The structure and dynamics of the U4/U6 snRNP: implications for pre-mRNA splicing and use as a model system to investigate the RNA-mediated effects of (5F)Ura.

abstract：:The potassium channel Kv1.3 is an important pharmacological target and the Kaliotoxin-type toxins (α-KTX-3 family) are its specific blockers. Here, we study the binding process of two kinds of Kaliotoxin-type toxins:BmKTX and its mutant (BmKTX-D33H) toward to Kv1.3 channel using MD simulation and umbrella sampling sim...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Zheng Q,Na R,Yang L,Yu H,Zhao X,Huang X

更新日期：2020-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of two widely used polyphenols, curcumin and EGCG was investigated on the amyloid fibrillogenesis of the well-characterized model protein human lysozyme (HuL), associated with non-neuropathic systemic amyloidosis, towards exploring their efficacy as modulators of HuL amyloid aggregation and toxicity and unr...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Zaidi FK,Bhat R

更新日期：2020-12-17 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：:CLTOAB is an ammonium-based ionic liquid composed of ε-Caprolactam (CL) C6H11NO and tetraoctylammonium bromide (TOAB) (C32H68BrN). In this study, experimental IR and Raman spectra of CLTOAB ionic liquid together with the computational results of the compound have been reported. The optimized geometry, vibrational freq...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Celik S,Albayrak AT,Akyuz S,E Ozel A

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The secondary structure of a bradykinin B(1)receptor antagonist B-10324 (F5C-Lys-(1)- Lys(0)-Arg(1)-Pro(2)- Hyp(3)-Gly(4)-CpG(5)- Ser(6)-DTic(7)-CpG(8)) was determined by NMR at 800MHz. The conformational data are compared with those obtained previously for two bradykinin B(1) receptor antagonists, namely B-9858 (Lys-...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Miskolzie M,Gera L,Stewart JM,Kotovych G

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient interactions between cancer stem cells and components of the tumor microenvironment initiate various signaling pathways crucial for carcinogenesis. Predominant hyaluronan (HA) receptor, CD44 is structurally and functionally one of the most variable cell surface receptors having the potential to generate a di...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Patel S,Shaikh F,Devaraji V,Radadiya A,Shah K,Shah A,Rawal R

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug resistant mutations have severely restricted the success of HIV therapy. These mutations frequently involve the aspartic protease encoded by the virus. Knowledge of the molecular mechanisms underlying the conformational changes of HIV-1 protease mutants may be useful in developing more effective and longer lastin...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Purohit R,Rajendran V,Sethumadhavan R

更新日期：2011-08-01 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：: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：:Traditionally biased usage of synonymous codons renders selective advantage to proteins expressed at high levels with a few exceptions like in Escherichia coli. Proteome-wide characteristics indicative of trends in highly expressed proteins of E. coli is analyzed in this communication. Implications for the nature of i...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kahali B,Ghosh TC

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NAD(P)H: quinone oxidoreductase 1 (NQO1) inhibitors are proved as promising therapeutic agents against cancer. This study is to determine potent NAD(P)H-dependent NQO1 inhibitors with new scaffold. Pharmacophore-based three-dimensional (3D) QSAR model has been built based on 45 NQO1 inhibitors reported in the literatu...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Selvakumar R,Anantha Krishnan D,Ramakrishnan C,Velmurugan D,Gunasekaran K

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has described the interaction between the novel molecule diethidium (2,7-diamino 9-[2,7 diamino 10-N-phenanthridium] 10-N-phenanthridium) (Figure 1) and B-form DNA. Our goal is the elucidation of diethidium as the first member of a novel class of drugs which are potential pharmaceutical agents. This ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Monaco RR,Polkosnik W,Dwarakanath S

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human male germ cell-associated kinase (hMAK) is an androgen-inducible gene in prostate epithelial cells, and it acts as a coactivator of androgen receptor signaling in prostate cancer. The 3D structure of the hMAK kinase was modeled based on the crystal structure of CDK2 kinase using comparative modeling methods, and...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Tanneeru K,Balla AR,Guruprasad L

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:P21-activated kinase 4 (PAK4) is a serine/threonine protein kinase, which is associated with many cancer diseases, and thus being considered as a potential drug target. In this study, three-dimensional quantitative structure-activity relationship (3D-QSAR), molecular docking and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations wer...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Gao Y,Wang H,Wang J,Cheng M

