abstract：:The first and second moment operators are used to define the origin invariant shape and size of a molecule or functional group, as well as expressions for the distance between two electrons and the distance between an electron and a nucleus. The measure of molecular size correlates quite well with an existing theoreti...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Hollett JW,Poirier RA

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prussian Blue is a paradigmatic mixed valence material and a parent compound to a broad family of electronically, optically, and magnetically active materials. Its exact composition varies greatly depending on the preparation route, leading to large variations in its electronic properties. The influence of water molec...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Wojdeł JC

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adsorption of paracresol and water into the silicalite-1 (MFI) zeolite has been investigated using canonical and grand-canonical Monte Carlo simulations. The most stable sites of adsorption of paracresol are found to be located at the channel intersections. Grand-canonical simulations have shown that at low loading, w...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Boulet P,Narasimhan L,Berg'e-Lefranc D,Kuchta B,Schäf O,Denoyel R

更新日期：2009-06-01 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：:With the help of quantum chemical calculations, S(AuPH3)2, [HS(AuPH3)2]+ and their dimers have been examined by using scalar-relativistic theory. In agreement with experimental data, [HS(AuPH3)2 +]2 is a C(2h) structure. However, [S(AuPH3)2]2 is predicted to favor a D(2d) structure. Experimental structure parameters o...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Fang H,Zhang XG,Wang SG

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 3D QSAR analysis has been performed on a series of 67 benzodiazepine analogues reported as gamma-secretase inhibitors using molecular field analysis (MFA), with G/PLS to predict steric and electrostatic molecular field interaction for the activity. The MFA study was carried out using a training set of 54 compounds. ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Sammi T,Silakari O,Ravikumar M

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aminoglycoside-arginine conjugates (AAC and APAC) are multi-target inhibitors of human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1). Here, we predict new conjugates of neomycin with two arginine peptide chains binding at specific sites on neomycin [poly-arginine-neomycin-poly-arginine (PA-Neo-PA)]. The rationale for the desi...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Berchanski A,Lapidot A

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This theoretical study presents a comparative analysis of the molecular properties of heterocyclic (C2H4O...HF and C2H5...HF) and homocyclic (C3H6...HF) hydrogen-bonded complexes. Initially, the equilibrium geometries of these complexes were analyzed in detail at the B3LYP/6-311++G(d,p) level of theory. Subsequently, ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Oliveira BG,Araújo RC,Carvalho AB,Ramos MN

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus anthracis has been employed as an agent of bioterrorism, with high mortality, despite anti-microbial treatment, which strongly indicates the need of new drugs to treat anthrax. Shikimate pathway is a seven step biosynthetic route which generates chorismic acid from phosphoenol pyruvate and erythrose-4-phospha...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Barcellos GB,Caceres RA,de Azevedo WF Jr

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mechanical molecular rotation model for liquid crystal (LC) systems is employed to evaluate phase transition temperature of fluorinated phenylbicyclohexane isomeric LC compounds. Results show that when a fluorine atom is substituted along the molecular long axis, an LC molecule acquires high rotational speed and its...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Ma H,Li ZX,Shi DH,Liu YF

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclooxygenase (COX) enzymes catalyse the biosynthesis of prostaglandins and thromboxane from arachidonic acid (AA). We summarize in this paper, the development of pharmacophores of a dataset of inhibitors for COX-2 by using the Catalyst/Hypogen module using six chemically diverse series of compounds. Training set con...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Chopra M,Gupta R,Gupta S,Saluja D

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ONIOM2 (B3LYP/6-31G (d, p): PM3) and B3LYP/6-31G (d, p) methods were applied to investigate the interaction between STI-571 and abelson tyrosine kinase binding site. The complex of N-[4-methyl-3-(4-pyridin-3-yl-pyrimidin-2-ylamino)- phenyl]-benzamide (part of STI-571) and related 16 amino acid residues were found ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Xiong YZ,Chen PY

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, it has become clear that the neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) is a valid target in the treatment of a variety of diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, anxiety, and nicotine addiction. As with most membrane proteins, information on the three-dimensional (3D) structure of nAChR is li...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Bisson WH,Westera G,Schubiger PA,Scapozza L

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The shuttling motion of a macrocycle in rotaxane-based molecular switching devices has been studied by computational density functional methods. In the test case, energy profiles corresponding to the dethreading process of different types of guest molecules in a cyclobis(paraquat-p-phenylene) host verified the experim...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Hirva P,Haukka M,Pakkanen TA

