mbaye MN,Gilis D,Rooman M

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：: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：:Homologous proteins may fold into similar three-dimensional structures. Spectroscopic evidence suggests this is true for the cereal grain thionins, the mistletoe toxins, and for crambin, three classes of plant proteins. We have combined primary sequence homology and energy minimization to predict the structures alpha ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Whitlow M,Teeter MM

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

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

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Khan S,Somvanshi P,Singh A,Khan M,Mandal RK,Dar SA,Wahid M,Jawed A,Mishra BN,Haque S

更新日期：2020-03-03 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：:Triple-negative breast cancers (TNBCs) are one of the most aggressive and complex forms of cancers in women. TNBCs are commonly known for their complex heterogeneity and poor prognosis. The present work aimed to develop a predictive 2D and 3D quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) models against metastati...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Shukla A,Tyagi R,Meena S,Datta D,Srivastava SK,Khan F

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The thermal denaturation of the synthetic high molecular weight double stranded polynucleotide poly(dA-dT) x poly(dA-dT) has been studied in aqueous buffered solution (Tris 1.0 mM; pH 7.8+/-0.2) in the presence of increasing concentrations of either Ni(2+) (borderline cation) or Cd(2+) (soft cation) at four different ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Airoldi M,Gennaro G,Giomini M,Giuliani AM,Giustini M

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive motor-neurone disease, affects individuals usually aged between 50 and 70 years. C21orf2, recently identified as the new ALS susceptibility gene, harbours rare missense mutations that cause this fatal disease. We used bioinformatics and molecular modelling approaches ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Iyer S,Acharya KR,Subramanian V

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The infrared absorption and 1H nuclear magnetic resonance analyses of chloroform solutions of the terminally-blocked segment corresponding to the 2-9 sequence of emerimicins III and IV, -(Aib)3-L-Val-Gly-L-Leu-(Aib)2-, are consistent with the presence of a 3(10)-helical structure of high thermal stability. The crystal...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Toniolo C,Bonora GM,Bavoso A,Benedetti E,di Blasio B,Pavone V,Pedone C

更新日期：1985-12-01 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：:Diabetes is very much known as a wide-spread disorder all around the world with serious complications for the diabetic patient. In order to reduce these complications, inhibition the activity of aldose reductase (AR) and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) enzymes is a proposed pathway. Within this work potency of curcumin (CUR)...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Mirzaei M,Harismah K,Soleimani M,Mousavi S

更新日期：2020-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:A new model for simulation of protein folding of alpha-helical proteins with known secondary structure is proposed. We are dealing here with the analysis of alpha-helix packings rather than with a detailed atom structure of a whole protein. Starting from a random compact packing of the helices the search is focused on...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Grigoriev IV,Rakhmaninova AB,Mironov AA

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assembly origin (AO) region of the tobacco mosaic virus RNA melts in an usually narrow (2.5 degrees C) temperature range. In an 0.01 M phosphate buffer the melting temperature of AO was found to be 41.5 degrees C. This value corresponds to the regions with the most stable secondary/tertiary structure of the whole ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kelve M,Aruja A,Kooli K,Männik J,Raukas E

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria remains one of the most important infectious diseases in the world. Plasmodial cysteine proteases are proposed to be promising targets for novel antimalarial drug design. Vivapain-2 and vivapain-3 are cysteine proteases from Plasmodium vivax and apparent orthologs of falcipain-2 and falcipain-3 from Plasmodium...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Desai PV,Avery MA

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have performed an 4-ns MD simulation of calmodulin complexed with a target peptide in explicit water, under realistic conditions of constant temperature and pressure, in the presence of a physiological concentration of counterions and using Ewald summation to avoid truncation of long-range electrostatic forces. Dur...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Yang C,Kuczera K

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, a general method is developed to study site-specific interactions in DNA-protein complexes using heteronuclear NMR spectroscopy and molecular modeling. This method involves two steps: (a) homonuclear 1H NMR and molecular modeling are used to develop a low resolution model and (b) 15N7-guanosine containi...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Edwards CA,Tung CS,Silks LA,Gatewood JM,Fee JA,Mariappan SV

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD), a neurodegenerative disorder, is the most common cause of dementia. So far only five drugs have been approved by US FDA that temporarily slow worsening of symptoms for about six to twelve months. The limited number of therapeutic options for AD drives the exploration of new drugs. Enhancement...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Grover A,Shandilya A,Agrawal V,Bisaria VS,Sundar D

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes, for the first time, the effect of three different sizes of silver nanoparticles on the binding of curcumin to lysozyme as examined by spectroscopic and zeta potential techniques at physiological conditions. The binding constants of curcumin to lysozyme in the presence of silver nanoparticles we...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kamshad M,Jahanshah Talab M,Beigoli S,Sharifirad A,Chamani J

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gas-phase gradient optimization was carried out on the canonical Watson-Crick DNA base pairs using the second-order Møller-Plesset perturbation method at the 6-31G(d) and 6-31G(d,p) basis sets. It is detected that full geometry optimization at the MP2 level leads to an intrinsically nonplanar propeller-twisted and buc...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Danilov VI,Anisimov VM

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The secondary structure of a bradykinin B(1)receptor antagonist B-10324 (F5C-Lys-(1)- Lys(0)-Arg(1)-Pro(2)- Hyp(3)-Gly(4)-CpG(5)- Ser(6)-DTic(7)-CpG(8)) was determined by NMR at 800MHz. The conformational data are compared with those obtained previously for two bradykinin B(1) receptor antagonists, namely B-9858 (Lys-...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Miskolzie M,Gera L,Stewart JM,Kotovych G

更新日期：2002-02-01 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 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