MOLECULAR STRUCTURE OF ANIMAL VIRUSES AND CELLS BY COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS

通过计算分析动物病毒和细胞的分子结构

• 批准号: 6289200
• 负责人: JACOB MAIZEL
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 至
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6289200
• 关键词: Picornaviridae; Retroviridae; computer assisted sequence analysis; computer simulation; computer system design /evaluation; hydropathy; information systems; model design /development; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; nucleic acid sequence; protein folding; protein sequence; receptor binding; structural biology; virus DNA; virus RNA; virus genetics; virus protein

The basis of diseases and of their treatments resides in knowledge and comprehension of the three-dimensional structures of proteins,nucleic acids and other molecules. The availability of atomic-level structures, advances made in understanding their mechanisms, and highly efficient computational methodology that we have developed enables us to investigate binding sites on molecular surfaces of receptors, and to dock a ligand unto a receptor surface, which will be useful in the design of potent inhibitors. We have recently developed and continue to improve highly effective descriptions of molecular surfaces that are successfully and efficiently utilized for docking molecules ranging in sizefrom small drugs to macromolecules. Using our sequence-order independent, computer-vision based methods, interior and surface motifs have been detected and catalogued. Using similar tools, a dataset of protein-protein interfaces was made and utilized for studies of protein associations and their comparison to protein folding. Comparisons of this dataset to a dataset of protein monomers, generated earlier, illustrates the similarities and differences between the types of architectures at interfaces and in single-chain proteins. Theoretical chemical methods are incorporated into the analyses and show that hydrophilic effects are more important than hydrophobic forces in interfaces. An efficient computational algorithm designed for cutting proteins into highly hydrophobic, compact, subdomain modules is used to produce a database of folding units that will provide deeper insights into the architecture of proteins and how they are assembled. RNA structure and function, no less important than that of proteins, is studied using thermodynamics-based algorithms for secondary structure and molecular mechanics and dynamics for three-dimensional predictive modelling. Correlations drawn with experimental data from mutagenesis and NMR show successful agreement in retroviral ribosomal frameshifting. Internal ribosome entry in 5 untranslated regions (5 URT), a hallmark of picornaviruses, correlates with conserved, predicted structural elements. Similar elements are predicted in some 5UTRs of cellular mRNAs. Refinements in predictive methods are continually developed.Z01 BC 08380-15 - computational biology, docking, membrane biology, protein folding, RNA folding, theoretical biology, - Neither Human Subjects nor Human Tissues

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