To confirm the activity of an initial small molecule 'hit compound' from an activity screening, one needs to probe the structure-activity relationships by testing close analogs. The multi-fingerprint browser presented here (http://dcb-reymond23.unibe.ch:8080/MCSS/) enables one to rapidly identify such close analogs among commercially available compounds in the ZINC database (>13 million molecul...

Aim During infection development in the host, Paracoccidioides spp. faces the deprivation of micronutrients, a mechanism called nutritional immunity. This condition induces the remodeling of proteins present in different metabolic pathways. Therefore, we attempted to identify membrane proteins and their regulation by zinc in Paracoccidioides lutzii. Materials & methods Membranes enriched frac...

Ikaros is a member of the Kruppel family of zinc finger DNA-binding proteins. The Ikaros protein contains two separate regions of zinc-finger domains: 4 DNA-binding zinc fingers near the N-terminus and 2 zinc fingers for protein-protein interactions near the C-terminus. Here, we identified the Ikaros gene from 14 vertebrate genomes and found Ikaros existed in all kinds of vertebrate including f...

Inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES) was used to determine the bulk metal elemental composition of 62 modern bronze sculptures cast in Paris in the first half of the twentieth century from the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. As a result, a comprehensive survey of the alloy composition of the sculptures of many promine...

HIV–1 (human immunodeficiency virus type–1) is the pathogenic retrovirus and causative agent of AIDS, When viral RNA is translated into a polypeptide sequence, it is assembled in a long polypeptide chain, which includes several individual proteins namely, reverse transcriptase, protease, integrase, etc. Before these enzymes become functional they have to be cut from polypeptide chain, The dipyr...

Abstract Sperm functions may be influenced by seminal plasma (SP) proteins with affinity to zinc ions. The aim of the study was isolate and characterise zinc-binding (ZnBPs) from stallion SP using proteomic tools. Zinc-binding were isolated eight stallions zinc-affinity chromatography. They analysed in SDS-PAGE system, peptide extracts prepared. Samples ZnBPs injected onto nLC-1000 nanoflow HPL...

Prediction of three-dimensional structure of cathepsins, and molecular dynamics simulations of cathepsin S were studied by interaction with the drug molecule with virtual screening 681,158 compounds from ZINC database. The result of study showed top 1 ranked was obtained with drug molecule ZINC 23215439 reaction with cathepsin S. This demonstrates that the active site of cathepsin S Cys25, His1...

INTRODUCTION Zinc plays an important role in cellular growth, cellular differentiation and metabolism. The results of previous meta-analyses evaluating effect of zinc supplementation on linear growth are inconsistent. We have updated and evaluated the available evidence according to Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) criteria and tried to explain the diff...

Using the digital differential display program of the National Center for Biotechnology Information, we identified a contig of expression sequence tags (ESTs) which were unique to ovary, testis, and egg libraries. The full-length cDNA of this transcript was deduced and further confirmed by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). The cDNA encodes a novel protein of 341 amino ac...