DNA bending and sugar switching.

abstract：:Protein kinase C (PKC) isozymes are important regulatory enzymes that have been implicated in many diseases, including cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and in the eradication of HIV/AIDS. Given their potential clinical ramifications, PKC modulators, e.g. phorbol esters and bryostatin, are also of great interest in the dru...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Thangsunan P,Tateing S,Hannongbua S,Suree N

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:COVID-19 is an infectious pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The critical components of SARS-CoV-2 are the spike protein (S-protein) and the main protease (Mpro). Mpro is required for the maturation of the various polyproteins involved in replication and transcription. S-protein helps the SARS-CoV-2 to enter the...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Mondal P,Natesh J,Abdul Salam AA,Thiyagarajan S,Meeran SM

更新日期：2020-11-05 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：:Proteins interact with carbohydrates to perform various cellular interactions. Of the many carbohydrate ligands that proteins bind with, mannose constitute an important class, playing important roles in host defense mechanisms. Accurate identification of mannose-interacting residues (MIR) may provide important clues t...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Pai PP,Mondal S

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Supercoiling causes global twist of DNA structure and the supercoiled state has wide influence on conformational transition. A statistical mechanical approach was made for prediction of the transition probability to non-B DNA structures under torsional stress. A conditional partition function was defined as the sum ov...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Katsura S,Makishima F,Nishimura H

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of quinolones, nalidixic acid (Nal), oxolinic acid (Oxo) with double stranded polynucleotides was undertaken by using UV-melting, UV-Vis absorption, fluorescence and CD spectroscopic techniques. The binding of Nal or Oxo to the polynucleotides under low-salt buffer conditions were determined for poly (dA)....

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Jain A,Rajeswari MR

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Owing to its negative regulatory role in insulin signaling, protein tyrosine phosphatase of leukocyte antigen-related protein (PTP-LAR) was widely thought as a potential drug target for diabetes. Now, it was urgent to search for potential LAR inhibitors targeting diabetes. Initially, the pharmacophore models of LAR in...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Du S,Yang B,Wang X,Li WY,Lu XH,Zheng ZH,Ma Y,Wang RL

更新日期：2020-09-01 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：:The deoxydinucleoside triphosphate units d-pCpGp and d-pGpCp were subjected to a rigorous theoretical investigation with a view to describing their distinctive conformational characteristics. For each unit 216 probable three-dimensional forms defined by the backbone-base dihedral angles and sugar pucker modes were con...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Ponnuswamy PK,Anukanth A

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Donepezil is an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor (AChEI) in use to treat symptomatic patients of mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD). Ferritin is an iron protein associated with storage and sequestration of excess ferrous iron in a way maintaining proper function of cellular processes and plays a key role in AD si...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Shahwan M,Khan MS,Husain FM,Shamsi A

更新日期：2020-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuum finite element material models used for traumatic brain injury lack local injury parameters necessitating nanoscale mechanical injury mechanisms be incorporated. One such mechanism is membrane mechanoporation, which can occur during physical insults and can be devastating to cells, depending on the level of ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Murphy MA,Mun S,Horstemeyer MF,Baskes MI,Bakhtiary A,LaPlaca MC,Gwaltney SR,Williams LN,Prabhu RK

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of gene expression in eukaryotes involves a complex assembly of DNA recognition sequence elements and their respective protein factors. The upstream promoter/enhancer sequences are position and orientation independent. Despite their variable distances from the TATA box and transcription start site, interact...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Nussinov R

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has emerged as the causative agent behind the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Treatment efforts have been severely impeded due to the lack of specific effective antiviral drugs for the treatment of COVID-associated pathologies. In the pre...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Naidoo D,Roy A,Kar P,Mutanda T,Anandraj A

更新日期：2020-07-21 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 study is focused on the synthesis of a novel complex of ibuprofen and Platinum(II). The formation of the product was characterized through analytical tools including Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, proton nuclear magnetic resonance, ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy, mass spectrometry as well as density fu...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Shiri F,Hadidi S,Rahimi-Nasrabadi M,Ahmadi F,Ganjali MR,Ehrlich H

