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Direct Analysis in Real Time Mass Spectrometry: a Powerful Tool for Fast Analysis

  • Li, Xianjiang;Wang, Xin;Li, Linnan;Bai, Yu;Liu, Huwei
    • Mass Spectrometry Letters
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2015
  • Direct analysis in real time mass spectrometry (DART-MS) is one of the variants of ambient mass spectrometry. The ionization process of DART-MS is in open environment and only takes few seconds, so it is suitable for fast analysis. Actually, since its introduction in 2005, more and more attentions have been drawn to its various applications due to its excellent properties, e.g., fast analysis, and no or less sample preparation, high salt tolerance and so on. This review summarized the promising features of DART-MS, including its ionization mechanism, equipment modification, wide applications, coupling techniques and extraction strategies before analysis.

Development of new agrochemicals by quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) methodology. III. 3D QSAR methodologies and computer-assisted molecular design (CAMD) (정량적인 구조-활성상관 (QSAR) 기법에 의한 새로운 농약의 개발. III. 3D QSAR 기법들과 컴퓨터를 이용한 분자설계(CAMD))

  • Sung, Nack-Do
    • The Korean Journal of Pesticide Science
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 2003
  • Acoording to improvement of HTOS (high throughput organic synthesis) and HTS (high throughput screening) technique, the CoMFA (comparative molecular field analysis), CoMSIA (comparative molecular similarity indeces analysis) and molecular HQSAR (hologram quantitative structure-activity relationship) analysis techniques as methodology of computer assisted molecular design (CAMD) were introduced generally and summarized for some application cases.

An Easy-to-Use Three-Dimensional Molecular Visualization and Analysis Program: POSMOL

  • Lee, Sang-Joo;Chung, Hae-Yong;Kim, Kwang S.
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.25 no.7
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    • pp.1061-1064
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    • 2004
  • Molecular visualization software has the common objective of manipulation and interpretation of data from numerical simulations. They visualize many complicated molecular structures with personal computer and workstation, to help analyze a large quantity of data produced by various computational methods. However, users are often discouraged from using these tools for visualization and analysis due to the difficult and complicated user interface. In this regard, we have developed an easy-to-use three-dimensional molecular visualization and analysis program named POSMOL. This has been developed on the Microsoft Windows platform for the easy and convenient user environment, as a compact program which reads outputs from various computational chemistry software without editing or changing data. The program animates vibration modes which are needed for locating minima and transition states in computational chemistry, draws two and three dimensional (2D and 3D) views of molecular orbitals (including their atomic orbital components and these partial sums) together with molecular systems, measures various geometrical parameters, and edits molecules and molecular structures.

Design and Implementation of Bioluminescence Signal Analysis Tool

  • Jeong, Hye-Jin;Lee, Byeong-Il;Hwang, Hae-Gil;Song, Soo-Min;Min, Jung-Joon;Choi, Heung-Kook
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.9 no.12
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    • pp.1580-1587
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    • 2006
  • The term molecular imaging can be broadly defined as the in vivo characterization and measurement of biologic processes at the cellular and molecular level. Optical imaging that has highly reproducibility and repetition used in molecular imaging research. In the bioluminescence imaging, animals carrying the luciferase gene are imaged with a cooled CCD(Charge-Coupled Device) camera to pick up the small number of photons transmitted through tissues. Molecular imaging analysis will allow us to observe the incipience and progression of the disease. But hardware device for molecular imaging and software for molecular image analysis were dependent on imports. In this paper, we suggest image processing methods and designed software for bioluminescence signal analysis. And we demonstrated high correlation(r=0.99) between our software's photon counts and commercial software's photon counts. ROI function and processing functions were accomplished without error. This study have the importance of the development software for bioluminescence image processing and analysis. And this study built the foundations for creative development of analysis methods. We expected this study lead the development of image technology.

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Informatics for protein identification by tandem mass spectrometry; Focused on two most-widely applied algorithms, Mascot and SEQUEST

  • Sohn, Chang-Ho;Jung, Jin-Woo;Kang, Gum-Yong;Kim, Kwang-Pyo
    • Bioinformatics and Biosystems
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.89-94
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    • 2006
  • Mass spectrometry (MS) is widely applied for high throughput proteomics analysis. When large-scale proteome analysis experiments are performed, it generates massive amount of data. To search these proteomics data against protein databases, fully automated database search algorithms, such as Mascot and SEQUEST are routinely employed. At present, it is critical to reduce false positives and false negatives during such analysis. In this review we have focused on aspects of automated protein identification using tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) spectra and validation of the protein identifications of two most common automated protein identification algorithms Mascot and SEQUEST.

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3D-QSAR of Non-peptidyl Caspase-3 Enzyme Inhibitors Using CoMFA and CoMSIA

  • Lee, Do-Young;Hyun, Kwan-Hoon;Park, Hyung-Yeon;Lee, Kyung- A.;Lee, Bon-Su;Kim, Chan-Kyung
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.273-276
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    • 2006
  • Three dimensional quantitative structure-activity relationship studies for a series of isatin derivatives as a nonpeptidyl caspase-3 enzyme inhibitor were investigated using comparative molecular field analysis (CoMFA) and comparative molecular similarity indices analysis (CoMSIA). The first approach of non-peptidyl small molecules by 3D QSAR may be useful in guiding further development of potent caspase-3 inhibitors.

3D-QSAR Analysis and Molecular Docking of Thiosemicarbazone Analogues as a Potent Tyrosinase Inhibitor

  • Park, Joon-Ho;Sung, Nack-Do
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.32 no.4
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    • pp.1241-1248
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    • 2011
  • Three dimensional quantitative structure-activity relationships (3D-QSARs) between new thiosemicarbazone analogues (1-31) as a substrate molecule and their inhibitory activity against tyrosinase as a receptor were performed and discussed quantitatively using CoMFA (comparative molecular field analysis) and CoMSIA (comparative molecular similarity indices analysis) methods. According to the optimized CoMSIA 2 model obtained from the above procedure, inhibitory activities were mainly dependent upon H-bond acceptor favored field (36.5%) of substrate molecules. The optimized CoMSIA 2 model, with the sensitivity of the perturbation and the prediction, produced by a progressive scrambling analysis was not dependent on chance correlation. From molecular docking studies, it is supposed that the inhibitory activation of the substrate molecules against tyrosinase (PDB code: 1WX2) would not take place via uncompetitive inhibition forming a chelate between copper atoms in the active site of tyrosinase and thiosemicarbazone moieties of the substrate molecules, but via competitive inhibition based on H-bonding.