abstract：:Structure-olfactive threshold relationships for 40 pyrazine derivatives have been studied by multivariate statistical analysis. Variable descriptors used to describe the molecules studied were obtained using molecular-mechanics software. A correlation coefficient of 0.82 was obtained when all the molecules were includ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Zakarya D,Farhaoui L,Hamidi M,Bouachrine M

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Orvinols are potent analgesics that target opioid receptors. However, their analgesic mechanism remains unclear and no significant preference for subtype opioid receptor has been achieved. In order to find new orvinols that target the kappa-receptor, comparative 3D-QSAR studies were performed on 26 orvinol analogs usi...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Li W,Tang Y,Xie Q,Sheng W,Qiu ZB

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work molecular modeling was applied to generate homology models of the pore region of the Na(v)1.2 and Na(v)1.8 isoforms of human voltage-gated sodium channels. The models represent the channels in the resting, open, and fast-inactivated states. The transmembrane portions of the channels were based on the equi...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Scheib H,McLay I,Guex N,Clare JJ,Blaney FE,Dale TJ,Tate SN,Robertson GM

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aquatic leech, Theromyzon tessulatum, secretes a proteinaceous cocoon with extraordinary physical properties (e.g., proteolytic, thermal resiliency). The deduced amino acid sequence of a major protein (Tcp-Theromyzon cocoon protein) from the T. tessulatum cocoon wall has been used to model the endogenous structure...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Mason TA,McIlroy PJ,Shain DH

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, several new chelating reagents have been synthesized and tested for their collecting power in sulfide and non-sulfide minerals flotation. Many researchers have indicated that chelating reagents have the advantage of offering better selectivity and specificity as flotation collectors. Therefore, densit...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Yekeler H,Yekeler M

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, eight oxytocin (OT) antagonists were subjected to conformational analysis. By means of simulated annealing, 2,000 structures were generated to sample the conformational space. The preferred main-chain and side-chain dihedral angles, intramolecular H-bond interactions (types 1<--4 and 1<--3), and seconda...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Jójárt B,Márki A

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The p38-mitogen-activated protein kinases (p38-MAPKs) belong to a family of serine-threonine kinases activated by pro-inflammatory or stressful stimuli that are known to be involved in several diseases. Their biological importance, related to the release of inflammatory pro-cytokines such as tumor necrosis factor-alph...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Romeiro NC,Albuquerque MG,de Alencastro RB,Ravi M,Hopfinger AJ

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:49Ti chemical shifts for a total of 20 titanium complexes are reported, and several levels of theory are evaluated in order to identify a reliable approach for the calculation of titanium NMR data. The popular B3LYP/6-31G(d)//B3LYP/6-31G(d) proves to give very good agreement with experimental data over a range from 1,...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Koch R,Bruhn T

更新日期：2006-07-01 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

abstract：:Bicyclo[3.3.1]nonylidenebicyclo[3.3.1]nonane (1) and adamantylideneadamantane (Ad=Ad) are two caged olefins with closely related structures at the double bond. Both compounds react instantaneously with Br2 in chlorinated hydrocarbon solvents to give mixtures of olefin-Br2 aggregates identified as the 1:1 pi-complex an...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Chiappe C,Pomelli CS,Lenoir D,Wattenbach C

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular-dynamics simulations have been used to study the diffusion of a short single model carbonic chain on the graphite (001) surface. The calculated diffusion coefficient (D) first increases, then decreases with increasing chain length (N). This abnormal behavior is similar to polymer lateral diffusion at the sol...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Yang H,Lu ZY,Li ZS,Sun CC

更新日期：2006-03-01 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：:In an attempt to analyze structure, function and evolution of HIV-1 GP120 V3, interactions among the Hartree-Fock energy, the conformational entropy and the Shannon entropy were determined for the 1NJ0 set of antibody-bound V3 loop conformers. The Hartree-Fock energy of each conformer was determined at the MINI level ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Weltman JK,Skowron G,Loriot GB

