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Liu Y, Ren X, He L. First-principles study of benzo[a]pyrene-7,8-dione and DNA adducts. J Chem Phys 2021; 154:175102. [PMID: 34241046 DOI: 10.1063/5.0046360] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are widely distributed in environments, and some of them are causative agents of human cancer. Previous studies concluded that benzo[a]pyrene-7,8-dione (BPQ), which is one kind of carcinogenic PAH metabolites, forms covalently bonded adducts with DNA, and the major adduct formed is a deoxyguanosine adduct. In this work, we investigate the interactions between BPQ and DNA molecules via first-principles calculations. We identify six possible DNA adducts with BPQ. In addition to the four adducts forming covalent bonds, there are two adducts bound purely by van der Waals (vdW) interactions. Remarkably, the two vdW-bound adducts have comparable, if not larger, binding energies as the covalent adducts. The results may help us gain more understanding of the interactions between PAH metabolites and DNA.
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- Yue Liu
- CAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, Anhui, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, Anhui, China
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Karami M, Jalali C, Mirzaie S. Combined virtual screening, MMPBSA, molecular docking and dynamics studies against deadly anthrax: An in silico effort to inhibit Bacillus anthracis nucleoside hydrolase. J Theor Biol 2017; 420:180-189. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2017.03.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2016] [Revised: 03/03/2017] [Accepted: 03/10/2017] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Jeon SH, Jin B, Kim SK, Lee HM. Conformations of adducts formed between the genotoxic benzo[a]pyrene-7,8-dione and 2′-deoxycytidine. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2015; 33:2059-68. [DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2014.989407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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John S, Thangapandian S, Lee KW. Potential human cholesterol esterase inhibitor design: benefits from the molecular dynamics simulations and pharmacophore modeling studies. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2012; 29:921-36. [PMID: 22292952 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2012.10507419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Human pancreatic cholesterol esterase (hCEase) is one of the lipases found to involve in the digestion of large and broad spectrum of substrates including triglycerides, phospholipids, cholesteryl esters, etc. The presence of bile salts is found to be very important for the activation of hCEase. Molecular dynamic simulations were performed for the apoform and bile salt complexed form of hCEase using the co-ordinates of two bile salts from bovine CEase. The stability of the systems throughout the simulation time was checked and two representative structures from the highly populated regions were selected using cluster analysis. These two representative structures were used in pharmacophore model generation. The generated pharmacophore models were validated and used in database screening. The screened hits were refined for their drug-like properties based on Lipinski's rule of five and ADMET properties. The drug-like compounds were further refined by molecular docking simulation using GOLD program based on the GOLD fitness score, mode of binding, and molecular interactions with the active site amino acids. Finally, three hits of novel scaffolds were selected as potential leads to be used in novel and potent hCEase inhibitor design. The stability of binding modes and molecular interactions of these final hits were re-assured by molecular dynamics simulations.
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- Shalini John
- Division of Applied Life Science_(BK21 Program), Systems and Synthetic Agrobiotech Center (SSAC) Gyeongsang National University (GNU), 501 Jinju-daero, Gazha-dong, Jinju 660-701, Republic of Korea
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Chen L, Zheng QC, Yu LY, Chu WT, Zhang JL, Xue Q, Zhang HX, Sun CC. Insights into the thermal stabilization and conformational transitions of DNA by hyperthermophile protein Sso7d: molecular dynamics simulations and MM-PBSA analysis. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2012; 30:716-27. [PMID: 22731116 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2012.689702] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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In the assembly of DNA-protein complex, the DNA kinking plays an important role in nucleoprotein structures and gene regulation. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were performed on specific protein-DNA complexes in this study to investigate the stability and structural transitions of DNA depending on temperature. Furthermore, we introduced the molecular mechanics/Poisson-Boltzmann surface area (MM-PBSA) approach to analyze the interactions between DNA and protein in hyperthermophile. Focused on two specific Sso7d-DNA complexes (PDB codes: 1BNZ and 1BF4), we performed MD simulations at four temperatures (300, 360, 420, and 480 K) and MM-PBSA at 300 and 360 K to illustrate detailed information on the changes of DNA. Our results show that Sso7d stabilizes DNA duplex over a certain temperature range and DNA molecules undergo B-like to A-like form transitions in the binary complex with the temperature increasing, which are consistent with the experimental data. Our work will contribute to a better understanding of protein-DNA interaction.
