Conformations of higher gangliosides and their binding with cholera toxin - investigation by molecular modeling, molecular mechanics, and molecular dynamics.

abstract：:Self-association of α-synuclein (αS) into pathogenic oligomeric species and subsequent formation of highly ordered amyloid fibrils is linked to the Parkinson's disease. So most of the recent studies are now focused on the development of potential therapeutic strategies against this debilitating disease. β-synuclein (β...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Sanjeev A,Sahu RK,Mattaparthi VSK

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:-1 programmed ribosomal frameshifting (PRF) in viruses is often stimulated by a pseudoknot downstream from the slippery sequence. At the PRF junction of HIV-1, transmissible gastroenteritis virus (TGEV), Barmah Forest virus (BFV), Fort Morgan virus (FMV), and Equine arteritis virus (EAV), we identified potential doubl...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Wang G,Yang Y,Huang X,Du Z

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stereochemical effects of methylphosphonate (MP) in B-DNA and Z-DNA duplexes are studied through molecular mechanics approach. Duplexes of different lengths, tetramers, hexamers, dodecamers are examined to assess the interstrand and intrastrand electrostatic effects due to MPs vis-a-vis phosphates. A variety of models...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Swarnalatha Y,Yathindra N

更新日期：1993-06-01 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：:A complete three dimensional model (RCSB000408; PDB code 1qaa) for the LexA repressor dimer bound to the recA operator site consistent with relevant biochemical and biophysical data for the repressor is proposed. A model of interaction of the N-terminal operator binding domain 1-72 with the operator was available. We ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Chattopadhyaya R,Ghosh K,Namboodiri VM

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current research has shown cell-penetrating peptides and antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) as probable vectors for use in drug delivery and as novel antibiotics. It has been reported that the higher the therapeutic index (TI) the higher would be the bacterial cell penetrating ability. To the best of our knowledge, no in-s...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Faya M,Kalhapure RS,Dhumal D,Agrawal N,Omolo C,Akamanchi KG,Govender T

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interaction of levocabastine with human serum albumin (HSA) is investigated by applying fluorescence spectroscopy, circular dichroism spectroscopy and molecular docking methods. Levocabastine is an important drug in treatment of allergy and currently a target drug for drug repurposing to treat other diseases like vern...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Almutairi FM,Ajmal MR,Siddiqi MK,Majid N,Al-Alawy AIA,Abdelhameed AS,Khan RH

更新日期：2020-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a neuraminidase sequence analysis of thirty-two pediatric patients with influenza B who visited Teikyo University Hospital from January 2016 to March 2017, and found oseltamivir-resistant samples belonging to the Yamagata and Victoria lineages. Comparison with the neuraminidase sequence of oseltamivir-sus...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kato Y,Takahashi K,Ito F,Suzuki S,Fukui K,Mimaki M,Suzuki K

更新日期：2020-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Base sequence effects within double stranded RNA oligomers of A and Z conformations have been studied by molecular modeling using a methodological approach specifically adapted to nucleic acids. Calculations on symmetric oligomers having homonucleotide or dinucleotide repeating base sequences show that sequence change...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Hartmann B,Lavery R

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding, at the molecular level, the effect of AMPs on biological membranes is of crucial importance given the increasing number of multidrug-resistant bacteria. Being part of an ancient type of innate immunity system, AMPs have emerged as a potential solution for which bacteria have not developed resistance. Tr...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Velasco-Bolom JL,Garduño-Juárez R

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Two 4-ns molecular dynamics simulations of calcium loaded calmodulin in solution have been performed, using both standard nonbonded cutoffs and Ewald summation to treat electrostatic interactions. Our simulation results are generally consistent with solution experimental studies of calmodulin structure and dynamics, i...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Yang C,Jas GS,Kuczera K

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BCR-ABL fusion protein drives chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) which constitutively activates tyrosine kinase involved in the initiation and maintenance of CML phenotype. Ponatinib, an oral drug, was discovered as an efficient BCR-ABL inhibitor by addressing imatinib drug resistance arising due to the point mutations at...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Melge AR,Kumar LG,K P,Nair SV,K M,C GM

更新日期：2019-11-01 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：:Investigating the behaviour of bio-molecules through computational mutagenesis is gaining interest to facilitate the development of new therapeutic solutions for infectious diseases. The antigenetically variant genotypes of foot and mouth disease virus (FMDV) and their subsequent infections are challenging to tackle w...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Sahu TK,Pradhan D,Rao AR,Jena L

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:First case of the present epidemic, coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is reported in the Wuhan, a city of the China and all the countries throughout the world are being affected. COVID-19 is named by World Health Organization and it stands for coronavirus disease-19. As on 27th October, 2020, 73,776,588 people around the...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kumar A,Kumar D,Kumar R,Singh P,Chandra R,Kumari K

