Parallel and antiparallel G*G.C base triplets in pur*pur.pyr triple helices formed with (GA) third strands.

abstract：:The binding of quinolones, nalidixic acid (Nal), oxolinic acid (Oxo) with double stranded polynucleotides was undertaken by using UV-melting, UV-Vis absorption, fluorescence and CD spectroscopic techniques. The binding of Nal or Oxo to the polynucleotides under low-salt buffer conditions were determined for poly (dA)....

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Jain A,Rajeswari MR

更新日期：2002-10-01 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：: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：:Hinge-bending in T4 lysozyme has been inferred from single amino acid mutant crystalline allomorphs by Matthews and coworkers. This raises an important question: are the different conformers in the unit cell artifacts of crystal packing forces, or do they represent different solution state structures? The objective of...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Arnold GE,Manchester JI,Townsend BD,Ornstein RL

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma membrane of each micro-organism has a unique set of lipid composition as a consequence of the environmental adaptation or a response to exposure to antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) as antibiotic agents. Understanding the relationship between lipid composition and action of antimicrobial peptides or considering how...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Rahmanpour A,Ghahremanpour MM,Mehrnejad F,Moghaddam ME

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osmium tetroxide complexes with nitrogen ligands (Os,L) have been widely used as probes of the DNA structure. A monoclonal antibody OsBP7H8 against DNA adducts with Os,L was produced in mice. OsBP7H8 does not bind to proteins or total yeast RNA modified with Os,2,2'-bipyridine (bipy) nor to the unmodified nucleic acid...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Bůzek J,Kuderová A,Pexa T,Stanková V,Lauerová L,Palecek E

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress tolerance is one of the most prominent and interesting topics in biology since many macro- and micro-adaptations have evolved in resistant organisms that are worth studying. When it comes to confronting various environmental stressors, the extremophile Artemia is unrivaled in the animal kingdom. In the present ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Khodajou-Masouleh H,Shahangian SS,Attar F,H Sajedi R,Rasti B

更新日期：2020-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we propose a new method based on the 2-D graphical representation to analyze the similarity of biological sequences and classify the protein secondary structure sequences. Instead of computing some characteristics from the distance matrix, the average area surrounded by the curve and X axis is computed ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Huang W,Guo Y,Zhang J

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coumarin molecules have biological activities possessing lipid-controlling activity, anti-hepatitis C activity, anti-diabetic, anti-Parkinson activity, and anti-cancer activity. Here, we have presented an inclusive study on the interaction of 8-substituted-7-hydroxy coumarin derivatives (Umb-1/Umb-2) with α-1-glycopro...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Yeggoni DP,Manidhar DM,Suresh Reddy C,Subramanyam R

更新日期：2016-09-01 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：: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 simple relation exists between the packing density in crystals of short A-DNA duplexes and their global double-helical structure. The volume per nucleotide pair shows a linear inverse correlation with the mean displacement of base pairs from the best straight helix axis. The mean displacement is a measure of major g...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Heinemann U

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) is known to be a significantly effective strategy in cancer therapy. Here, pyrazolopyranopyrimidine derivatives were characterized as new Hsp90 inhibitors. The molecules' key structure (ZINC02819805) was determined by utilizing a pharmacophore model virtual screening workflo...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Abbasi M,Amanlou M,Aghaei M,Bakherad M,Doosti R,Sadeghi-Aliabadi H

更新日期：2020-08-01 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：:Binding affinities of flavonols namely quercetin, myricetin, and kaempferol to human serum albumin (HSA) were determined fluorimetrically and the order was observed to be myricetin > quercetin > kaempferol demonstrating structure-activity relationship. Quercetin-coated silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) show higher binding ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Das P,Chaudhari SK,Das A,Kundu S,Saha C

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A stably-bound external binding site for ethidium cation in the major groove of B-form DNA is proposed. This complex is stabilized by hydrogen bonding between this ligand and the nucleophilic centers O6 and N7 of guanine, both of which are accessible via the major groove. This binding site is not the same as the well-...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Monaco RR