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is evidence that Tetracyclines are potentially useful drugs to treat prion disease, the fatal neurodegenerative disease in which cellular prion proteins change in conformation to become a disease-specific species (PrP(Sc)). Based on an in vitro anti-fibrillogenesis test, and using the peptide PrP106-126 in the p...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Cosentino U,Pitea D,Moro G,Saracino GA,Caria P,Varì RM,Colombo L,Forloni G,Tagliavini F,Salmona M

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The geometries of three isomers of the C2H4O...2HF tri-molecular heterocyclic hydrogen-bonded complex were examined through B3LYP/aug-cc-pVDZ calculations. Analysis of structural parameters, determination of CHELPG (charge electrostatic potential grid) intermolecular charge transfer, interpretation of infrared stretch...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： de Oliveira BG,Araújo RC,Chagas FF,Carvalho AB,Ramos MN

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following our recent studies of the thermodynamic properties of azaspiropentane and borospiropentane, in consideration of their usefulness as new potential high energy materials, we follow up with ab initio calculations on the thermodynamic properties of azaborospiropentanes. Properties reported in this study include ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Richard RM,Ball DW

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular geometry, vibrational frequencies, gauge including atomic orbital (GIAO) (1)H and (13)C chemical shift values and several thermodynamic parameters of 5-(2-Hydroxyphenyl)-4-(p-tolyl)-2,4-dihydro-1,2,4-triazole-3-thione in the ground state have been calculated by using the Hartree-Fock (HF) and density fun...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Dinçer M,Avci D,Sekerci M,Atalay Y

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ankyrin repeat proteins (ARPs) appear to be abundant in organisms from all phyla, and play critical regulatory roles, mediating specific interactions with target biomolecules and thus ordering the sequence of events in diverse cellular processes. ARPs possess a non-globular scaffold consisting of repeating motifs name...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Sklenovský P,Banás P,Otyepka M

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three potential anticancer agents {trans-[PtCl(2)(NH(3))(thiazole)], cis-[PtCl(2)(NH(3))(piperidine)], and PtCl(2)(NH(3))(cyclohexylamine) (JM118)} were explored and compared with cisplatin and the inactive [PtCl(dien)](+) complex. Basic electronic properties, bonding and stabilization energies were determined, and th...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Bradác O,Zimmermann T,Burda JV

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amino acid sequence alignments of the transcriptional regulator AfeR, which is involved in type 1 quorum sensing (QS) in Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans bacteria, with other acyl homoserine lactone (AHL)-dependent QS regulators, revealed the presence of strictly or highly conserved residues located in the active site o...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Soulère L,Guiliani N,Queneau Y,Jerez CA,Doutheau A

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular modeling of the La(III) complex of 3,3'-(benzylidene)bis(4-hydroxycoumarin) (PhDC) was performed using density functional theory (DFT) methods at B3LYP/6-31G(d) and BP86/TZP levels. Both Stuttgart-Dresden effective core potential and ZORA approximation were applied to the La(III) center. The electron density...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Mihaylov T,Trendafilova N,Georgieva I

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathway and ab initio direct kinetics of the decomposition 5-aminotetrazole (5-ATZ) to HN(3) and NH(2)CN was investigated. Reactant, products and transition state were optimized with MP2 and B3LYP methods using 6-311G** and aug-cc-pVDZ basis sets. The intrinsic reaction coordinate curve of the reaction was calcula...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Zhang JG,Feng LN,Zhang SW,Zhang TL,Zheng HH

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial cytidylate kinase or cytidine monophosphate kinase (CMP kinase) catalyses the phosphoryl transfer from ATP to CMP and dCMP, resulting in the formation nucleoside diphosphates. In eukaryotes, CMP/UMP kinase catalyses the conversion of UMP and CMP to, respectively, UDP and CDP with high efficiency. This work d...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Caceres RA,Macedo Timmers LF,Vivan AL,Schneider CZ,Basso LA,De Azevedo WF Jr,Santos DS

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:G-Quadruplex and i-Motif-forming sequences in the promoter regions of several oncogenes show promise as targets for the regulation of oncogenes. In this study, molecular models were created for the c-MYC NHE-III(1) (nuclease hypersensitivity element III(1)) from two 39-base complementary sequences. The NHE modeled her...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Cashman DJ,Buscaglia R,Freyer MW,Dettler J,Hurley LH,Lewis EA

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following our recent study on triazane, we present a follow-up study on the thermodynamic properties of triazane's unsaturated analog, triazene. We predict optimized structural parameters, vibrational frequencies, enthalpies of formation, enthalpies of combustion, specific enthalpies of combustion, and proton affiniti...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Richard RM,Ball DW