更新日期：2020-11-03 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：:Vibrio cholerae hemolysin (HlyA) is a 65 kDa pore-forming toxin which causes lysis of target eukaryotic cells by forming heptameric channels in the plasma membrane. Deletion of the 15 kDa C-terminus β-prism carbohydrate-binding domain generates a 50 kDa truncated variant (HlyA50) with 1000-fold-reduced pore-forming ac...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Dutta S,Banerjee KK,Ghosh AN

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sickle cell disease is caused by the amino acid substitution of glutamic acid to valine, which leads to the polymerization of deoxygenated sickle hemoglobin (HbS) into long strands. These strands are responsible for the sickling of red blood cells (RBCs), making blood hyper-coagulable leading to an increased chance of...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Yesudasan S,Douglas SA,Platt MO,Wang X,Averett RD

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New tailored Cu(II) & Zn(II) metal-based antitumor drug entities were synthesized from substituted benzothiazole o‒vanillin Schiff base ligands. The complexes were thoroughly characterized by elemental analysis, spectroscopic studies {IR, 1H & 13C NMR, ESI-MS, EPR} and magnetic susceptibility measurements. The structu...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Zehra S,Shavez Khan M,Ahmad I,Arjmand F

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNaseI digestion studies (Brukner et al, EMBO J 14, 1812-1818 1995) and nucleosomebinding data (Satchwell et al, J. Mol. Biol. 191, 639-659 1986, Goodsell and Dickerson, Nucleic trinucleotides. A detailed comparison of the two models suggests that while both of them represent improvements with respect to dinucleotide ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Brukner I,Sánchez R,Suck D,Pongor S

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been found that DNA molecules are often hooked around obstacles in a U-shaped configuration in gel electrophoresis. To understand the dynamics of the unhooking of U-shaped DNA molecules undergoing gel electrophoresis, we have examined the length changes of the longer and shorter arms of the U-shape as a functio...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Song L,Maestre MF

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

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

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Dubey S,Kallubai M,Subramanyam R

更新日期：2020-10-01 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：:Inhibition of normal cellular apoptosis or programed cell death is the hallmark of all cancers. Apoptotic dysregulation can result in numerous pathological conditions, such as cancers, autoimmune disorders, and neurodegeneration. Members of the BCL-2 family of proteins regulate the process of apoptosis by its promotio...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Anantram A,Kundaikar H,Degani M,Prabhu A

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The location, orientation and dynamics of a thiazole-containing analogue of distamycin 1 bound to the decadeoxyribonucleotide d-[CGCAATTGCG]2 have been studied by non-exchangable and imino proton NMR resonances of the 1:1 complex. Using NOE difference, COSY and NOESY experiments, lexitropsin (1) was located in the min...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kumar S,Bathini Y,Joseph T,Pon RT,Lown JW

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two naphthalene-containing compounds, 4-hydroxy-6,7-dimethoxy-1-(4-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)-2-naphthoic acid (A) and 4-hydroxy-6,7-dimethoxy-1-phenyl-2-naphthoic acid (B), were prepared by several steps. Their bindings to human serum albumin (HSA) were studied by ultraviolet-visible (UV-vis) absorption, fluorescence, ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Wang X,Xing Y,Su J,Wang C,Wang Z,Yu Y,Xu H,Ma D

更新日期：2020-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:EcoRII DNA methyltransferase (M.EcoRII) recognizes the DNA sequence 5'.CC*T/AGG.3' and catalyzes the transfer of the methyl group from S-adenosyl-L-methionine to the C5 position of the inner cytosine residue (C*). We obtained several DNA duplexes containing photoactive 5-iodo-2'-deoxyuridine (i(5)dU) or 5-[4-(3-(trifl...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Koudan EV,Subach OM,Korshunova GA,Romanova EA,Eritja R,Gromova ES

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have applied random-search, energy minimization and molecular dynamics simulations to investigate the structural aspects of the interaction of N-acetyl-L-prolyl-D-alanyl-L-alanine-N'-methylamide with Ca2+. Spectral data on related peptides had suggested that the beta-turn conformation might be a prerequisite for th...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Michel AG,Jeandenans C,Ananthanarayanan VS

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamine synthetase (GS) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is an essential enzyme which is involved in nitrogen metabolism and cell wall synthesis. It is involved in the inhibition of phagosome-lysosome fusion by preventing acidification. Targeting GS can be helpful to control the infection of Mtb. In order to iden...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kumari M,Subbarao N

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia trachomatis (C.t) is a Gram-negative obligate intracellular bacteria and is a major causative of infectious blindness and sexually transmitted diseases. Among the varied serovars of this organism, A, B and C are reported as prominent ocular pathogens. Genomic studies of these strains shall aid in deciphering...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Sadhasivam A,Vetrivel U

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00