abstract：:Acid-induced structural changes of a mouse IgG2a monoclonal antibody (MN12) as indicated by Jiskoot et al. (Eur. J. Biochem. 201,223-232 (1991)) were studied by measuring the transient electric birefringence of MN12 in aqueous solution and in glycerol-water mixtures at different pH conditions. A multi-exponential anal...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： van Haeringen B,Jiskoot W,van Grondelle R,Bloemendal M

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proton ENDOR has been observed from frozen solutions (ca. 38K degrees) of copper meso-(4-N-tetra-methylpyridyl)porphyrin (CuTMpyP(4)) complexed with Salmon sperm DNA in water and D2O. Lines from exchangeable protons of the DNA bases have been observed in these ENDOR spectra. Analyses of these ENDOR data show that the ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Greiner SP,Kreilick RW,Marzilli LG

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the number of available three dimensional coordinates of proteins increases, it is now recognized that proteins from different families and topologies are constructed from independent motifs. Detection of specific structural motifs within proteins aids in understanding their role and the mechanism of their operatio...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Fischer D,Bachar O,Nussinov R,Wolfson H

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to allow for real dielectric properties of a solvent in calculating of electrostatic characteristics of strongly charged polyions such as DNA in salt solution we consider a simple model of linear dielectric response of a medium. The interactions between charged particles are treated in the framework of self-c...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Lukashin AV,Beglov DB,Frank-Kamenetskii MD

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The SHOM method (Sequencing by Hybridization with Oligonucleotide Matrix) developed in 1988 is a new approach to nucleic acid sequencing by hybridization to an oligonucleotide matrix composed of an array of immobilized oligonucleotides. The original matrix proposed for sequencing by SHOM had to contain at least 65,536...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Pevzner PA,Lysov YuP,Khrapko KR,Belyavsky AV,Florentiev VL,Mirzabekov AD

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformation of a complex of a 41 mer/31 mer DNA fragment and the Klenow fragment of DNA polymerase I of Escherichia coli was studied by scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM). The results shows that near two turns of double helix of this DNA fragment was outside of enzyme while another part containing more than one...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Lu CD,Li MQ,Qui MY,Yao XW,Xu YL,Gu MM,Hu J

更新日期：1991-10-01 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：: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：:We attempt to give an alternate point of view of the analysis by Roterman et al. (J. Biolmol. Struct. Dyn. 7,415 (1989]. In particular, we argue for the use of flexible geometry and explicit inclusion of solvent effects in analyzing phi, psi maps of peptides. ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kollman PA,Dill KA

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 9-aminoacridine-DNA binding curve is analyzed in two ways: with polyelectrolyte effects neglected and with polyelectrolyte effects included. It is found that the analysis which includes polyelectrolyte effects is consistent with the violation of neighbor exclusion displayed by diacridine complexes as observed by A...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Friedman RA,Shahin M,Zuckerbraun S

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the Tetrahymena thermophila rRNA IVS sequence with the aim of obtaining a model of the structure characterized by the bases proximity of the self-reactions sites. The considered sequence kept up those fragments essential for its catalytic activity as demonstrated by deletion mutants. The first step was the ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Benedetti G,Morosetti S

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Triplex and duplex formation of two deoxyribohexadecamers d-A-(G-A)-G (a) and d-C-(T-C)-T (b) have been studied by UV, CD, fluorescence, and proton NMR spectroscopy. Optical studies of a and b at dilute concentrations (microM range) yielded results similar to those seen for polymers of the same sequence, indicating th...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kan LS,Callahan DE,Trapane TL,Miller PS,Ts'o PO,Huang DH

更新日期：1991-04-01 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：:The technique of transient electric birefringence was used to investigate the orientation of agarose solutions in pulsed electric fields. If the agarose was dissolved in deionized water, the sign of the birefringence was positive when the electric field was small, indicating that the agarose molecules were orienting p...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Stellwagen NC,Stellwagen D

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of ligand interacting with native DNA by two types on the parameters of helix-coil transition in homopolymers is considered using the most probable distribution method (Yu.S. Lazurkin et al., Biopolymers 1970). It is shown that at a small relative concentration of ligand the melting enthalpy (delta H) of DN...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Karapetian AT,Vardevanian PO,Tarzikian GA,Frank-Kamenetskii MD

