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J Biomol Struct Dyn ; 41(22): 12586-12598, 2023.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36661370

RESUMEN

Critically infected patients with COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) are prone to develop sepsis-related coagulopathy as a result of a robust immune response. The mechanism underlying the relationship between sepsis and COVID-19 is largely unknown. LMWH (low molecular weight heparin) exhibits both anti-inflammatory and anti-coagulating properties that result in a better prognosis of severely ill patients with COVID-19 co-associated with sepsis-induced coagulopathy or with a higher D-dimer value. Heparin-associated molecular targets and their mechanism of action in sepsis/COVID-19 are not well understood. In this work, we characterize the pharmacological targets, biological functions and therapeutic actions of heparin in sepsis/COVID-19 from the perspective of network pharmacology. A total of 38 potential targets for heparin action against sepsis/COVID-19 and 8 core pharmacological targets were identified, including IL6, KNG1, CXCL8, ALB, VEGFA, F2, IL10 and TNF. Moreover, enrichment analysis showed that heparin could help in treating sepsis/COVID-19 through immunomodulation, inhibition of the inflammatory response, regulation of angiogenesis and antiviral activity. The pharmacological effects of heparin against these targets were further confirmed by molecular docking and simulation analysis, suggesting that heparin exerts effective binding capacity by targeting the essential residues in sepsis/COVID-19. Prospective clinical practice evaluations may consider the use of these key prognostic indicators for the treatment of sepsis/COVID-19.Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma.


Asunto(s)
COVID-19 , Medicamentos Herbarios Chinos , Sepsis , Humanos , Heparina/farmacología , Heparina/uso terapéutico , Heparina de Bajo-Peso-Molecular/farmacología , Heparina de Bajo-Peso-Molecular/uso terapéutico , Farmacología en Red , Simulación del Acoplamiento Molecular , Estudios Prospectivos , Sepsis/tratamiento farmacológico
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J Transl Med ; 20(1): 501, 2022 11 03.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36329495

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BACKGROUND: Previous studies on European (EUR) samples have obtained inconsistent results regarding the genetic correlation between type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and Schizophrenia (SCZ). A large-scale trans-ethnic genetic analysis may provide additional evidence with enhanced power. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to explore the genetic basis for both T2DM and SCZ based on large-scale genetic analyses of genome-wide association study (GWAS) data from both East Asian (EAS) and EUR subjects. METHODS: A range of complementary approaches were employed to cross-validate the genetic correlation between T2DM and SCZ at the whole genome, autosomes (linkage disequilibrium score regression, LDSC), loci (Heritability Estimation from Summary Statistics, HESS), and causal variants (MiXeR and Mendelian randomization, MR) levels. Then, genome-wide and transcriptome-wide cross-trait/ethnic meta-analyses were performed separately to explore the effective shared organs, cells and molecular pathways. RESULTS: A weak genome-wide negative genetic correlation between SCZ and T2DM was found for the EUR (rg = - 0.098, P = 0.009) and EAS (rg =- 0.053 and P = 0.032) populations, which showed no significant difference between the EUR and EAS populations (P = 0.22). After Bonferroni correction, the rg remained significant only in the EUR population. Similar results were obtained from analyses at the levels of autosomes, loci and causal variants. 25 independent variants were firstly identified as being responsible for both SCZ and T2DM. The variants associated with the two disorders were significantly correlated to the gene expression profiles in the brain (P = 1.1E-9) and pituitary gland (P = 1.9E-6). Then, 61 protein-coding and non-coding genes were identified as effective genes in the pituitary gland (P < 9.23E-6) and were enriched in metabolic pathways related to glutathione mediated arsenate detoxification and to D-myo-inositol-trisphosphate. CONCLUSION: Here, we show that a negative genetic correlation exists between SCZ and T2DM at the whole genome, autosome, locus and causal variant levels. We identify pituitary gland as a common effective organ for both diseases, in which non-protein-coding effective genes, such as lncRNAs, may be responsible for the negative genetic correlation. This highlights the importance of molecular metabolism and neuroendocrine modulation in the pituitary gland, which may be responsible for the initiation of T2DM in SCZ patients.