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- Lin Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun, 130023, P.R. China
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Gong Z, Zhao Y, Chen C, Xiao Y. Role of ligand binding in structural organization of add A-riboswitch aptamer: a molecular dynamics simulation. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2012; 29:403-16. [PMID: 21875158 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2011.10507394] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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The specific binding of ligands is the first step of gene expression or translation regulation by riboswitches. However, understanding the mechanism of the specific binding is still difficult because the tertiary structures of the riboswitch aptamers are available almost only for ligand-bound state at present. In this paper we hope to give some insights into this problem through the studies of the role of ligand-aptamer interaction in the structural organization of add A-riboswitch aptamer, based on the crystal structure of the ligand-bound aptamer. We use all-atom molecular dynamics to simulate the behaviors of the aptamer in ligand-bound, free and mutated states by Amber force field. The results show that the correct paring of the ligand adenine with the nucleotide U74 in the binding pocket is crucial to stabilizing the conformations of the ligand-bound aptamer, especially the helix P1 connecting the expression platform. Our results also suggest that both the nucleotide U74 and U51 may be the key sites of the ligand recognition but the former has much higher probability as the initial docking site. This is in agreement with previous experimental results.
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- Zhou Gong
- Biomolecular Physics and Modeling Group, Department of Physics Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, China
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Serikov R, Petyuk V, Vorobijev Y, Koval V, Fedorova O, Vlassov V, Zenkova M. Mechanism of antisense oligonucleotide interaction with natural RNAs. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2011; 29:27-50. [PMID: 21696224 DOI: 10.1080/073911011010524987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Oligonucleotides find several numbers of applications: as diagnostic probes, RT and PCR primers and antisense agents due to their ability of forming specific interactions with complementary nucleotide sequences within nucleic acids. These interactions are strongly affected by accessibility of the target sequence in the RNA structure. In the present work the mechanism of invasion of RNA structure by oligonucleotide was investigated using a model system: yeast tRNA(Phe) and oligonucleotides complementary to the 3'-part of this molecule. Kinetics of interaction of oligonucleotides with in vitro transcript of yeast tRNAPhe was studied using stopped-flow technique with fluorescence quenching detection, 5'-DABCYL labeled oligonucleotide was hybridized with 3'-fluorescein labeled tRNA(Phe). The results evidence for a four-step invasion process of the oligonucleotide-RNA complex formation. The process is initiated by formation of transition complexes with nucleotides in the T-loop and ACCA sequence. This complex formation is followed by RNA unfolding and formation of an extended heteroduplex with the oligonucleotide via strand displacement process. Computer modeling of oligonucleotide-tRNA(Phe) interaction revealed potential factors that could favor transition complexes formation and confirmed the proposed mechanism, showing the oligonucleotide to be a molecular "wedge". Our data evidence that oligonucleotide invasion into structured RNA is initiated by loop-single strand interactions, similar to the initial step of the antisense RNA-RNA interactions. The obtained results can be used for choosing efficient oligonucleotide probes.
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- R Serikov
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine SB RAS, 8 Lavrentiev Ave., 630090 Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
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Mansouri-Torshizi H, Saeidifar M, Divsalar A, Saboury AA. Study on interaction of DNA from calf thymus with 1,10-phenanthrolinehexyldithiocarbamatopalladium(II) nitrate as potential antitumor agent. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2011; 28:805-14. [PMID: 21294591 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2011.10508608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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A novel palladium(II) complex has been synthesized with hexyldithiocarbamate (Hex-dtc) and 1,10-phenanthroline (phen) by the reaction of [Pd(phen)(H(2)O)(2)](NO(3))(2) with sodium salt of hexyldithiocarbamate and a complex of type [Pd(Hex-dtc) (phen)]NO(3) has been obtained. The complex has been characterized by elemental analysis, molar conductance, (1)H NMR, IR and electronic spectroscopic studies. The dithiocarbamate ligand acts in bidentate fashion. This water-soluble complex was screened against chronic myelogenous leukemia cell line, K562, for cytotoxic effects and showed significant antitumor activity much lower than that of cisplatin. The interaction of this complex with calf thymus DNA (ctDNA) was extensively investigated by a variety of spectroscopic techniques. Absorbance titration experiments imply the interaction of 4 Pd(II) complex molecules per 1000 nucleotides on DNA with positive cooperativity in the binding process and the complex denature the DNA at very low concentration (~14.3 µM). Fluorescence titration spectra and fluorescence Scatchard plots suggest that the Pd(II) complex intercalate in DNA. The gel chromatograms obtained from Sephadex G-25 column experiments showed that the binding of metal complex with DNA is so strong that it does not readily break. Furthermore, some thermodynamic and binding parameters found in the process of UV-Visible studies are described. They may provide specificity of the compound with ctDNA.
