A novel method to analyze the similarity of biological sequences.

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：:In search of suitable therapy for the management of Alzheimer's disease, this study was designed to evaluate metal complexes against its biochemical targets. Zinc metal carboxylates (AAZ1-AAZ6) were evaluated against acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and butyrylcholinesterase (BChE). The antioxidant in combination with anti...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Zafar R,Zubair M,Ali S,Shahid K,Waseem W,Naureen H,Haider A,Jan MS,Ullah F,Sirajuddin M,Sadiq A

更新日期：2020-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of 6-Thioguanine molecule, an antitumor drug with carbon nanotube and boron nitride nanotube (BNNT) is investigated using molecular dynamics simulations. Based on the obtained results, the strongest negative van der Waals interaction is found between 6-TG and BNNT among the studied nanotubes, which ind...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Hasanzade Z,Raissi H

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pertussis, caused by Bordetella pertussis is still one of the controversial diseases worldwide due to its high prevalence in both the developed and the developing countries, especially among young children. As currently approved vaccines are not protective enough and provide Th2-type immune responses, there is an urge...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Souod N,Rismani E,Bahrami F,Pakzad SR,Ajdary S

更新日期：2020-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformational space available to GnRH and lGnRH-III was compared using 5.2 ns constant temperature and pressure molecular dynamics simulations with explicit TIP3P solvation and the AMBER v. 5.0 force field. Cluster analysis of both trajectories resulted in two groups of conformations. Results of free energy calcu...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Watts CR,Mezei M,Murphy RF,Lovas S

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human HMGB1 gene mutations have a major impact on several immune-related diseases and cancer. The detrimental effect of non-synonymous mutations of HMGB1 has not been investigated yet, hence the present study aims to examine single nucleotide polymorphisms and their implications on the structure-function of human ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Santhiya P,Christian Bharathi A,Syed Ibrahim B

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our work is composed of a python program for programmatic data mining of PubChem to collect data to implement a machine learning-based AutoQSAR algorithm to generate drug leads for the flaviviruses-Dengue and West Nile. The drug leads generated by the program are fed as programmatic inputs to AutoDock Vina package for...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Geoffrey B,Sanker A,Madaj R,Tresanco MSV,Upadhyay M,Gracia J

更新日期：2020-12-04 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

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：:To overcome the obstacle of anti-cancer therapy significant attention has been drawn for improving drug delivery system. Since recent past, different approaches were applied using synthetic or natural derivatives for improving efficacy of anti-cancer drugs in cancer therapeutics. Gallic acid (GA) is a natural polyphen...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Priyadarshi K,Shirsath K,Waghela NB,Sharma A,Kumar A,Pathak C

更新日期：2020-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Target evaluation is at the centre of rational drug design and biologics development. In order to successfully engineer antibodies, T-cell receptors or small molecules it is necessary to identify and characterise potential binding or contact sites on therapeutically relevant target proteins. Currently, there are numer...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kanapeckaitė A,Beaurivage C,Hancock M,Verschueren E

更新日期：2020-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Distribution functions for intra- and inter- HIV-1 V3-loop subtypes amino acid Hamming distances were calculated (850 V3-loop sequences from the Los Alamos HIV-1 Database (1996) were used). These functions have pronounced bell-like shape. Such shapes of the histograms for HIV-1 V3 intra- and inter-subtype distriutions...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Shchelkanov MYu,Starikov NS,Yaroslavtsev IV,Tsvetkov PO,Yudin AN,Denisov MV,Slavsky AA,Vedenov AA,Karamov EV

更新日期：1998-04-01 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：:It is well established that GAA/TTC base triplet expansion is the cause of degenerative disorder in Freidreich's Ataxia. It is also known that these repeat sequences fold back to form the unusual intramolecular triple helix structures in DNA of the type Pyrimidine *Purine *Pyrimidine or Purine *Purine*Pyrimidine. In t...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Jain A,Rajeswari MR,Ahmed F

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The novel method allowing identification of protein structure elements responsible for catalytic activity manifestation is proposed. Structural organization of various hydrolases was studied using the ANIS (ANalysis of Informational Structure) method. ANIS allows to reveal a hierarchy of the ELements of Information St...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Nekrasov AN,Zinchenko AA

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear quadrupole relaxation is a sensitive measure of electrolyte environments. We used the relaxation of 23Na to probe mobile ion-matrix interactions and the electrostatic structure of the polyelectrolyte extracellular matrix of cartilage. Specifically, we measured spin-lattice and spin-spin relaxation times of 23N...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Dai H,McFarland EW

