Recent investigations of possible downhill folding of small proteins such as BBL have focused on the thermodynamics of non-two-state, "barrierless" folding/denaturation transitions. Downhill folding is noncooperative and thermodynamically "one-state," a phenomenon underpinned by a unimodal conformational distribution over chain properties such as enthalpy, hydrophobic exposure, and conformation...

nbo analysis, hybrid density functional theory (b3lyp/6-311+g**) and ab initio molecular orbital (hf/6-311+g**) based methods were used to study the anomeric effects (ae), electrostatic interactions, dipole-dipole interactions and steric repulsion effects on the conformational properties of 2-methoxy- (1), 2-methylthio- (2), 2-methylseleno- (3), 2-fluoro- (4), 2-chloro- (5) and 2-bromocyclohexa...

Interest in predicting protein backbone conformational angles has prompted the development of modeling and inference procedures for bivariate angular distributions. We present a Bayesian approach to density estimation for bivariate angular data that uses a Dirichlet process mixture model and a bivariate von Mises distribution. We derive the necessary full conditional distributions to fit the mo...

We discuss possible mechanisms that may impact the order of transition between denaturated and bound DNA states lead to changes in scaling laws govern conformational properties strands. To this end, we re-consider Poland-Scheraga model apply a polymer field theory approach calculate entropic exponents associated with loop distribution. particular variants occur due solution affect self- mutual ...

In the course of catalysis or signaling, large multimodular proteins often undergo conformational changes that reposition the modules with respect to one another. The mechanisms that direct the reorganization of modules in these proteins are of considerable importance, but distinguishing alternate conformations is a challenge. Cobalamin-dependent methionine synthase (MetH) is a 136-kDa multimod...

The complete conformational space of monomeric 1,3-butanediol has been characterized theoretically, and 73 unique stable conformers were found at the MP2/6-311++G(d,p) level. These were classified into nine families whose members share the same heavy atom backbone configurations and differ in the hydrogen atom orientations. The first and third most populated backbone families are governed by th...

Conformational flexibility of cyclen controlled by complexation with Ni( ii ) and Cu( as evidenced structural studies.

for better understanding of conformational stability of the dipeptide model hco—gly—l—leu—nh2,ab initio and dft computations at hf/6-31g(4 6-311++g(d,p) and b3lyp/6-31g(d) levels oftheory were carried out. geometry optimization of the dipeptide within the leucine (leu) side chainangles (x2 ,x2) resulted in three stable conformations as followings: anti-anti, the most stable one,(xi = 180°, x2 =...