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional aspect of several mycobacterium proteins annotated as hypothetical are yet to be discovered. In the present investigation, in silico approaches were used to predict the biological function of some of the unknown Mtb proteins, which were further validated by wet lab experiments. After screening thousands...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kumar A,Sharma A,Kaur G,Makkar P,Kaur J

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

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：:Tyrosinase plays an important role in melanin biosynthesis and protects skin against ultraviolet radiations. Functional deficiency of tyrosinase results in serious dermatological diseases. Tyrosinase also participates in neuromelanin formation in the human brain, which leads to neurodegeneration resulting in Parkinson...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Ghayas S,Ali Masood M,Parveen R,Aquib M,Farooq MA,Banerjee P,Sambhare S,Bavi R

更新日期：2020-07-01 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 sequence dependent conformation, flexibility and hydration properties of DNA molecules constitute selectivity determinants in the formation of protein-DNA complexes. TATA boxes in which AT basepairs (bp) have been substituted by IC bp (TITI box) allow for probing these selectivity determinants for the complexation...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Pastor N,MacKerell AD Jr,Weinstein H

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The N-terminal receiver domain of NtrC is the molecular switch in the two-component signal transduction. It is the first protein where structures of both the active (phosphyroylated) and inactive (unphosphyroylated) states are determined experimentally. Phosphorylation of the NtrC at the active site induces large stru...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Hu X,Wang Y

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of meso-tetra-(4N-oxyethylpyridyl)porphyrin (TOEPyP4) and its Zn(II)-, Cu(II)-, Mn(III)-derivatives with tRNA from E.Coli at low ionic strength (micro=0.02M) was studied using UV/Vis spectrophotometry and Circular Dichroism (CD) methods. An unusual Induced Circular Dichroism (ICD) spectra profile of th...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Dalyan Y,Vardanyan I,Chavushyan A,Balayan G

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular dynamics (MD) studies have been carried out on the Hoogsteen hydrogen bonded parallel and the reverse Hoogsteen hydrogen bonded antiparallel C.G*G triplexes. Earlier, the molecular mechanics studies had shown that the parallel structure was energetically more favourable than the antiparallel structure. To ch...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kiran MR,Bansal M

更新日期：1998-12-01 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

abstract：:A simplified multidimensional search was applied to determine the structure of deoxyhexamer CGCGCG in the crystal form belonging to the space group C222(1) (a = 45.6 A, b = 37.3 A, c = 70.3 A). This crystal form contains two Z-DNA duplexes per asymmetric unit in a similar orientation. The search consists of several ma...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Strokopytov BV,Malinina LV

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of bacterial resistance toward antibiotics has been led to pay attention to the antimicrobial peptides (AMPs). The common mechanism of AMPs is disrupting the integrity of the bacterial membrane. One of the most accessible targets for α-defensins human neutrophil peptide-1 (HNP-1) is lipid II. In the pr...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Moazzezy N,Rismani E,Rezaei M,Karam MRA,Rafati S,Bouzari S,Oloomi M

更新日期：2020-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanoma is a malignant cancer of the skin associated with a high mortality. Early medical diagnosis and surgical intervention are essential for the treatment of melanoma. The use of plant-based compounds is an important strategy for the prevention and treatment of different types of cancers. Curcumin is a promising n...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Ghazaeian M,Khorsandi K,Hosseinzadeh R,Naderi A,Abrahamse H

更新日期：2020-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In negatively supercoiled DNA molecules some inverted repeat sequences adopt a perturbed conformation which is characterised by the following properties. They are centrally hypersensitive to single-strand-specific nucleases such as S1, and to a much lower extent the flanking regions may also be sensitive. They are als...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Lilley DM,Hallam LR

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minidumbbell (MDB) is a newly found non-B DNA structure formed by short single-strand sequences. Up to now, three MDBs have been reported to form at neutral pH by sequences containing two repeats of TTTA, CCTG and CTTG. Among them, the thermodynamically less stable TTTA and CCTG MDBs have been proposed to be the struc...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Guo P,Lam SL

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computations on the energy profiles for Na+ in the gramicidin A (GA) channel have been extended by introducing the effect, previously neglected, of the amino acid side chains of GA, fixed in their most stable conformations. The calculations have been performed in two approximations: 1) with the ethanolamine tail fixed...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Etchebest C,Pullman A

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA.DNA hybrid duplexes are relevant in various biological mechanisms like transcription and replication. Enzymes like RNase H cleave specifically the RNA strand in RNA.DNA duplexes. In antisense technology the complexation of mRNA with "modified" oligo(deoxy)-nucleotides leads to new hybrid duplexes. The knowledge ab...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Fritsch V,Wolf RM

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00