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins are nature's biomolecular machines. Proteins, such as transporters, pumps and motors, have complex function/operating-machinery/mechanisms, comparable to the macro-scaled machines that we encounter in our daily life. These proteins, as it is for their macro-scaled counterparts, convert (part of) other/various...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Gur M,Golcuk M,Yilmaz SZ,Taka E

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous reports have shown that protein-drug interaction helps to improve the pharmacokinetics of the drugs. Human serum albumin (HSA) is one of the basic components of blood plasma and it serves as a storage and carrier protein. In the present study, the interaction of a new synthesized Pt [iso]2 complex (cis - [Pt(...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Mohammadgholi A,Leilabadi-Asl A,Divsalar A,Eslami-Moghadam M

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to investigate the interfacial activation of a lipase from Pseudomonas cepacia (PcL), molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and essential dynamics (ED) analysis were performed in different solvent environments: vacuum and explicit water solvents. Starting from the active (open) structure of PcL, the essential d...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Lee J,Suh SW,Shin S

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) proteins are a kind of proteins that can be attached to a series of proteins. The sumoylation of protein is an important posttranslational modification. Thus, the prediction of the sumoylation site of a given protein is significant. Here we employed a combined method to perform...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Cai Y,He J,Lu L

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A first principles calculation of the correlation function for conformational motion (CM) in proteins is carried out within the framework of a microscopic model of a protein as a heterogeneous system. The fragments of the protein are assumed to be identical hard spheres undergoing the CM within their conformational po...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Sitnitsky AE

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipase A(2) belongs to a super family of enzymes that is massively over expressed in a variety of severe inflammatory diseases, which degrades membrane phospholipids. It has also been reported that this activity leads to loss of tissue, organ integrity and function. This enzyme is an important target for anti-i...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Ompraba G,Velmurugan D,Louis PA,Rafi ZA

更新日期：2010-02-01 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：:NPC1 is a 25-exon gene located on the long arm of chromosome 18q11.2 and encodes NPC1, a transmembrane protein comprising 1278 amino acid residues. Mutations in the NPC1 gene can cause Niemann-Pick disease type C (NP-C), a rare autosomal-recessive neurovisceral disease. We assessed mutant protein folding using compute...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Martínez-Archundia M,Hernández Mojica TG,Correa-Basurto J,Montaño S,Camacho-Molina A

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of Raman and Infrared (IR) spectroscopic investigations on the vibrational modes of dimethyl phosphorothioate (DMPS) anion, [(CH3O)2(POS)]-, are reported. Ab initio calculations of the vibrational modes, the IR and Raman spectra and the interatomic force constants of DMPS were performed. A normal mode calc...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Steinke CA,Reeves KK,Powell JW,Lee SA,Chen YZ,Wyrzykiewicz T,Griffey RH,Mohan V

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of Δ- and Λ-[Ru(phen)2DPPZ]2+ (DPPZ = dipyrido[3,2-a:2', 3'-c]phenazine, phen = phenanthroline) with a G-quadruplex formed from 5'-G2T2G2TGTG2T2G2-3'(15-mer) was investigated. The well-known enhancement of luminescence intensity (the 'light-switch' effect) was observed for the [Ru(phen)2DPPZ]2+ complex...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Park JH,Lee HS,Jang MD,Han SW,Kim SK,Lee YA

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusarium solani causes a wide variety of diseases in plants. Polyamine biosynthesis is responsible for the growth and pathogenicity of the fungus. The initial step of this pathway involves the decarboxylation of ornithine to putrescine, and is catalyzed by the enzyme ornithine decarboxylase (ODC). Inhibiting this proc...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Sanchita,Chauhan R,Soni G,Sudhamalla B,Sharma A

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

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

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kovalchuk MV,Boikova AS,Dyakova YA,Ilina KB,Konarev PV,Kryukova AE,Marchenkova MA,Pisarevsky YV,Timofeev VI

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alkylamine-substituted naphthalene imides and diimides bind DNA by intercalation and have applications as anticancer agents. The unique structures of these imides in which two adjacent carbonyl groups lie coplanar to an extended aromatic ring system allow the possibility of sequence-selective interactions between the ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Liu ZR,Hecker KH,Rill RL

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel [Pd(o-CH2C6H4P(o-tolyl)2)(histidine)] (1) and [Pd(o-CH2C6H4P(o tolyl)2)(phenylalanine)] (2) P,C-orthopalladated complexes have been prepared and characterized by elemental analysis, IR and NMR spectroscopy. To study the stability of the compounds in biological media, the complexes were incubated in Tris buffer d...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Hashemi S,Karami K,Saberi Dehkordi Z,Momtazi-Borojeni AA,Esmaeili SA

更新日期：2020-12-24 00:00:00