Designing refoldable model molecules.

Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship Studies of 4-Imidazolyl- 1,4-dihydropyridines as Calcium Channel Blockers

Objective(s): The structure- activity relationship of a series of 36 molecules, showing L-type calcium channel blocking was studied using a QSAR (quantitative structure–activity relationship) method. Materials and Methods: Structures were optimized by the semi-empirical AM1 quantum-chemical method which was also used to find structure-calcium channel blocking activity trends. Several types of ...

Insight into "insoluble proteins" with pure water.

Many proteins are not refoldable and also insoluble. Previously no general method was available to solubilize them and consequently their structural properties remained unknown. Surprisingly, we recently discovered that all insoluble proteins in our laboratory, which are highly diverse, can be solubilized in pure water. Structural characterization by CD and NMR led to their classification into ...

Transport of a Liquid Water-Methanol Mixture in a Single Wall Carbon Nanotube

In this work, a molecular dynamics simulation of the transport of water - methanol mixture through the single wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT) is reported. Methanol and water are selected as fluid molecules since water represents a strongly polar molecule while methanol is as an intermediate between polar and strongly polar molecules. Some physical properties of the methanol-water mixture such as r...

Ab Initio Studies of Rotation and Solvent Effects for two important membrane molecules: DPPC and DMPC

DPPC (dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine) and DMPC (dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine) are taken asphospholipids with an equal polar heads and with the difference in the length of hydrocarbonchains. Results obtain from the structural optimization of the isolated DPPC and DMPC in the gasphase, at the Hartree-Fock level of theory by means of STO-3g,3-21G, 6-31G and 6-31G* basissets. the most important d...

Gene Expression Quantification of Toll like Receptors 2, 4 and Co-molecules in Human Glioblastoma Cell Line (U87-MG): Toward a New In vitro Model of Inflammation