The recent study on binding of small molecules to double stranded DNA suggested that the intercalation of a tricyclic heteroaromatic molecule, thionine, with natural DNA provided thermal stabilization to the complex. In the present study, we reported theoretical analysis of thionine binding with Clostridium perfringenes DNA duplex (CP-DNA) by using an amended Zimm and Bragg theory, to explain t...

We present, to our knowledge, the first quantitative analysis of functional site diversity in homologous domain superfamilies. Different types of functional sites are considered separately. Our results show that most diverse superfamilies are very plastic in terms of the spatial location of their functional sites. This is especially true for protein-protein interfaces. In contrast, we confirm t...

We demonstrate that our tight-binding method { which is based on tting the energy bands and the total energy of rst-principles calculations as a function of volume { can be easily extended to accurately describe carbon and silicon. We present equations of state that give the correct energy ordering between structures. We also show that quantities that were not tted, such as elastic constants an...

A new series of 1,2-diaryl-4,5,6,7-tetrahydro-1H-benzo[d]imidazoles, possessing trimethoxy phenyl pharmacophore, were synthesized to evaluate their biological activities as tubulin inhibitors. Cytotoxic activity of the synthesized compounds 7a-f was assessed against several human cancer cell lines, including MCF-7 (breast cancer cell), HEPG2 (liver hepatocellular cells), A549 (adenocarcinomic h...

1 Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Regensburg, D-93040 Regensburg, Germany [email protected] 2 Departamento de Fisica de Materiales, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, E-28040 Madrid, Spain [email protected] 3 Dpto. Matemática Aplicada y Estad́ıstica, EUIT. Aeronáutics U.P.M., PZA Cardenal Cisneros s/n, Madrid 28040, Spain [email protected] 4 Department of Phy...