Asunto(s)
Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 2 , Esquizofrenia , Humanos , Esquizofrenia/genética , Estudio de Asociación del Genoma Completo/métodos , Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 2/genética , Etnicidad/genética , Hipófisis , Polimorfismo de Nucleótido Simple/genética , Predisposición Genética a la Enfermedad
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Food Chem ; 372: 131317, 2022 Mar 15.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34818738

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Pectinases hydrolyze pectin and make up 25% of global food processing enzyme sales. In this study, we aimed to purify exo-polygalacturonase (Exo-PG) by using galacturonic acid conjugated magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) and examined its application in juice purification. The submerged fermentation was carried out in the presence of apple pectin (1%) to promote production of exo-PG from Aspergillus flavus. Maximum exo-PG activity was observed after 4 days (30 °C and pH 5.0). A single protein band (66 kDa) of purified exo-PG was observed in SDS-PAGE. Purification of exo-PG enzyme was âˆ¼ 10 fold with a yield of 29%. The enzyme retained 98% activity in the presence of 15 % glycerol at 4 °C. The purified exo-PG using MNPs yielded a 10-12% increase in juice production as compare to without treated fruit juice. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of affinity purification of exo-PG enzyme, using engineered magnetic nanoparticles.


Asunto(s)
Nanopartículas de Magnetita , Poligalacturonasa , Aspergillus flavus/genética , Ácidos Hexurónicos , Pectinas , Poligalacturonasa/genética
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Comput Biol Med ; 138: 104929, 2021 11.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34655900

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Cholera is a severe small intestine bacterial disease caused by consumption of water and food contaminated with Vibrio cholera. The disease causes watery diarrhea leading to severe dehydration and even death if left untreated. In the past few decades, V. cholerae has emerged as multidrug-resistant enteric pathogen due to its rapid ability to adapt in detrimental environmental conditions. This research study aimed to design inhibitors of a master virulence gene expression regulator, HapR. HapR is critical in regulating the expression of several set of V. cholera virulence genes, quorum-sensing circuits and biofilm formation. A blind docking strategy was employed to infer the natural binding tendency of diverse phytochemicals extracted from medicinal plants by exposing the whole HapR structure to the screening library. Scoring function criteria was applied to prioritize molecules with strong binding affinity (binding energy < -11 kcal/mol) and as such two compounds: Strychnogucine A and Galluflavanone were filtered. Both the compounds were found favourably binding to the conserved dimerization interface of HapR. One rare binding conformation of Strychnogucine A was noticed docked at the elongated cavity formed by α1, α4 and α6 (binding energy of -12.5 kcal/mol). The binding stability of both top leads at dimer interface and elongated cavity was further estimated using long run of molecular dynamics simulations, followed by MMGB/PBSA binding free energy calculations to define the dominance of different binding energies. In a nutshell, this study presents computational evidence on antibacterial potential of phytochemicals capable of directly targeting bacterial virulence and highlight their great capacity to be utilized in the future experimental studies to stop the evolution of antibiotic resistance evolution.


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Vibrio cholerae , Proteínas Bacterianas/genética , Proteínas Bacterianas/metabolismo , Regulación Bacteriana de la Expresión Génica , Fitoquímicos , Percepción de Quorum , Vibrio cholerae/genética , Vibrio cholerae/metabolismo
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IEEE/ACM Trans Comput Biol Bioinform ; 18(4): 1290-1298, 2021.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34081583