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analysed by various approaches the structure of cloned synthetic sequences in supercoiled plasmids. Individual inserts were formed by d(C-G)n blocks interrupted by the presence of A.T pairs positioned either in phase or out of phase of pur-pyr alternation. Based on the thermodynamic analysis we obtained result...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Vlach J,Sponar J

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 1H NMR relaxation effects produced by paramagnetic Cr(III) complexes on nucleoside 5'-mono- and -triphosphates in D2O solution at pH' = 3 were measured. The paramagnetic probes were [Cr(III)(H2O)6]3+, [Cr(III)(H2O)3(HATP)], [Cr(III)(H2O)3(HCTP)] and [Cr(III)(H2O)3(UTP)-, while the matrix nucleotides (0.1 M) were H...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Cini R,Giorgi G,Laschi F,Rossi C,Marzilli LG

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actinomycin D (ActD) is a DNA-binding antitumor antibiotic that appears to act in vivo by inhibiting RNA polymerase. The mechanism of DNA binding of ActD has attracted much attention because of its strong preference for 5'-dGpdC-3' sequences. Binding is thought to involve intercalation of the tricyclic aromatic phenox...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Rill RL,Marsch GA,Graves DE

更新日期：1989-12-01 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：:The x-ray crystallographic structure of the nucleosome core particle has been determined using 8 A resolution diffraction data. The particle has a mean diameter of 106 A and a maximum thickness of 65 A in the superhelical axis direction. The longest chord through the histone core measures 85 A and is in a non-axial di...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Uberbacher EC,Bunick GJ

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visible and near infrared magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) spectra of heme proteins and enzymes as well as those of a protein-free heme bound to 2-methylimidazole were recorded and compared at 4.2 K in unrelaxed metastable and relaxed equilibrium heme stereochemistry. The relaxed and unrelaxed stereochemistries of a ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Sharonov YuA,Pismensky VF,Yarmola EG

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The coexistence of both A form and B form tracts and formation of an A-B junction in the oligomer d(GGGGGTTTTT).d(AAAAACCCCC) in saturated sodium chloride solution have been detected by Raman spectroscopy. The entire duplex adopts the familiar B-form conformation in aqueous solution at low salt concentrations (0.1M Na...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Wang Y,Thomas GA,Peticolas WL

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analysed S1 sensitivity of SV40 minichromosomes isolated from the nuclei of infected cells at the late stage of infection. We show that a fraction of purified minichromosomes is sensitive towards double-strand cleavage by S1 nuclease. The pattern of specific cleavage reminiscent of that found for subcloned fra...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Nedospasov SA,Shakhov AN,Hirt B

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a comparative analysis of an NMR experiment and molecular and harmonic dynamics simulations of an actinomycin D: d(ATGCAT)2 complex. A comparison of NOE measurements and 1/R6 weighted proton-proton distances confirm the general correctness of the Actinomycin D-DNA model proposed by Sobell. There are, howeve...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Creighton S,Rudolph B,Lybrand T,Singh UC,Shafer R,Brown S,Kollman P,Case DA,Andrea T

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The deoxydinucleoside triphosphate units d-pCpGp and d-pGpCp were subjected to a rigorous theoretical investigation with a view to describing their distinctive conformational characteristics. For each unit 216 probable three-dimensional forms defined by the backbone-base dihedral angles and sugar pucker modes were con...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Ponnuswamy PK,Anukanth A

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monte-Carlo simulation of poly(dA).poly(dT) hydration by 30 water molecules per nucleotide pair has been performed. Two B-family conformations, both with a 36 degrees helical twist but with different minor groove widths, were considered. One conformation is Arnott's standard B form, the other one is specific for poly(...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Poltev VI,Teplukhin AV,Chuprina VP

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tris-intercalation of an acridine trimer into the self-complementary dodecanucleotide d(CTTCGCGCGAAG) has been studied, in solution, by means of 1H and 31P nuclear magnetic resonance. In a first step all the non-exchangeable protons (except H5', H5"), the imino protons and seven of the eleven phosphorus have been assi...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Laugaa P,Delepierre M,Dupraz B,Igolen J,Roques BP

