Rational Discovery of GSK3-Beta Modulators Aided by Protein Pocket Prediction and High-Throughput Molecular Docking

Author(s):  
Rafael Dolezal ◽  
Michaela Melikova ◽  
Jakub Mesicek ◽  
Kamil Kuca
Author(s):  
Majid Ali ◽  
Syed Majid Bukhari ◽  
Asma Zaidi ◽  
Farhan A. Khan ◽  
Umer Rashid ◽  
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Background:: Structurally diverse organic compounds and available drugs were screened against urease and carbonic anhydrase II in a formulation acceptable for high-throughput screening. Objective: The study was conducted to find out potential inhibitors of urease and carbonic anhydrase II. Methods:: Quantification of the possible HITs was carried out by determining their IC50 values. Results and Discussion:: of several screened compounds including derivatives of oxadiazole, coumarins, chromane-2, 4- diones and metal complexes of cysteine-omeprazole showed promising inhibitory activities with IC50 ranging from 47 μM to 412 μM against the urease. The interactions of active compounds with active sites of enzymes were investigated through molecular docking studies which revealed that (R)-1-(4-amino-4-(5-(thiophen-2-yl)-1,3,4-oxadiazol-2-yl) butyl) guanidine possessing IC50 of 47 μM, interacts with one of the nickel metal atom of urease besides further interactions as predictable hydrogen bonds with KCX490, Asp633, His492, His407 and His409 along with Ala440 and 636. Bi-ligand metal complexes of 4-aminoantipyrine based Schiff bases showed activation of urease with AC50 ranging from 68 μM to 112 μM. Almost 21 compounds with varying functional groups including pyrimidines, oxadiazoles, imidazoles, hydrazides and tin based compounds were active carbonic anhydrase II inhibitors presenting 98 μM to 390 μM IC50 values. Several N-substituted sulfonamide derivatives were inactive against carbonic anhydrase II. Conclusion:: Among all the screened compounds, highly active inhibitor of carbonic anhydrase II was (4-(3- hydroxyphenyl)-6-phenyl-2-thioxo-1,2,3,4-tetrahydropyrimidin-5-yl)phenyl) methanone with IC50 of 98.0 μM. This particular compound showed metallic interaction with Zn ion of carbonic anhydrase II through hydroxyl group of phenyl ring.


Author(s):  
A. Amala Lourthuraj ◽  
M. Masilamani Selvam ◽  
Bharathi Ravikrishnan ◽  
M. Vinoth ◽  
Waheeta Hopper

Objective: The present research was aimed to understand the molecular docking efficiency of a plant-derived compound cleistanthin-A and a common ingredient in tobacco consumption nicotine with nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR).Methods: The 3-D structure of nAChR was retrieved from the protein data bank (ID 5AFH). Ligand was obtained from the PUBCHEM. The in silico protocol comprised of three steps: high-throughput virtual screening (HTVS), standard preci­sion (SP) and extra precision (XP). The screened molecules were ranked accordingly using glide score. Schrödinger tool was used to perform the docking analysis.Results: The binding efficiency of the nicotine and cleistanthin-A was found to be docked at the cys-cys loop of the receptor. Based upon the glide score and glide energy it can be reported that, nicotine binding can be inhibited by the binding of cleistanthin-A to the nAChR.Conclusion: The docking efficiency of cleistanthin-A was good compared to nicotine towards nAChR. Hence, cleistanthin–A was derived as a better choice as an alternative for nicotine in smoke therapy.


2012 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 907-916 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally R. Ellingson ◽  
Jerome Baudry

Author(s):  
Yu-Chuan Chang ◽  
Yi-An Tung ◽  
Ko-Han Lee ◽  
Ting-Fu Chen ◽  
Yu-Chun Hsiao ◽  
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The outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infections occurring in 2019 is in dire need of finding potential therapeutic agents. In this study, we used molecular docking strategies to repurpose HIV protease inhibitors and nucleotide analogues for COVID-19. The evaluation was made on docking scores calculated by AutoDock Vina and RosettaCommons. Preliminary results suggested that Indinavir and Remdesivir have the best docking scores and the comparison of the docking sites of these two drugs shows a near perfect dock in the overlap region of the protein pocket. However, the active sites inferred from the proteins of SARS coronavirus are not compatible with the docking site of COVID-19, which may give rise to concern in the efficacy of drugs.


2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 232-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavan Rangahanumaiah ◽  
Ravishankar Vittal Rai ◽  
Asma Saqhib ◽  
Lydia Jothi ◽  
Marula Siddha Swamy ◽  
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