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An outbreak of COVID-19 that began in late 2019 was caused by a novel coronavirus(SARS-CoV-2). It has become a global pandemic. As of June 9, 2020, it has infected nearly 7 million people and killed more than 400,000, but there is no specific drug. Therefore, there is an urgent need to find or develop more drugs to suppress the virus. Here, we propose a new nonlinear end-to-end model called LUNAR. It uses graph convolutional neural networks to automatically learn the neighborhood information of complex heterogeneous relational networks and combines the attention mechanism to reflect the importance of the sum of different types of neighborhood information to obtain the representation characteristics of each node. Finally, through the topology reconstruction process, the feature representations of drugs and targets are forcibly extracted to match the observed network as much as possible. Through this reconstruction process, we obtain the strength of the relationship between different nodes and predict drug candidates that may affect the treatment of COVID-19 based on the known targets of COVID-19. These selected candidate drugs can be used as a reference for experimental scientists and accelerate the speed of drug development. LUNAR can well integrate various topological structure information in heterogeneous networks, and skillfully combine attention mechanisms to reflect the importance of neighborhood information of different types of nodes, improving the interpretability of the model. The area under the curve(AUC) of the model is 0.949 and the accurate recall curve (AUPR) is 0.866 using 10-fold cross-validation. These two performance indexes show that the model has superior predictive performance. Besides, some of the drugs screened out by our model have appeared in some clinical studies to further illustrate the effectiveness of the model.


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Antivirales/farmacología , Tratamiento Farmacológico de COVID-19 , COVID-19/virología , Evaluación Preclínica de Medicamentos/métodos , Redes Neurales de la Computación , SARS-CoV-2/efectos de los fármacos , COVID-19/epidemiología , Biología Computacional , Bases de Datos Farmacéuticas/estadística & datos numéricos , Desarrollo de Medicamentos/métodos , Desarrollo de Medicamentos/estadística & datos numéricos , Evaluación Preclínica de Medicamentos/estadística & datos numéricos , Reposicionamiento de Medicamentos/métodos , Reposicionamiento de Medicamentos/estadística & datos numéricos , Interacciones Microbiota-Huesped/efectos de los fármacos , Humanos , Dinámicas no Lineales , Pandemias
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Plants (Basel) ; 10(3)2021 Mar 01.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33804446

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Phaeanthus ophthalmicus (Roxb. ex G.Don) J.Sinclair (previously known as P. ebracteolatus (Presl) Merr) is a Philippine medicinal plant occurring as evergreen shrub in the lowland forests of Luzon islands. It is used traditionally by Filipinos to treat bacterial conjunctivitis, ulcer and wound infections. Based on previous investigations where cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) functions as immune-linked factor in infectious sensitivities to bacterial pathogens by triggering pro-inflammatory immune-associated reactions, we investigated the antimicrobial and COX inhibitory activities of the extracts and tetrahydrobisbenzylisoquinoline alkaloids of P. ophthalmicus in vitro and in silico to validate its ethnomedicinal uses. Thus, the dichloromethane-methanol (DCM-MeOH) crude extract and alkaloid extracts exhibiting antibacterial activities against drug-resistant bacterial strains such as methicillin-resistance Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE), Klebsiella pneumoniae + CRE and Pseudomonas aeruginosa + MBL afforded (+)-tetrandrine (1) and (+)-limacusine (2) as the major biologically active tetrahydrobisbenzylisoquinoline alkaloidal constituents after purification. Both tetrahydrobisbenzylisoquinoline alkaloids 1 and 2 showed broad spectrum antibacterial activity with strongest inhibition against the Gram-negative bacteria MßL-Pseudomonas aeruginosa Klebsiella pneumoniae + CRE. Interestingly, the alkaloid limacusine (2) showed selective inhibition against ovine COX-2 in vitro. These results were ascertained by molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulation experiments where alkaloid 2 showed strong affinity in the catalytic sites of Gram-negative bacterial enzymes P. aeruginosa elastase and K. pneumoniae KPC-2 carbapenemase (enzymes involved in infectivity mechanisms), and of ovine COX-2. Overall, our study provides credence on the ethnomedicinal use of the Philippine medicinal plant P. ophthalmicus as traditional plant-based adjuvant to treat bacterial conjunctivitis and other related infections. The antibacterial activities and selective COX-2 inhibition observed for limacusine (2) point to its role as the biologically active constituent of P. ophthalmicus. A limited number of drugs with COX-2 inhibitory properties like celecoxib also confer antibacterial activity. Thus, tetrahydrobisbenzyl alkaloids, especially 2, are promising pharmaceutical inspirations for developing treatments of bacterial/inflammation-related infections.