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ion-pair S(N)2 reaction LiNCS + CH3F with two mechanisms, inversion and retention, was investigated at the MP2(full)/6-311+G**//HF/6-311+G** level in the gas phase and in acetone solution. All HF-optimized structures were confirmed by vibrational frequency analysis. Based on IRC analyses, eight possible reaction p...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Ren Y,Li M,Wong NB,Chu SY

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two uridine 2',3'-cyclic monophosphate (cUMP) derivatives, 5'-deoxy (DcUMP) and 5'-O-methyl (McUMP), were studied by means of quantum chemical methods. Aqueous solvent effects were estimated based on the isodensity-surface polarized-continuum model (IPCM). Gas phase calculations revealed only slight energy differences...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Grabarkiewicz T,Hoffmann M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The double-histone fold is a rare protein fold in which two consecutive regions characterized by the typical structure of histones assemble together, thus giving a histone pseudodimer. Previously, this fold was found in a few prokaryotic histones and in the regulatory region of guanine-nucleotide exchange factors of t...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Greco C,Sacco E,Vanoni M,De Gioia L

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclin-dependent kinases (Cdks) play important roles in the regulation of the cell cycle. Their inhibitors have entered clinical trials to treat cancer. Very recently, Davis et al. (Nat Struct Biol 9:745-749, 2002) have found a ligand NU6102, which has a high affinity with cyclin-dependent kinase 2 (K(i) = 6 nM) but a...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Jiang Y,Zou J,Gui C

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the effects of substituents on the computed electrostatic potentials V(S)(r) and average local ionization energies I(S)(r) on the surfaces of model carbon nanotubes of the types (5,5), (6,1) and (6,0). For the (5,5) and the (6,1), the effects upon both V(S)(r) and I(S)(r) of substituting a hydroxyl gr...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Politzer P,Murray JS,Lane P,Concha MC,Jin P,Peralta-Inga Z

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using addition theorems for complete orthonormal sets of exponential type orbitals in the momentum representation introduced by the author, the addition theorems are established for Slater type orbitals in momentum space. With the help of these addition theorems, the general series expansion formulae in terms of the p...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Guseinov II

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to understand the mechanisms of ligand binding and the interaction between the ligand and the bovine phenol sulfotransferase, (bSULT1A1, EC 2.8.2.1) a three-dimensional (3D) model of the bSULT1A1 is generated based on the crystal structure of the estrogen sulfotransferase (PDB code 1AQU) by using the InsightI...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Zheng QC,Li ZS,Xiao JF,Sun M,Zhang Y,Sun CC

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanosecond molecular dynamics using the Ewald summation method have been performed to elucidate the structural and energetic role of the closing base pair in loop-loop RNA duplexes neutralized by Mg2+ counterions in aqueous phases. Mismatches GA, CU and Watson-Crick GC base pairs have been considered for closing the l...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Golebiowski J,Antonczak S,Fernandez-Carmona J,Condom R,Cabrol-Bass D

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:4-hydroxybenzoate oligoprenyltransferase of E. coli, encoded in the gene ubiA, is an important key enzyme in the biosynthetic pathway to ubiquinone. It catalyzes the prenylation of 4-hydroxybenzoic acid in position 3 using an oligoprenyl diphosphate as a second substrate. Up to now, no X-ray structure of this oligopre...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Bräuer L,Brandt W,Wessjohann LA

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermotropic polyurethanes with mesogenic groups in side chains were prepared from two diisocyanates and four diols with stoichiometric ratios of reactive isocyanate (NCO) and hydroxy (OH) groups. Their thermal behavior was determined by differential scanning calorimetry. The effect of structure modifications of the d...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Repáková J,Capková P,Studenovský M,Ilavský M

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dirithromycin is a macrolide antibiotic derived from erythromycin A. Dirithromycin is synthesized by the condensation of 9(S)-erythromycylamine with 2-(2-methoxyethoxy)-acetaldehyde. To gain insight into the synthesis, the condensation mechanism has been analyzed computationally by the AM1 method in the gas phase. Fir...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Duran D,Aviyente V,Baysal C

