Simulation studies on the stabilities of aggregates formed by fibril-forming segments of alpha-Synuclein.

abstract：:Solvent properties of aqueous media (dipolarity/polarizability, hydrogen bond donor acidity, and hydrogen bond acceptor basicity) were measured in the coexisting phases of Dextran-PEG aqueous two-phase systems (ATPSs) containing .5 and 2.0 M urea. The differences between the electrostatic and hydrophobic properties of...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Ferreira LA,Povarova OI,Stepanenko OV,Sulatskaya AI,Madeira PP,Kuznetsova IM,Turoverov KK,Uversky VN,Zaslavsky BY

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone deacetylase 8 (HDAC8) has emerged as an important therapeutic target due to its involvement in various cancerous and neurodegenerative disease states. Since pan HDAC inhibition has been linked to various side effects, the need of the hour is to develop inhibitors truly selective for one isoform. This work atte...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kashyap K,Kakkar R

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on the known structural model for reverse transcription initiation complex of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) MAL isolate, we attempted to predict a structural behavior of MAL-like templates (CRF01_AE, subtype G and CRF02_AG) within the initiation complex by in silico experiments. Switches from t...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kolomiets IN,Zarudnaya MI,Potyahaylo AL,Hovorun DM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions of the drugs 2,7-bis[(diethylamino)-ethoxy]-fluoren-9-one dihydrochloride (Tilorone), 2,7-bis[(dipropylamino)-acetamido]-fluoren-9-one dihydrochloride (FA-2), 2'-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-5-(4-methyl-1-piperazinyl)-2,5'-bi-1H-benzimidazole trihydrochloride (Hoechst 33258), and hematoporphyrin IX derivative (H...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Bischoff G,Bischoff R,Birch-Hirschfeld E,Gromann U,Lindau S,Meister WV,de A Bambirra S,Bohley C,Hoffmann S

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linezolid, one of the reserve antibiotic of oxazolidinone class has wide range of antimicrobial activity. Here we have conducted a fundamental study concerning the dynamics of its interaction with bovine serum albumin (BSA), and the post binding modification of the later by employing different spectroscopic (absorptio...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Roy A,Seal P,Sikdar J,Banerjee S,Haldar R

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:COVID-19 and its causative organism SARS-CoV2 that emerged from Wuhan city, China have paralyzed the world. With no clinically approved drugs, the global health system is struggling to find an effective treatment measure. At this crucial juncture, screening of plant-derived compounds may be an effective strategy to co...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Swargiary A,Mahmud S,Saleh MA

更新日期：2020-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The closed loops within the proteins of the TIM-barrel fold family are analyzed and compared sequence- and structure-wise. The size distribution of the closed loops of the TIM-barrels confirms universal preference to the standard size of 25-30 residues. 3D structural RMSD comparisons of the closed loops and presentati...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Frenkel ZM,Trifonov EN

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The solution structure of two double helical nucleic acid fragments, viz, r(CGCGCG) and d(CGCGCG), was probed by means of two-dimensional nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy. The two compounds were selected as models for the A-type and B-type double helical conformations, respectively, and it is shown that for each...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Haasnoot CA,Westerink HP,van der Marel GA,van Boom JH

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A theoretical study is presented of the energetic and structural properties of covalent adducts of benzo[a]pyrene and a DNA fragment. Energy optimisation is performed with the use of minimiser with constraints and an advanced semiempirical energy formula. Three types of adducts are studied: an external complex with th...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Zakrzewska K,Pullman B

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidermal growth factor (EGF) plays important roles in multiple biological processes, such as the regulation of cell growth, proliferation, and differentiation. EGF exerts their pharmacologic effects via receptor-mediated mechanism associated with high affinity to epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) on the cell su...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Mehrabi M,Khodarahmi R,Shahlaei M

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the number of available three dimensional coordinates of proteins increases, it is now recognized that proteins from different families and topologies are constructed from independent motifs. Detection of specific structural motifs within proteins aids in understanding their role and the mechanism of their operatio...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Fischer D,Bachar O,Nussinov R,Wolfson H

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine receptors (ARs) belong to family A of GPCRs that are involved in many diseases, including cerebral and cardiac ischemic diseases, immune and inflammatory disorders, etc. Thus, they represent important therapeutic targets to treat these conditions. Computational techniques such as molecular dynamics (MD) simu...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Martínez-Archundia M,Correa-Basurto J,Montaño S,Rosas-Trigueros JL