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Interdiscip Sci ; 12(3): 335-348, 2020 Sep.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32617855

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Most recently, an outbreak of severe pneumonia caused by the infection of SARS-CoV-2, a novel coronavirus first identified in Wuhan, China, imposes serious threats to public health. Upon infecting host cells, coronaviruses assemble a multi-subunit RNA-synthesis complex of viral non-structural proteins (nsp) responsible for the replication and transcription of the viral genome. Therefore, the role and inhibition of nsp12 are indispensable. A cryo-EM structure of RdRp from SARs-CoV-2 was used to identify novel drugs from Northern South African medicinal compounds database (NANPDB) by using computational virtual screening and molecular docking approaches. Considering Remdesivir as the control, 42 compounds were shortlisted to have docking score better than Remdesivir. The top 5 hits were validated by using molecular dynamics simulation approach and free energy calculations possess strong inhibitory properties than the Remdesivir. Thus, this study paved a way for designing novel drugs by decoding the architecture of an important enzyme and its inhibition with compounds from natural resources. This disclosing of necessary knowledge regarding the screening and the identification of top hits could help to design effective therapeutic candidates against the coronaviruses and design robust preventive measurements.


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Antivirales/farmacología , Betacoronavirus/efectos de los fármacos , Betacoronavirus/enzimología , Productos Biológicos/farmacología , Infecciones por Coronavirus/virología , Neumonía Viral/virología , ARN Polimerasa Dependiente del ARN/antagonistas & inhibidores , Proteínas no Estructurales Virales/antagonistas & inhibidores , Adenosina Monofosfato/análogos & derivados , Adenosina Monofosfato/química , Adenosina Monofosfato/farmacología , Alanina/análogos & derivados , Alanina/química , Alanina/farmacología , Antivirales/química , Betacoronavirus/genética , Productos Biológicos/química , COVID-19 , Dominio Catalítico/genética , Simulación por Computador , Infecciones por Coronavirus/epidemiología , ARN Polimerasa Dependiente de ARN de Coronavirus , Bases de Datos Farmacéuticas , Evaluación Preclínica de Medicamentos , Genoma Viral , Interacciones Microbiota-Huesped/efectos de los fármacos , Humanos , Ligandos , Simulación del Acoplamiento Molecular , Pandemias , Filogenia , Neumonía Viral/epidemiología , ARN Polimerasa Dependiente del ARN/química , ARN Polimerasa Dependiente del ARN/genética , SARS-CoV-2 , Proteínas no Estructurales Virales/química , Proteínas no Estructurales Virales/genética
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Int J Biol Macromol ; 144: 53-66, 2020 Feb 01.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31838071

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Phospholipase A2 (PLA2) is the main constituent of snake venom. PLA2 enzymes catalyze the Ca2+ dependent hydrolysis of 2-acyl ester bonds of 3-sn-phospholipids, releasing fatty acids and lysophospholipids. Inside the body of the victim, PLA2 from snake venom induces either direct or indirect pathophysiological effects, including anticoagulant, inflammatory, neurotoxic, cardiotoxic, edematogenic, and myotoxic activities. Therefore, there is a need to find the potential inhibitors against PLA2 responsible for snakebite. In this study, we employed in silico and in vitro methods to identify the potential inhibitor against PLA2. Virtual screening and molecular docking studies were performed to find potent inhibitor against PLA2 using Traditional Chinese Medicine Database (TCM). Based on these studies, Scutellarin (TCM3290) was selected and calculated by density functional theory calculation at B3LYP/6-31G**++ level to explore the stereo-electronic features of the molecule. Further, molecular docking and DFT of Minocycline was carried out. Quantum polarized ligand docking was performed to optimize the geometry of the protein-ligand complexes. The protein-ligand complexes were subjected to molecular dynamics simulation and binding free energy calculations. The residence time of a protein-ligand complex is a critical parameter affecting natural influences in vitro. It is nonetheless a challenging errand to expect, regardless of the accessibility of incredible PC assets and a large variety of computing procedures. In this metadynamics situation, we used the conformational flooding technique to deal with rank inhibitors constructions. The systematic free energy perturbation (FEP) protocol and calculate the energy of both complexes. Finally, the selected compound of TCM3290 was studied in vitro analysis such as inhibition of PLA2 activity, hyaluronidase activity and fibrinogenolytic activity. The TCM3290 had a more binding affinity compare to Minocycline, and interacted with the key residues of TYR63 and GLY31. DFT represented the highest HOMO and LUMO energy of 0.15146 eV. MD simulation with 100 ns proved that an inhibitor binding mode is more stable inside the binding site of PLA2. In vitro analysis shows that TCM3290 significantly neutralized by PLA2. The above observations confirmed that Scutellarin (TCM3290) had a potent snake venom neutralizing capacity and could hypothetically be used for therapeutic drives of snakebite envenomation.