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Artemisinin and some derivatives with activity against D-6 strains of Plasmodium falciparum were studied. Molecular electrostatic potential (MEP) maps were used in an attempt to identify key features of the compounds that are necessary for their activities, and then use those to propose new artemisinin derivatives. Th...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Cardoso FJ,de Figueiredo AF,da Silva Lobato M,de Miranda RM,de Almeida RC,Pinheiro JC

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between tetramethylcucurbit[6]uril (host) and 5,5'-dimethyl-2,2'-bipyridyl hydrochloride (guest) was studied by 1H NMR, X-ray crystallography, electronic absorption spectroscopy, fluorescence emission spectra and quantum chemistry calculations. This experimental-computational study that indicated the h...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Cong H,Zhao YJ,Xue SF,Tao Z,Zhu QJ

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Through comparison with ab initio reference data, we have evaluated the performance of various density functionals for describing pi-pi interactions as a function of the geometry between two stacked benzenes or benzene analogs, between two stacked DNA bases, and between two stacked Watson-Crick pairs. Our main purpose...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Swart M,van der Wijst T,Fonseca Guerra C,Bickelhaupt FM

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen KSP inhibitors were docked into the receptor and the binding mode was analyzed for the first time. It was considered that in addition to the main binding pocket all the inhibitors merged in, there exists a cooperative minor binding pocket, which could be explored for significantly increased binding affinity. I...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Jiang C,Chen Y,Wang X,You Q

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theoretical investigation of Pt(0)-olefin organometallic complexes containing tertiary phosphine ligands was focused on the strength of platinum-olefin electronic interaction. DFT theoretical study of electronic effects in a substantial number of ethylene derivatives was evaluated in terms of the Pt-olefin binding ene...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Karhánek D,Kacer P,Kuzma M,Splíchalová J,Cervený L

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge-based models for protein folding assume that the early-stage structural form of a polypeptide is determined by the backbone conformation, followed by hydrophobic collapse. Side chain-side chain interactions, mostly of hydrophobic character, lead to the formation of the hydrophobic core, which seems to stabil...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Brylinski M,Kochanczyk M,Broniatowska E,Roterman I

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Realistic molecular models of one and two-centre catalytic active sites originating from the cleavage of a precursor material known to give rise to an active double metal cyanide catalyst are described. Via periodic density functional calculations the structure of the proposed catalytic sites are shown to be dependent...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Wojdeł JC,Bromley ST,Illas F,Jansen JC

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Grand Canonical Monte Carlo method was used to analyse the phenomenon of adsorption of aromatic compounds (i.e. phenol, toluene, benzoic acid and salicylic acid) on the surface of the titania-silica (TiO2/SiO2) catalyst. We found that different types of interactions play important roles in the adsorption of molecu...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Szyja B,Brodzik K

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug resistance is a very important factor contributing to the failure of current HIV therapies. The ability to understand the resistance mechanism of HIV-protease mutants may be useful in developing more effective and longer lasting treatment regimens. In this paper, we report the first computational study of the cli...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Meiselbach H,Horn AH,Harrer T,Sticht H

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of tuberculosis infections that are resistant to conventional drug therapy has risen steadily in the last decade. Several of the quinolone antibacterials have been examined as inhibitors of M. tuberculosis infection as well as other mycobacterial infections. However, not much has been done to examine spe...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Bagchi MC,Mills D,Basak SC

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:With the help of quantum mechanical calculations, we have examined the series of central system X(ML)(3) (+)(X = O, S, Se; M = Au, Ag, Cu). Using a scalar-relativistic density functional approach, we studied the geometry structures, Mulliken populations and charges of the systems. Structure parameters of the experimen...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Fang H,Wang SG

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stratum corneum, the outer layer of the epidermis, serves as a protective barrier to isolate the skin from the external environment. Keratinocyte transglutaminase 1 (TGase 1) catalyzes amide crosslinking between glutamine and lysine residues on precursor proteins forming the impermeable layers of the epidermal cel...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Boeshans KM,Mueser TC,Ahvazi B

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the complete orthonormal sets of phi(alpha)-momentum space orbitals (where alpha = 1, 0, -1, -2, ...) obtained from the psi(alpha)-ETO in coordinate representation (I.I. Guseinov, J. Mol. Model., 9 (2003) 135) are reduced to the complete orthonormal sets of hyperspherical harmonics (HSH) by means of a F...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Guseinov II

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00