Studies of the interaction of tetramethylcucurbit[6]uril and 5,5'-dimethyl-2,2'-bipyridyl hydrochloride.

abstract：:Prion diseases are associated with misfolding and aggregation of prion protein (PrP). Cellular prion protein contains a disulfide bond linking Cys residues at positions 179 and 214. It has been proposed that this disulfide bond plays an important role in the conversion between cellular (PrP(C)) and the scrapie form of...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Ning L,Guo J,Jin N,Liu H,Yao X

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capture of N3-chains and N5-rings on the outer surface of C60 was studied using density functional calculations. For the neutral N5-ring, it was found that a N5-ring trapped by a C60 cage becomes more stable than an isolated N5-ring radical, and a C60-N5 compound with a C-N bond at an exohedral position of C60 is ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Liang Y,Gao X,Li N,Zhang X

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Density functional theory (DFT) has been applied to understand the influence of various linkages on the energetic properties and stability of the polynitro-biphenyl compounds. Structures were optimized using the B3PW91/6-31G(d,p) level, and the heats of formation (HOFs) were computed by employing the selected isodesmi...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Nirwan A,Devi A,Ghule VD

更新日期：2019-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Several noble-gas-containing molecules XNgY were observed experimentally. However, the bonding in such systems is still not understood. Using natural bond orbital and natural resonance theory (NBO/NRT) methods, the present work investigated bonding of the title molecules. The results show that each of the studied XNgY...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Song J,Su Y,Jia Y,Chen L,Zhang G

更新日期：2018-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have been successfully trained to model and predict the acidity constants (pK(a)) of 128 various phenols with diverse chemical structures using a quantitative structure-activity relationship. An ANN with 6-14-1 architecture was generated using six molecular descriptors that appear in ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Habibi-Yangjeh A,Danandeh-Jenagharad M,Nooshyar M

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increase of multidrug-resistant strains of bacteria to known classes of antibiotics present a severe challenge for modern medicine. The most promising strategy to combat pathogenic bacteria is to discover new drug targets. In this regard, aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases are particularly well suited to develop novel dru...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Hoffmann M,Torchala M

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complementarity plot (CP) is an established validation tool for protein structures, applicable to both globular proteins (folding) as well as protein-protein complexes (binding). It computes the shape and electrostatic complementarities (Sm, Em) for amino acid side-chains buried within the protein interior or inte...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Basu S

更新日期：2017-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on the unique advantages of terahertz (THz) spectrum on the detection of energetic cocrystals, the low-temperature dependent THz spectra of CL-20/TNT cocrystal were investigated by using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations from 5 to 296 K, as well as three different crystal faces, (001), (120), and (010). When t...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Shi L,Duan XH,Zhu LG,Pei CH

更新日期：2020-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:1,3-Dimethylimidazolium dimethylphosphate ([C1mim][DMP]) was observed experimentally to be able to eliminate the atmospheric azeotropic point of acetone and methanol, which is an important azeotrope generally encountered in furfural production and the Fischer-Tropsch process. Here, we employed ab initio calculation to...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Yu G,Liu X,Zhang X,Chen X,Liu Z,Abdeltawab AA

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hydration free energies, structures, and dynamics of open- and closed-shell trivalent lanthanide and actinide metal cations are studied using molecular dynamics simulations (MD) based on a polarizable force field. Parameters for the metal cations are derived from an ab initio bottom-up strategy. MD simulations of ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Marjolin A,Gourlaouen C,Clavaguéra C,Ren PY,Piquemal JP,Dognon JP

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism and origin of selectivity for [3 + 2]-cycloaddition (32CA) reactions between thioketone and carbohydrate-derived nitrones in THF were investigated by using the density functional theory (DFT) at the M06-2X/6-311+G(d,p)//M06-2X/6-31+G(d,p) level of theory combined with the solvation SMD model. The calcula...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Yang J,Zhang Y,Yang Y,Xue Y

更新日期：2019-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous studies suggest that two-phase morphology and thick interface are separately beneficial to the viscosity reduction and mechanical property maintainence of the matrix when normal molecular weight polymer (NMWP) is used for modification of ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE). Nevertheless, it is ve...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Gai JG,Zuo Y

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of terminal GLY114* deletion on the binding affinity of the PA-IIL lectin toward L: -fucose was investigated. Both experimental (isothermal titration calorimetry) and computational (molecular dynamics simulations) methods have shown that the deletion mutation decreases the L-fucose affinity. It implies that...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Wimmerová M,Mishra NK,Pokorná M,Koca J

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Odorant binding proteins (OBPs) are important in insect olfactory recognition. These proteins bind specifically to insect semiochemicals and induce their seeking, mating, and alarm behaviors. Molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulations were performed to provide computational insight into the interaction mode ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Wang S,Sun Y,Du S,Qin Y,Duan H,Yang X

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Survivin, the smallest inhibitor of apoptosis protein (IAP), is a valid target for cancer research. It mediates both the apoptosis pathway and the cell cycle and has been proposed to form a complex with the cyclin-dependent kinase protein CDK4. The resulting complex transports CDK4 from the cytosol to the nucleus, whe...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Selent J,Kaczor AA,Guixà-González R,Carrió P,Pastor M,Obiol-Pardo C

