AM1/d parameters are derived for magnesium, optimized for modeling reactions in metalloenzymes. The parameters are optimized with a Monte Carlo procedure so as to reproduce the geometries and energies of a training set calculated with density functional theory. The training set consists of compounds with magnesium coordinated to the oxygen atom of typical biological ligands. Optimization of AM1...

New statistic based models provide a wide area of prediction equipments for different science areas. Among these fields biology have just entered the contest of interdisciplinary sciences. Drug discovery is a long and expensive process which could be decreased with theoretical approaches. In this study, 500 reported assayed anti cancer molecules were extracted from Science Direct articles, sket...

The vibrational frequencies for the fundamental modes and the energies of low lying states of alanine in neutral and its zwitterionic form in gas phase have been calculated at RMP2 ab-initio level. The results so obtained have been compared with earlier theoretical calculations and experimental observations of IR and RAMAN spectrum. In the present study, it has been observed that our results ar...

Paullones, a group of ATP-competitive 7,12-dihydroindolo [3,2-d][1]benzazepin-6(5H)-ones are well-established cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) inhibitors with promising anti-tumoral properties. In this study, AM1 (Austin model 1) calculations have been performed on paullones and their biological activities have been explained with respect to their HOMO and LUMO energies. 9-Substituted paullones wi...

The infrared spectra of benzoic acid and deuterobenzoic acid embedded in Ar matrices were obtained. The only benzoic acid conformer with syn position of O-H and C=O groups was found to fix in the matrices. We have demonstrated that both a raise of benzoic acid concentration and a matrix annealing lead to formation of H-bonded benzoic acid dimers. The results of semiempirical AM1 calculations al...

Some new 2-alkoxy-3-cyano-4,6-diarylpyridines 3,4 were synthesized by condensation of different alpha,beta-unsaturated ketones 1 with malononitrile 2, followed by cyclization in sodium alkoxide/alcohol system. Lewis acid-catalyzed reaction of 4 with hydrazine afforded the corresponding 1H-pyrazolo[3,4-b]pyridines 5. The potency of the results as antimicrobial agents has been evaluated. The stru...

The Sparkle/PM3 model is extended to cerium(III) complexes. The validation procedure was carried out using only high quality crystallographic structures (R factor < 0.05Å), for a total of thirty-seven Ce(III) complexes. The Sparkle/PM3 unsigned mean error, for all interatomic distances between the Ce(III) ion and the directly coordinating oxygen or nitrogen atoms, is 0.080Å, a level of accuracy...

Adrenomedullin (AM), known as a multifunctional hormone in mammals, forms a unique family of five paralogous peptides in teleost fish. To examine their cardiovascular effects using homologous AMs in eels, we isolated cDNAs encoding four eel AMs, and named AM1 (ortholog of mammalian AM), AM2, AM3 (paralog of AM2 generated only in teleost lineage), and AM5 according to the known teleost AM sequen...

Molecular mechanisms that initiate meiosis have been studied in fungi and mammals, but little is known about the mechanisms directing the meiosis transition in other organisms. To elucidate meiosis initiation in plants, we characterized and cloned the ameiotic1 (am1) gene, which affects the transition to meiosis and progression through the early stages of meiotic prophase in maize. We demonstra...