Asunto(s)
Simulación por Computador , Inhibidores de Fosfolipasa A2/farmacología , Fosfolipasas A2/metabolismo , Sitios de Unión , Teoría Funcional de la Densidad , Evaluación Preclínica de Medicamentos , Fibrinógeno/metabolismo , Hialuronoglucosaminidasa/antagonistas & inhibidores , Hialuronoglucosaminidasa/metabolismo , Enlace de Hidrógeno , Ligandos , Minociclina/farmacología , Simulación del Acoplamiento Molecular , Simulación de Dinámica Molecular , Termodinámica , Factores de Tiempo
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J Biomol Struct Dyn ; 38(11): 3327-3341, 2020 Jul.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31422767

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Non-nucleosides reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs), specifically targeting the HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT), play a unique role in anti-AIDS agents due to their high antiviral potency, structural diversity, and low toxicity in antiretroviral combination therapies used to treat HIV. However, due to the emergence of new drug-resistant strains, the development of novel NNRTIs with adequate potency, improved resistance profiles and less toxicity is highly required. In this work, a novel virtual screening strategy combined with structure-based drug design was proposed to discover the potential inhibitors against drug-resistant HIV strains. Seven structure-variant RTs, ranging from the wild type to a hypothetical multi-mutant were regarded as target proteins to perform structure-based virtual screening. Totally 23 small molecules with good binding affinity were identified from the Traditional Chinese Medicine database (TCM) as potential NNRTIs candidates. Among these hits, (+)-Hinokinin has confirmed anti-HIV activity, and some hits are structurally identical with anti-HIV compounds. Almost all these hits are consistent with external experimental results. Molecular simulations analysis revealed that top 2 hits (Pallidisetin A and Pallidisetin B) bind stably and in high affinity to HIV-RT, which are ready to be experimental confirmed. These results suggested that the strategy we proposed is feasible, trustworthy and effective. Our finding might be helpful in the identification of novel NNRTIs against drug-resistant, and also provide a new clue for the discovery of HIV drugs in natural products.Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma.


Asunto(s)
Fármacos Anti-VIH , Transcriptasa Inversa del VIH/antagonistas & inhibidores , VIH-1/efectos de los fármacos , Fármacos Anti-VIH/farmacología , Simulación por Computador , Farmacorresistencia Viral , Inhibidores de la Transcriptasa Inversa/farmacología
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Mar Drugs ; 17(10)2019 Sep 26.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31561525