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we report a structure-based virtual screening of the ZINC database (containing about five million compounds) by computational docking and the analysis of docking energy calculations followed by in vitro screening against H. pylori urease enzyme. One of the compounds selected showed urease inhibition in the low m...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Azizian H,Nabati F,Sharifi A,Siavoshi F,Mahdavi M,Amanlou M

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reaction pathways of several Friedel-Crafts acylations involving phenyl aromatic compounds were studied using density functional theory. The reactions were related to the Friedel-Crafts polycondensation of polyaryletherketones. In particular, the acylation of benzene with benzoyl chloride to form benzophenone and ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Melissen ST,Tognetti V,Dupas G,Jouanneau J,Lê G,Joubert L

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The average pull-out force and interaction energy of polyethylene (PE) cross-linked functionalized carbon nanotubes (cfCNTs) embedded in polymer matrices (PE-cfCNTs@polymers) was studied using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Accordingly, the pull-out process of PE-cfCNTs from inside polymer matrices, i.e., Aramid...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Haghighi S,Ansari R,Ajori S

更新日期：2019-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Contact sites between amino acids characterize important structural features of a protein. We investigated characteristics of contact sites in a representative set of proteins and their relations between protein class or topology. For this purpose, we used a non-redundant set of 5872 protein domains, identically categ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Wozniak PP,Kotulska M

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present work, C-F bond cleavage mediated by the super-reduced form of cobalamin (i.e., CoICbl) was theoretically studied at the ONIOM(BP86/6-311++G(d,p):PM6) + SMD level of theory. Dispersion effects were introduced by employing Grimme's empirical dispersion at the ONIOM(BP86-D/6-311++G(d,p):PM6) + SMD level. I...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Cortés-Arriagada D,Toro-Labbe A,Mora JR,Rincón L,Mereau R,Torres FJ

更新日期：2017-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, hybrid functional and G4 methods were employed in the rational design of carbonitrile-carboxaldehyde receptor models for cation recognition. Electron-sharing and ionic interactions between the models and the cations were analyzed utilizing the concepts of overlap population, atomic valence, electrostatic...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Rosli AN,Abu Bakar MA,Lee VS,Zain SM,Ahmad MR,Abdul Manan NS,Alias Y,Woi PM

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of a strong electric field generated by molecular dipoles on the ground state electronic structure and the Q and B states as well as the lowest charge transfer (CT) excited state of porphine-2,5-dimethyl-1,4-benzoquinone (PQ) complex has been investigated theoretically. Density functional theory DFT and tim...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Cramariuc O,Aittala PJ,Hukka TI

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influences of the temperature and the BDNPA/BDNPF (A3) content on the mechanical properties of and the binding energies between hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane (HNIW) and cellulose acetate butyrate (CAB)/A3 were studied via molecular dynamics simulations. The morphology of HNIW in acetone was simulated using an atta...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Lan G,Jin S,Wang D,Li J,Lu Z,Jing B,Li L

更新日期：2018-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Our recent molecular dynamics (MD) simulation of an insertion/duplication mutant 'L20' of bacteriophage T4 lysozyme demonstrated a solvent induced α→β transition in a loosely held duplicate helical region, while α-helical conformation in the parent region was relatively stabilized by its tertiary interactions with the...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Kaur H,Sasidhar YU

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ab initio calculations have been performed using the complete basis set model (CBS-QB3) to study the reaction mechanism of butane radical (C(4)H(9)•) with oxygen (O(2)). On the calculated potential energy surface, the addition of O(2) to C(4)H(9)• forms three intermediates barrierlessly, which can undergo subsequent i...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Du HC,Gong XD

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship of Wiener's topochemical index-a distance based topochemical index, molecular connectivity topochemical index-an adjacency based topochemical index and eccentric connectivity topochemical index-an adjacency-cum-distance based topochemical index with sodium channel binding activity has been investigate...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Gupta M,Madan AK

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A computational study was carried out to characterize the hydrogen-bonded dimers of Zoledronate (ZOL), which is used widely in treating skeletal diseases. The stable conformations, hydrogen bonding interactions, IR spectra, thermodynamic properties, and electronic characteristics of nine possible ZOL dimers were studi...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Liu Q,Li K,Lv G,Li X,Peng Y,Lin J,Qiu L

更新日期：2018-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The feasibility of electron transport conduction through a guanine base of DNA was investigated and then compared with another component of DNA, i.e., cytosine. A mathematical approach based on the jellium model using non-equilibrium Green's function combined with semi empirical extended Huckel theory was applied usin...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Vohra R,Sawhney RS

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, the spectroscopic information, stability and aromaticity of the boron-nitrogen azulene and naphthalene molecules are provided by the use of CC2 (geometry optimization, dipole moment, UV-vis spectrum calculations) and DFT (vibrational spectrum and NMR calculations) methodologies. One isomer of the investi...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Catão AJ,López-Castillo A

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uracil has long been known as the main product of nitrosative cytosine deamination in aqueous solution. Recent mechanistic studies of cytosinediazonium ion suggest that the cation formed by its dediazoniation can ring-open to N-protonated (Z,s-cis)-3-isocyanatoacrylonitrile 7. Stereochemical preferences are discussed ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Glaser R,Wu H,von Saint Paul F

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00