RESUMEN
With increase in cancer incidences, alternative strategies for disease management are of utmost importance. Carbazole, is a compound that is being studied extensively as an anti-cancer compound. In this work, we aimed to investigate a carbazole derivative against specific cancer types such as breast and colorectal, based on the off-target analyses of carbazole derivative. The present work shortlisted 6 proteins that have an association in both cancer types, and then employed two different molecular docking strategies to examine the binding stability of carbazole derivative: a blind-docking state, where the pockets were undefined and mutation-docking state, where possible mutations were induced within the proteins. The results showed that CDK1 bound best in both states to carbazole derivative, and performed better than an array of positive controls. Molecular dynamic simulations at 100â¯ns further proved its stability, with carbazole derivative-CDK1-blind and mutated complex having RMSD values between 3.2 and 3.6â¯Å, and 2.8-3.2â¯Å respectively. Molecular-mechanics generalized born and surface area solvation disclosed free energy of binding for the complexes as -28.79 ± 3.97â¯kcal/mol and -31.86 ± 5.09â¯kcal/mol respectively, with carbazole derivative bound stably within the binding pocket at every 10â¯ns of the 100â¯ns trajectory. Radial distribution functions showed that the bell curve was well within 6â¯Å, thus showing that carbazole derivative and its atoms do not deviate away from the pocket, suggesting its ability to be used as a good anti-cancer compound against breast and colorectal.