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L I Brodskiĭ

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[GeneBee-NET: An Internet based server for biopolymer structure analysis].

A network server providing biopolymer structure databank retrieval as well as some other biocomputing procedures for Internet users is described. Its basic procedures consist in looking for sequence and 3D homologies (similarities). Found homologies are used for constructing multiple alignment, for predicting RNA and protein secondary structures as well as for constructing phylogenetic trees. Alongside traditional methods of sequence homology retrieval, a "matrix-free" (correlation) method is proposed. A similar procedure is used to locate protein 3D similarities. For novel procedures algorithm ideas and their possible applications are discussed. The service ideology is based on the interaction of server and client programs. The client program (GeneBee for IBM PC) can be used to form queries to the server as well as to manipulate a treatment result. In the absence of the client program the interaction with the server can be in the text mode. The E-mail and WWW addresses for the server are as follows: SERVE/INDY.GENEBEE.MSU.SU and WWW.GENEBEE.MSU.SU.

Amino Acid Sequence↗

[Regulation of thrombocyte stimulating and other activities of thrombin by modulators of the recognition site].

The structural and functional features of thrombin are under discussion: combination of restricted specificity and a central regulatory role in hemostasis. Thrombin specificity is mainly connected with special regions of the enzyme molecule--an additional recognition binding site for high molecular substrates. One can consider the additional site of thrombin as a kind of the allosteric centre changing thrombin-catalyzed functions at binding with modulator. Specific site of substrate (inhibitor or receptor) is used in the role of modulator. A computer search of that modulator was fulfilled by means of the program DOTHELIX. The peptides thymosin I and substance P which have regions similar to those of hirudin were shown to inhibit thrombin activity. The kinetic data point to the noncompetitive type of inhibition. The data on the high reactivity of the thrombin-activated protein C system confirm the idea of protein C to be the first defensive mechanism when thrombin is generated in blood and interacts with thrombomodulin.

Endothelium, Vascular↗