更新日期：2019-11-01 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 preferred conformation of orexin-B, an orphan G-protein coupled receptor agonist (the human sequence is RSGPPGLQGRLQRLLQASGNHAAGILTM-NH(2)) has been determined by (1)H and (13)C 2D NMR spectroscopy and molecular modeling. Orexin-B has been implicated in sleep-wakefulness and feeding regulation. The membrane mimeti...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Miskolzie M,Lucyk S,Kotovych G

更新日期：2003-12-01 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：:Preceding experimental findings revealed that the release of indomethacin decreased when a folate conjugate G4-PAMAM (folate-G4-PAMAM) dendrimer was used compared with its unconjugated dendrimer (G4-PAMAM). Further, better encapsulation of the conjugated dendrimer was achieved, information useful for elucidating the s...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Martínez-Muñoz A,Correa-Basurto J,Bello M

更新日期：2020-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Functions of non-coding RNAs are related in part to their secondary structures. We investigate the uniqueness of the secondary structure of a non-coding RNA (ncRNA) decoding UAG to read pyrrolysine (pyl). Nineteen archaeal methanogens are searched with our tRNA-pyl-tracker, TPYLT, perl-script downloadable from www.gya...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Das S,Mukherjee R,Sahoo S,Thakkar R,Chakrabarti J

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Sm and Sm-like proteins are widely distributed among bacteria, archaea and eukarya. They participate in many processes related to RNA-processing and regulation of gene expression. While the function of the bacterial Lsm protein Hfq and eukaryotic Sm/Lsm proteins is rather well studied, the role of Lsm proteins in ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Nikulin A,Mikhailina A,Lekontseva N,Balobanov V,Nikonova E,Tishchenko S

更新日期：2017-06-01 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：:MAP/microtubule affinity-regulating kinase 4 (MARK4) is a member of adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinases, directly associated with cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. Here, we have cloned, expressed, and purified two variants of MARK4 [the kinase domain (MARK4-F2), and kinase domain along with 59 N-ter...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Naz F,Singh P,Islam A,Ahmad F,Imtaiyaz Hassan M

更新日期：2016-06-01 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：:We have examined the conformational energetics of the eight most commonly occurring nucleosides--A, U, G, C, dA, dT, dG, dC--as monitored by a semi-empirical energy force field. These are the first reported calculations to completely explore the entire conformational spaces available to all eight major nucleosides usi...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Pearlman DA,Kim SH

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conjugation of trypsin (try) and trypsin inhibitor (tryi) with poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) and methoxypoly(ethylene glycol) anthracene (mPEG-anthracene) was investigated in aqueous solution, using multiple spectroscopic methods, thermodynamic analysis, and molecular modeling. Thermodynamic parameters ΔS, ΔH, and Δ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Chanphai P,Agudelo D,Tajmir-Riahi HA

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sirtuin 2 is a key enzyme in gene expression regulation that is often associated with tumor proliferation control and therefore is a relevant anticancer drug target. Anilinobenzamide derivatives have been discussed as selective sirtuin 2 inhibitors and can be developed further. In the present study, hologram and three...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Ferreira GM,Magalhães JG,Maltarollo VG,Kronenberger T,Ganesan A,Emery FDS,Trossini GHG

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular electrostatic potential (MEP) and the molecular electrostatic field (MEF) are associated with significantly different patterns of distribution in the nucleic acids and their constituents. In particular, a) while the values of the minimal potentials at the reactive sites of the bases or at the phosphates ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Pullman B

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visible and near infrared magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) spectra of heme proteins and enzymes as well as those of a protein-free heme bound to 2-methylimidazole were recorded and compared at 4.2 K in unrelaxed metastable and relaxed equilibrium heme stereochemistry. The relaxed and unrelaxed stereochemistries of a ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Sharonov YuA,Pismensky VF,Yarmola EG

更新日期：1989-08-01 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：:Infections by Candida albicans in immune compromised patients cause significant morbidity and mortality. In the search for potential molecular targets for drug development, the family of agglutinin-like proteins (Als) in C. albicans have been identified due to numerous attributes associated with high virulence, most p...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： von Ranke NL,Bello ML,Cabral LM,Castro HC,Rodrigues CR

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying and predicting the structural characteristics of novel repeats throughout the genome can lend insight into biological function. Specific repeats are believed to have biological significance as a function of their distribution patterns. We have developed 'GenomeMark,' a computer program that detects and sta...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Fadiel A,Eichenbaum KD,Hamza A

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the Tetrahymena thermophila rRNA IVS sequence with the aim of obtaining a model of the structure characterized by the bases proximity of the self-reactions sites. The considered sequence kept up those fragments essential for its catalytic activity as demonstrated by deletion mutants. The first step was the ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Benedetti G,Morosetti S

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00