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A general method for generation of base-pairs in a curved DNA structure, for any prescribed values of helical parameters--unit rise (h), unit twist (theta), wedge roll (theta R) and wedge tilt (theta T), propeller twist (theta p) and displacement (D) is described. Its application for generation of uniform as well curv...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Bhattacharya D,Bansal M

更新日期：1988-08-01 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：:We have studied the NaCl-induced condensation of calf thymus chromatin by static light scattering of 90 degrees and shown that the increase in NaCl concentration up to 120-170 mM results in a large increase in scattering intensity of the total chromatin. Histones H1-depleted and trypsinized chromatin preparations do n...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Smirnov IV,Dimitrov SI,Makarov VL

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal-state preferred conformation of the terminally blocked hepta- and octapeptides with the general formula -(Aib)n L-Leu-(Aib)2- (n = 4 and 5, respectively), determined by X-ray diffraction, was found to be a right-handed 3(10)-helix stabilized by five and six consecutive intramolecular NH...O = C H-bonds of ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Bavoso A,Benedetti E,Di Blasio B,Pavone V,Pedone C,Toniolo C,Bonora GM,Formaggio F,Crisman M

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformation of the colicin fragment of E. coli 16S rRNA was probed with various nucleases and with the adenosine-specific reagent diethylpyrocarbonate (DEP). The results confirm the presence of a stable central hairpin in the colicin fragment and a weaker additional secondary structure involving the regions 5' an...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Heus HA,van Knippenberg PH

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to attempt to determine the extent to which the chemical shifts of the nonexchangeable base protons of a DNA helix depend upon the base sequence. We measured the proton NMR spectra of twelve decadeoxynucleotides in order to carry out a "statistical" treatment. In the helices, the chemical shi...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Shindo H,Okhubo S,Matsumoto U,Giessner-Prettre C,Zon G

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family of covalent complexes between oligonucleotides and derivatives of the intercalating agent 9-amino acridine has been synthesized (Asseline, U., Thuong, N.T. and Helene, C. (1983) C.R.Acad. Sci. (Paris) 297 (III), 369-372) and studied (Lancelot, G., Asseline, U., Thuong, N.T., and Helene, C. (1985) Biochemistry...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Cieplak P,Rao SN,Hélène C,Montenay-Garestier T,Kollman PA

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to examine whether chiral metal complexes can be used to discriminate between right- and left-handed DNA conformational states we have studied the enantioselective interactions of Fe(phen)3(2+) and Ru(phen)3(2+) (phen = 1,10-phenanthroline) with poly(dGm5dC) under B- and Z-form conditions. With the inversion-...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Härd T,Hiort C,Nordén B

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assembly origin (AO) region of the tobacco mosaic virus RNA melts in an usually narrow (2.5 degrees C) temperature range. In an 0.01 M phosphate buffer the melting temperature of AO was found to be 41.5 degrees C. This value corresponds to the regions with the most stable secondary/tertiary structure of the whole ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Kelve M,Aruja A,Kooli K,Männik J,Raukas E

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polymorphism exhibited by the mismatched octamer d(m5C-G-m5C-G-T-G-m5C-G), as a function of the temperature, DNA concentration and ionic strength, was investigated by means of NMR spectroscopy. It is shown that this partly self-complementary DNA fragment, under conditions of low DNA concentration (0.4 mM) and low ...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Orbons LP,van der Marel GA,van Boom JH,Altona C

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modelling procedure has been utilized to obtain a preliminary three-dimensional structural model for the bacteriophage IKe DNA binding protein (IKe-DBP) based on the known high resolution X-ray diffraction structure of a functionally related protein (G5BP) from bacteriophage fd. The degree of structural homology obs...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Brayer GD

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A theoretical study is presented of the energetic and structural properties of covalent adducts of benzo[a]pyrene and a DNA fragment. Energy optimisation is performed with the use of minimiser with constraints and an advanced semiempirical energy formula. Three types of adducts are studied: an external complex with th...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： Zakrzewska K,Pullman B

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A useful property of DMSO solvent has been exploited to reveal a new catalytic route for cytidine amino proton exchange, relevant to exchange in the macromolecular state, but hidden in aqueous solution. Additional exchange mechanisms in aqueous monomeric cytidine (and adenosine) are obscured by the formation of a fast...

journal_title：Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics

authors： McConnell B

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00