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- H Mansouri-Torshizi
- Department of Chemistry, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Zahedan, Iran.
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Semighini EP, Resende JA, de Andrade P, Morais PAB, Carvalho I, Taft CA, Silva CHTP. Using computer-aided drug design and medicinal chemistry strategies in the fight against diabetes. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2011; 28:787-96. [PMID: 21294589 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2011.10508606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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The aim of this work is to present a simple, practical and efficient protocol for drug design, in particular Diabetes, which includes selection of the illness, good choice of a target as well as a bioactive ligand and then usage of various computer aided drug design and medicinal chemistry tools to design novel potential drug candidates in different diseases. We have selected the validated target dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPP-IV), whose inhibition contributes to reduce glucose levels in type 2 diabetes patients. The most active inhibitor with complex X-ray structure reported was initially extracted from the BindingDB database. By using molecular modification strategies widely used in medicinal chemistry, besides current state-of-the-art tools in drug design (including flexible docking, virtual screening, molecular interaction fields, molecular dynamics, ADME and toxicity predictions), we have proposed 4 novel potential DPP-IV inhibitors with drug properties for Diabetes control, which have been supported and validated by all the computational tools used herewith.
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- Evandro P Semighini
- Departamento de Ciencias Farmaceuticas, Faculdade de Ciencias Farmaceuticas de Ribeirao Preto, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Av. do Cafe, s/n, Monte Alegre, 14040-903, Ribeirao Preto-SP, Brazil
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Xu X, Su J, Chen W, Wang C. Thermal stability and unfolding pathways of Sso7d and its mutant F31A: insight from molecular dynamics simulation. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2011; 28:717-27. [PMID: 21294584 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2011.10508601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The thermo-stability and unfolding behaviors of a small hyperthermophilic protein Sso7d as well as its single-point mutation F31A are studied by molecular dynamics simulation at temperatures of 300 K, 371 K and 500 K. Simulations at 300 K show that the F31A mutant displays a much larger flexibility than the wild type, which implies that the mutation obviously decreases the protein's stability. In the simulations at 371 K, although larger fluctuations were observed, both of these two maintain their stable conformations. High temperature simulations at 500 K suggest that the unfolding of these two proteins evolves along different pathways. For the wild-type protein, the C-terminal alpha-helix is melted at the early unfolding stage, whereas it is destroyed much later in the unfolding process of the F31A mutant. The results also show that the mutant unfolds much faster than its parent protein. The deeply buried aromatic cluster in the F31A mutant dissociates quickly relative to the wild-type protein at high temperature. Besides, it is found that the triple-stranded antiparallel β-sheet in the wild-type protein plays an important role in maintaining the stability of the entire structure.
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- Xianjin Xu
- College of Life Science and Bioengineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
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Behmard E, Abdolmaleki P, Asadabadi EB, Jahandideh S. Prevalent Mutations of Human Prion Protein: A Molecular Modeling and Molecular Dynamics Study. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2011; 29:379-89. [DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2011.10507392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Zhang AG, Yang HX, Wang KZ. The Effects of Grafting of 2-Pyridyl to [Ru(bpy)2(Hpip)]2+on Acid-Base and DNA-Binding Properties: Experimental and DFT Studies. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2011; 28:955-68. [DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2011.10508621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Zhou ZL, Zhao JH, Liu HL, Wu JW, Liu KT, Chuang CK, Tsai WB, Ho Y. The Possible Structural Models for Polyglutamine Aggregation: A Molecular Dynamics Simulations Study. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2011; 28:743-58. [DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2011.10508603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Olmez EO, Alakent B. Alpha7 Helix Plays an Important Role in the Conformational Stability of PTP1B. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2011; 28:675-93. [DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2011.10508599] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Chakrabarti B, Bairagya HR, Mallik P, Mukhopadhyay BP, Bera AK. An Insight to Conserved Water Molecular Dynamics of Catalytic and Structural Zn+2ions in Matrix Metalloproteinase 13 of Human. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2011; 28:503-16. [DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2011.10508591] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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