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structures and stabilities of eleven N13+ and N13- isomers have been investigated with second-order Moller-Plesset (MP2) and density functional theory (DFT) methods. Five N13+ isomers and six N13- isomers are all reasonable local minima on their potential energy hypersurfaces. The most stable N13+ cation is struct...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Yin PG,Li QS

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The geometries, relative stabilities of some 4(7) and 5(6) substituted 2-hydroxybenzimidazole derivatives were calculated with full geometry optimization using AM1 and PM3 in aqueous phase. With the exception of molecules 4, 6 and 7 for all the 4(7) and 5(6) substituted 2-hydroxybenzimidazole derivatives the 3H and ke...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Oğretir C,Yarligan S,Berber H,Arslan T,Topal S

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multicenter overlap integrals appearing in the evaluation of multicenter-multielectron integrals of central and noncentral interaction potentials are calculated using complete orthonormal sets of psi(alpha)-ETOs (alpha=1, 0, -1, -2,...). The final results are expressed in terms of two-center overlap integrals between ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Guseinov I,Aydin R,Mamedov B

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformational analysis of polynorbornene (PNB) chains was investigated with the AM1, MM2, AMBER and OPLS methods taking into consideration the possibility of binding of norbornene monomers to each other at various positions, i.e. exo-exo, exo-endo, endo-endo. The chain that is formed by connecting exo-endo positi...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Yilmaz SS,Abbasoğlu R,Hazer B

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have performed a multivariate logistic regression analysis to establish a statistical correlation between the structural properties of water molecules in the binding site of a free protein crystal structure, with the probability of observing the water molecules in the same location in the crystal structure of the l...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： García-Sosa AT,Mancera RL,Dean PM

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently shown that the anti-HIV activities of reverse transcriptase inhibitors can be related quantitatively to properties of the electrostatic potentials on their molecular surfaces. We now introduce the technique of using only segments of the drug molecules in developing such expressions. If an improved cor...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Brinck T,Jin P,Ma Y,Murray JS,Politzer P

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intercalation process and the structure of montmorillonite intercalated with [rhodamine B]+ cations have been investigated using molecular modeling (molecular mechanics and molecular dynamics simulations), X-ray powder diffraction and IR spectroscopy. The structure of the intercalate depends strongly on the concen...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Pospísil M,Capková P,Weissmannová H,Klika Z,Trchová M,Chmielová M,Weiss Z

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trocarin belongs to group D of prothrombin activators derived from snake venom of Tropidechis carinatus and is a rich non-hepatic source of Xa, the only known hepatic prothrombin activator. The structural and functional similarity with Xa makes trocarin an interesting target for exploring the structure-functional rela...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Venkateswarlu D,Krishnaswamy S,Darden TA,Pedersen LG

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel method for in silico selection of fluckicidal drugs is introduced. Two QSARs that permit us to discriminate between fasciolicide and non-fasciolicide drugs (the first) and to outline some conclusions about the possible mechanism of action of a chemical (the second) are performed. The first model correctly clas...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： González Díaz H,Olazabal E,Castañedo N,Sánchez IH,Morales A,Serrano HS,González J,de Armas RR

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Geometries and energies of formation of bilirubin formed by reduction of biliverdin via three meso carbon sites, the beta, gamma and delta positions, have been calculated using semiempirical methods. It has been shown that gamma-bilirubin with a ridge-tile conformation forms six intramolecular hydrogen bonds and is th...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Zahedi M,Kamalipour M,Safari N

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the three-dimensional structure of the NMDA receptor has not been determined experimentally, indirect computer-assisted molecular modeling techniques appear to be of great usefulness in the characterization of the common pharmacophore of all NMDA receptor noncompetitive antagonists, despite their structural diff...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Elhallaoui M,Laguerre M,Carpy A,Ouazzani FC

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report results of numerical simulations of complex fluids, using a combination of discrete-particle methods. Our molecular modeling repertoire comprises three simulation techniques: molecular dynamics (MD), dissipative particle dynamics (DPD), and the fluid particle model (FPM). This type of model can depict multi-...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Dzwinel W,Yuen DA,Boryczko K

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00