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An extensive Monte Carlo simulation of hydration of various conformations of the dinucleoside monophosphates (DNP), containing thymine, uracil and its 5-halogen derivatives has been performed. An anti-anti conformation is the most energetically stable one for each of the DNPs. In the majority of cases the energy prefe...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Alderfer JL,Danilov VI,Poltev VI,Slyusarchuk ON

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Runt domain proteins are eukaryotic transcription factors that regulate major developmental pathways. All members of this family contain a highly-conserved sequence-specific DNA binding domain: the Runt domain (RD). Structural and biochemical studies have shown that the Runt domain undergoes a conformational trans...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Suad O,Eyal E,Blumenzweig I,Kessler N,Levanon D,Groner Y,Shakked Z

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate the site-selective binding of erlotinib hydrochloride (ET), a targeted anticancer drug, to bovine serum albumin (BSA) through 1H NMR, spectroscopic, thermodynamic, and molecular modeling methods. The fluorescence quenching of BSA by ET was a result of the formation of BSA-E...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Liu Y,Chen M,Luo Z,Lin J,Song L

更新日期：2013-10-01 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：:The so-called CCAAT box is believed to be a major promoter element of higher eukaryotes though it is ill-defined being deduced from very limited sequence data. The comprehensive computer analysis of an unbiased set of 168 promoters presented here removes several of the persisting uncertainties. In particular, it delin...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Bucher P,Trifonov EN

更新日期：1988-06-01 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：:We attempt to give an alternate point of view of the analysis by Roterman et al. (J. Biolmol. Struct. Dyn. 7,415 (1989]. In particular, we argue for the use of flexible geometry and explicit inclusion of solvent effects in analyzing phi, psi maps of peptides. ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kollman PA,Dill KA

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Galantamine (Gnt) is a natural alkaloid inhibitor of acetylcholinesterase and is presently one of the most used drugs in the treatment against Alzheimer's disease during both the initial and intermediate stages. Among several natural Gnt derivatives, sanguinine (Sng) and lycoramine (Lyc) attract attention because of t...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Rocha REO,Lima LHF

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tyrphostin 9 (Tyr 9) is a potent platelet-derived growth factor receptor (PDGFR) inhibitor, which induces apoptosis in various cancer cell types. The binding of Tyr 9 to the major transport protein, human serum albumin (HSA) was investigated using several spectroscopic techniques and molecular docking method. Fluoresc...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kandandapani S,Ridzwan NFW,Mohamad SB,Tayyab S

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 9-aminoacridine-DNA binding curve is analyzed in two ways: with polyelectrolyte effects neglected and with polyelectrolyte effects included. It is found that the analysis which includes polyelectrolyte effects is consistent with the violation of neighbor exclusion displayed by diacridine complexes as observed by A...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Friedman RA,Shahin M,Zuckerbraun S

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hydration properties of the non-palindromic duplex d(CTACTGCTTTAG). d(CTAAAGCAGTAG) were investigated by NMR spectroscopy. The oligonucleotide possesses a heterogeneous B-DNA structure. The H2(n)-H1'(m+1) distances reflect a minor groove narrowing within the TTT/AAA segment (approximately 3.9A) and a sudden wideni...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Leporc S,Mauffret O,El Antri S,Convert O,Lescot E,Tevanian G,Fermandjian S

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The subtype, 5-HT7R has been implicated in neurological disorders and presents itself as a promising target for antidepressant drugs. Design of targeted selective ligands, require a sound knowledge of 3D-receptor structure. In absence of receptor structure, structure-based design of targeted ligands relies on generati...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Jha P,Chaturvedi S,Swastika,Pal S,Jain N,Mishra AK

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the NaCl-induced condensation of calf thymus chromatin by static light scattering of 90 degrees and shown that the increase in NaCl concentration up to 120-170 mM results in a large increase in scattering intensity of the total chromatin. Histones H1-depleted and trypsinized chromatin preparations do n...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Smirnov IV,Dimitrov SI,Makarov VL

更新日期：1988-04-01 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：: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