Article
A new role for the nonpathogenic nonsynonymous single-nucleotide polymorphisms of acetylcholinesterase in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease: a computational study.
Journal of computational biology : a journal of computational molecular cell biology - 1 Aug 2014
Saravanaraman Ponne, Chinnadurai Raj Kumar, Boopathy Rathanam
Abstract excerpt
Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are implicated in the complexity of understanding the genetics of diseases and their therapeutics. Here we have attempted to determine the impact of nonsynonymous SNPs (nsSNPs) on structure, dynamics, and ligand-binding properties of the human acetylcholinesterase (hAChE) protein, which has been targeted in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. Of the reported 153 SNPs, 4...
Topics
- Acetylcholinesterase
- Alzheimer Disease
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Cholinesterase Inhibitors
- Humans
- Molecular Docking Simulation
- Molecular Dynamics Simulation
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
