Arsenic–nucleotides interactions: an experimental and computational investigation

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (19) ◽  
pp. 6302-6311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Cassone ◽  
Donatella Chillè ◽  
Viviana Mollica Nardo ◽  
Ottavia Giuffrè ◽  
Rosina Celeste Ponterio ◽  
...  

By means of state-of-the-art computational approaches and experiments we characterize the chelation process established by As(iii) with AMP, ADP, and ATP in aqueous solutions.

Author(s):  
Chengxin Zhang ◽  
Wei Zheng ◽  
Xiaoqiang Huang ◽  
Eric W. Bell ◽  
Xiaogen Zhou ◽  
...  

AbstractAs the infection of 2019-nCoV coronavirus is quickly developing into a global pneumonia epidemic, careful analysis of its transmission and cellular mechanisms is sorely needed. In this report, we re-analyzed the computational approaches and findings presented in two recent manuscripts by Ji et al. (https://doi.org/10.1002/jmv.25682) and by Pradhan et al. (https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.30.927871), which concluded that snakes are the intermediate hosts of 2019-nCoV and that the 2019-nCoV spike protein insertions shared a unique similarity to HIV-1. Results from our re-implementation of the analyses, built on larger-scale datasets using state-of-the-art bioinformatics methods and databases, do not support the conclusions proposed by these manuscripts. Based on our analyses and existing data of coronaviruses, we concluded that the intermediate hosts of 2019-nCoV are more likely to be mammals and birds than snakes, and that the “novel insertions” observed in the spike protein are naturally evolved from bat coronaviruses.


2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 6016-6027 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaun T. Mutter ◽  
François Zielinski ◽  
James R. Cheeseman ◽  
Christian Johannessen ◽  
Paul L. A. Popelier ◽  
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Raman optical activity combined with state-of-the-art computational approaches successfully probes the conformational space of two important carbohydrates.


2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 3431-3439 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Puzzarini ◽  
Nicola Tasinato ◽  
Julien Bloino ◽  
Lorenzo Spada ◽  
Vincenzo Barone

A route toward the detection of the methyl-cyclopropenyl cation in space: a spectroscopic characterization by state-of-the-art computational approaches.


2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 2329-2336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Cassone ◽  
Fabio Pietrucci ◽  
Franz Saija ◽  
François Guyot ◽  
A. Marco Saitta

By means of state-of-the-art computational approaches, a new fundamental chemical reaction, involving formaldehyde and methane, has been observed when an electric field is applied to liquid methanol.


Author(s):  
Kemal Oflazer

Morphology is the study of the structure of words and how words are forme3d by combining smaller units of linguistic information called morphemes. Any natural language processing application will need to computationally process the words in a language before any of the more complex processing is done. This is especially a must for morphologically complex languages. After a compact overview of the basic concepts in morphology, this chapter presents the state-of-the-art computational approaches to morphology, concentrating on two-level morphology and cascaded-rules and describing how morphographemics and morphotactics are handled in a finite-state setting. The chapter then summarizes recent approaches to how machine learning techniques are applied in morphological processing.


2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 598-624 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Schwarze

MEUF is a technique for contaminant removal from aqueous solutions, but its efficiency depends on a variety of operational parameters.


Biomolecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 739
Author(s):  
Giulia Paiardi ◽  
Maria Milanesi ◽  
Rebecca C. Wade ◽  
Pasqualina D’Ursi ◽  
Marco Rusnati

Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are linear polysaccharides. In proteoglycans (PGs), they are attached to a core protein. GAGs and PGs can be found as free molecules, associated with the extracellular matrix or expressed on the cell membrane. They play a role in the regulation of a wide array of physiological and pathological processes by binding to different proteins, thus modulating their structure and function, and their concentration and availability in the microenvironment. Unfortunately, the enormous structural diversity of GAGs/PGs has hampered the development of dedicated analytical technologies and experimental models. Similarly, computational approaches (in particular, molecular modeling, docking and dynamics simulations) have not been fully exploited in glycobiology, despite their potential to demystify the complexity of GAGs/PGs at a structural and functional level. Here, we review the state-of-the art of computational approaches to studying GAGs/PGs with the aim of pointing out the “bitter” and “sweet” aspects of this field of research. Furthermore, we attempt to bridge the gap between bioinformatics and glycobiology, which have so far been kept apart by conceptual and technical differences. For this purpose, we provide computational scientists and glycobiologists with the fundamentals of these two fields of research, with the aim of creating opportunities for their combined exploitation, and thereby contributing to a substantial improvement in scientific knowledge.


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