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Pyrazinamide (PZA) is the only drug for the elimination of latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) isolates. However, due to the increased number of PZA-resistance, the chances of the success of global TB elimination seems to be more prolonged. Recently, marine natural products (MNPs) as an anti-TB agent have received much attention, where some compounds extracted from marine sponge, Haliclona sp. exhibited strong activity under aerobic and hypoxic conditions. In this study, we screened articles from 1994 to 2019 related to marine natural products (MNPs) active against latent MTB isolates. The literature was also mined for the major regulators to map them in the form of a pathway under the dormant stage. Five compounds were found to be more suitable that may be applied as an alternative to PZA for the better management of resistance under latent stage. However, the mechanism of actions behind these compounds is largely unknown. Here, we also applied synthetic biology to analyze the major regulatory pathway under latent TB that might be used for the screening of selective inhibitors among marine natural products (MNPs). We identified key regulators of MTB under latent TB through extensive literature mining and mapped them in the form of regulatory pathway, where SigH is negatively regulated by RshA. PknB, RshA, SigH, and RNA polymerase (RNA-pol) are the major regulators involved in MTB survival under latent stage. Further studies are needed to screen MNPs active against the main regulators of dormant MTB isolates. To reduce the PZA resistance burden, understanding the regulatory pathways may help in selective targets of MNPs from marine natural sources.


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Antituberculosos/uso terapéutico , Productos Biológicos/uso terapéutico , Resistencia a Medicamentos/efectos de los fármacos , Tuberculosis Latente/tratamiento farmacológico , Humanos , Pruebas de Sensibilidad Microbiana/métodos , Mutación/efectos de los fármacos , Mycobacterium tuberculosis/efectos de los fármacos , Pirazinamida/uso terapéutico
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Interdiscip Sci ; 11(2): 247-257, 2019 Jun.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31177377

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INTRODUCTION: GPCR share a common structural feature, i.e., the presence of seven trans-membrane helices having three intracellular and three extracellular loops. The carboxyl terminal is intracellular whereas amino terminal is extracellular. Various conformational changes are observed in structure of GPCR during the binding with ligand, coupling with G protein and interaction with other proteins. In Rhodopsin class of GPCR the basic structure of GPCR is resolved by X-ray crystallography. Ligand acts as an extracellular stimulus for GPCRs to bring physiological changes in organisms. GPR139 has been found to have effective physiological role in primary dopaminergic midbrain neurons and in central nervous system. Recent reports suggested that the ligand of GPR139 protein inhibits the growth of primary dopaminergic midbrain neurons in central nervous system. These discoveries indicated the potential involvement and influence of GPR139 protein in central nervous system METHOD: Therefore, we used multi-approach analysis to investigate the role of GPR139 in the molecular mechanisms of central nervous system. In silico screening was performed to study compound 1 binding with GPR139 protein in their predicted three-dimensional structures. Compound 1 was subjected to molecular dynamics (MD) simulation and stability analysis. RESULTS: The results of MD analysis suggested that the loop region in GPR139 protein structure could affect its binding with drugs. Finally, we cross-validated the predicted compound 1 through systems biology approach. Our results suggested that GPR139 might play an important role in primary dopaminergic midbrain neurons therapy.


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Neuronas Dopaminérgicas/citología , Evaluación Preclínica de Medicamentos , Mesencéfalo/citología , Simulación de Dinámica Molecular , Neuroprotección , Receptores Acoplados a Proteínas G/metabolismo , Bibliotecas de Moléculas Pequeñas/farmacología , Biología de Sistemas , Sitios de Unión , Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 2/metabolismo , Neuronas Dopaminérgicas/efectos de los fármacos , Humanos , Simulación del Acoplamiento Molecular , Neuroprotección/efectos de los fármacos , Enfermedad de Parkinson/metabolismo , Dominios Proteicos , Receptores Acoplados a Proteínas G/química , Transducción de Señal/efectos de los fármacos , Bibliotecas de Moléculas Pequeñas/química , Relación Estructura-Actividad , Factores de Tiempo
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Curr Top Med Chem ; 18(12): 949-964, 2018.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29600765

