Local density functional theory (DFT-LDA) has been explored as a tool for obtaining the molecular electrostatic potential V(r), using the code DMol. We have presented and discussed DFT-LDA electrostatic potentials for a representative series of molecules: ethylene, benzene, formamide, cytosine, and 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin. V(r) results obtained with a double numerical plus polarizat...

Neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) is a dominantly inherited disease associated with the central nervous system. The NF2 gene product merlin is a tumor suppressor, and its mutation or inactivation causes this disease. We report here the crystal structure of the merlin FERM domain containing a 22-residue alpha-helical segment. The structure reveals that the merlin FERM domain consists of three subdo...

A unified treatment for the fast and spectrally accurate evaluation of electrostatic potentials with periodic boundary conditions in any or none three spatial dimensions is presented. Ewald decomposition used to split problem into real-space Fourier-space parts, Fast Fourier Transform (FFT)-based Spectral (SE) method accelerate computation latter, yielding total runtime O(N?log(N)) N sources. k...

influence of aluminum, gallium, indium- doping on the boron-nitride nanotubes (bnnts) investigated with density functional theory (dft) and hartreefock (hf) methods. for this purpose, the chemical shift of difference atomic nucleus was studied using the gauge included atomic orbital (giao) approch. in the following, structural parameter values, electrostatic potential, thermodynamic parameters,...

Protein solubility and conformational stability are a result of a balance of interactions both within a protein and between protein and solvent. The electrostatic solvation free energy of oligoglycines, models for the peptide backbone, becomes more favorable with an increasing length, yet longer peptides collapse due to the formation of favorable intrapeptide interactions between CO dipoles, in...

Infection of CD4+ T cells by macrophage-tropic HIV-1 strains involves interaction of viral gp120 with the host cell chemokine receptor CCR5. The principle neutralizing determinant (PND) of the V3-loop of the HIV-1 gp120 was investigated for its interaction with CCR5 by computational modeling methods at atomic resolution and electrostatic calculations to complement experimental findings. The stu...

Measurements of the Casimir force require the elimination of the electrostatic force between the surfaces. However, due to electrostatic patch potentials, the voltage required to minimize the total force may not be sufficient to completely nullify the electrostatic interaction. Thus, these surface potential variations cause an additional force, which can obscure the Casimir force signal. In thi...