background: mushroom tyrosinase a potent candidate in clinical studies known as polyphenol oxidase, is a metaloenzyme from the oxidase superfamily widely distributed from lower to higher life forms. it plays a crucial role in sclerotization of exoskeleton in insects, also responsible for skin pigmentation in mammalians. objective: in this study, after reconstitution of mt by some metal ions, th...

a thorough recognition of the nature and duties of the genes is based upon having adequate information about the proteins. however, the proteomic projects follow a slow trend; therefore, solving the protein-related problems has become as one of the most important challenges in bio-informatics. consequently, the presence of tools which can enhance the structural recognition, classification, and ...

objective(s) staphylococcus aureus is a foremost source of numerous nosocomial and community acquired infections. antibiotic therapy for vancomycin resistant s. aureus (vrsa) can not promise the eradication of infections. since adhesion is the major route of infections, adhesin based vaccine could suppress s. aureus infections. fibronectin binding protein a (fnbpa) and clumping factor a (clfa) ...

Comparative modeling is becoming an increasingly helpful technique in microbial cell factories as the knowledge of the three-dimensional structure of a protein would be an invaluable aid to solve problems on protein production. For this reason, an introduction to comparative modeling is presented, with special emphasis on the basic concepts, opportunities and challenges of protein structure pre...

protein structural flexibility is important for catalysis, binding, protein design, and allostery. some simple methods have recently been introduced to compute protein flexibility directly from the protein structure without any mechanical models. for example the atomic mean square displacement (or b-factor) is related to the number of neighboring atoms. the protein structure can be modeled as a...

The automatic assignment of protein secondary structure from three dimensional coordinates is an essential step in the characterization of protein structure. <span style="font...

We show that calculating contact map overlap (a measure of similarity of protein structures) is NPhard, but can be solved in polynomial time for several interesting and relevant special cases. We identify an important special case of this problem corresponding to self-avoiding walks, and prove a decomposition theorem and a corollary approximation result for this special case. These are the rst ...