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temporal order ("chronology") of appearance of amino acids and their respective codons on evolutionary scene is reconstructed. A consensus chronology of amino acids is built on the basis of 60 different criteria each offering certain temporal order. After several steps of filtering the chronology vectors are averaged ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Trifonov EN

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elicitins, produced by most of the phytopathogenic fungi of the genus Phytophthora, provoke in the tobacco plant both remote leaf necrosis and the induction of a resistance against subsequent attack by various micro-organisms. The crystal structure of b-cryptogein (CRY), secreted by Phytophthora cryptogea, was previou...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Demaret S,Demaret JP,Brunie S

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription factors regulate gene expression through binding to specific DNA sequences. How transcription factors achieve high binding specificity is still not well understood. In this paper, we investigated the role of protein flexibility in protein-DNA-binding specificity by comparative molecular dynamics (MD) sim...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Song W,Guo JT

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To provide an in-depth insight into the molecular basis of spontaneous tautomerism in DNA and RNA base pairs, a hybrid Monte Carlo (MC)-quantum chemical (QC) methodology is implemented to map two-dimensional potential energy surfaces along the reaction coordinates of solvent-assisted proton transfer processes in guano...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Markova N,Pejov L,Stoyanova N,Enchev V

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colchicine, a tricyclic alkaloid, has a remarkable range of biological activities. It binds with tubulin and prevents the formation of microtubules. This compound consists of a six membered aromatic ring (A ring), a seven membered troponoid ring (C ring) and another seven membered aliphatic ring (B ring). Using molecu...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Bothra AK,Roy S,Bhattacharyya B,Mukhopadhyay C

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins interact with carbohydrates to perform various cellular interactions. Of the many carbohydrate ligands that proteins bind with, mannose constitute an important class, playing important roles in host defense mechanisms. Accurate identification of mannose-interacting residues (MIR) may provide important clues t...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Pai PP,Mondal S

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Galantamine (Gnt) is a natural alkaloid inhibitor of acetylcholinesterase and is presently one of the most used drugs in the treatment against Alzheimer's disease during both the initial and intermediate stages. Among several natural Gnt derivatives, sanguinine (Sng) and lycoramine (Lyc) attract attention because of t...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Rocha REO,Lima LHF

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleoprotein (NP) binds the viral RNA genome as oligomers assembled with the polymerase in a ribonucleoprotein complex required for transcription and replication of influenza A virus. Novel antiviral candidates targeting the nucleoprotein either induced higher order oligomers or reduced NP oligomerization by targ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Tarus B,Bertrand H,Zedda G,Di Primo C,Quideau S,Slama-Schwok A

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of a significant number of the structures of helical membrane proteins has prompted us to investigate the mode of helix-helix packing. In the present study, we have considered a dataset of alpha-helical membrane proteins representing structures solved from all the known superfamilies. We have describe...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Jha AN,Vishveshwara S

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cold shock proteins (CSPs) are ancient nucleic acid-binding proteins and well conserved from bacteria to animals as well as plants. In prokaryotes, CSPs possess a single cold shock domain (CSD) while animal CSPs, flanked by N- and C-terminal domains, are commonly named Y-box proteins. Interestingly, the plants CSPs co...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Mani A,Gupta DK

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:The design and DNA binding activity of beta-structure-forming peptides and netropsin-peptide conjugates are reported. It is found that a pair of peptides-S,S'-bis(Lys-Gly-Val-Cys-Val-NH-NH-Dns)-bridged by an S-S bond binds at least 10 times more strongly to poly(dG).poly(dC) than to poly(dA).poly(dT). This peptide can...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Nikolaev VA,Grokhovsky SL,Surovaya AN,Leinsoo TA,Sidorova NYu,Zasedatelev AS,Zhuze AL,Strahan GA,Shafer RH,Gursky GV

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Falcipain-2 (FP-2) is a member of papain family of cysteine proteases and the major hemoglobinase of the hemoglobin detoxification and hemozoin polymerization complex localized in the food vacuole of the plasmodium species. FP-2 is currently gaining clinical significance as the drug target of choice in combating malar...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Omotuyi IO,Hamada T

更新日期：2015-01-01 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