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Multi-target and combinatorial therapies have been focused for the past several decades. These approaches achieved considerable therapeutic efficacy by modulating the activities of the targets in complex diseases such as HIV-1 infection, cancer and diabetes disease. Most of the diseases cannot be treated efficiently in terms of single gene target, because it involves the cessation of the coordinated function of distinct gene groups. Most of the cellular components work efficiently by interacting with other cellular components and all these interactions together represent interactome. This interconnectivity shows that a defect in a single gene may not be restricted to the gene product itself, but may spread along the network. So, drug development must be based on the network-based perspective of disease mechanisms. Many systematic diseases like neurodegenerative disorders, cancer and cardiovascular cannot be treated efficiently by the single gene target strategy because these diseases involve the complex biological machinery. In clinical trials, many mono-therapies have been found to be less effective. In mono-therapies, the long term treatment, for the systematic diseases make the diseases able to acquired resistance because of the disease nature of the natural evolution of feedback loop and pathway redundancy. Multi-target drugs might be more efficient. Multi-target therapeutics might be less vulnerable because of the inability of the biological system to resist multiple actions. In this study, we will overview the recent advances in the development of methodologies for the identification of drug target interaction and its application in the poly-pharmacology profile of the drug.


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Enfermedades Cardiovasculares/tratamiento farmacológico , Evaluación Preclínica de Medicamentos/métodos , Terapia Molecular Dirigida , Neoplasias/tratamiento farmacológico , Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas/tratamiento farmacológico , Antineoplásicos/química , Antineoplásicos/uso terapéutico , Fármacos Cardiovasculares/química , Fármacos Cardiovasculares/uso terapéutico , Enfermedades Cardiovasculares/genética , Redes Reguladoras de Genes/efectos de los fármacos , Humanos , Neoplasias/genética , Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas/genética , Fármacos Neuroprotectores/química , Fármacos Neuroprotectores/uso terapéutico , Polifarmacología
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Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23818932

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The traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), which has thousands of years of clinical application among China and other Asian countries, is the pioneer of the "multicomponent-multitarget" and network pharmacology. Although there is no doubt of the efficacy, it is difficult to elucidate convincing underlying mechanism of TCM due to its complex composition and unclear pharmacology. The use of ligand-protein networks has been gaining significant value in the history of drug discovery while its application in TCM is still in its early stage. This paper firstly surveys TCM databases for virtual screening that have been greatly expanded in size and data diversity in recent years. On that basis, different screening methods and strategies for identifying active ingredients and targets of TCM are outlined based on the amount of network information available, both on sides of ligand bioactivity and the protein structures. Furthermore, applications of successful in silico target identification attempts are discussed in detail along with experiments in exploring the ligand-protein networks of TCM. Finally, it will be concluded that the prospective application of ligand-protein networks can be used not only to predict protein targets of a small molecule, but also to explore the mode of action of TCM.

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Med Chem ; 5(3): 242-9, 2009 May.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19442214

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To simulate new strategies for designing effective drugs against bird flu, we have carried out extensive studies by using various computer-aided drug design tools. Molecule AG7088 was first docked to the active site of H5N1 avian influenza neuraminidase (PBD code: 2HTY). The results thus obtained were compared with those by docking zanamivir (Relenza) and oseltamivir (Tamiflu) to the same receptor, respectively. It has been found that the compound AG7088 has better binding energy than zanamivir and oseltamivir. Thus, it was adopted as a template to perform the similarity search of 392,698 druggable compounds in order to find the leading candidates for the next step of modeling studies. Nine analogs of AG7088 were singled out through a series of docking studies. Finally, the molecular dynamics simulation technique was utilized to investigate into the binding interactions between the H5N1 receptor and the nine analogs, with a focus on the binding pocket, intermolecular surfaces and hydrogen bonds. This study may be used as a guide for mutagenesis studies for designing new inhibitors against H5N1.


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Antivirales/metabolismo , Diseño de Fármacos , Inhibidores Enzimáticos/metabolismo , Subtipo H5N1 del Virus de la Influenza A/enzimología , Neuraminidasa/metabolismo , Secuencia de Aminoácidos , Antivirales/química , Antivirales/farmacología , Evaluación Preclínica de Medicamentos , Farmacorresistencia Viral , Inhibidores Enzimáticos/química , Inhibidores Enzimáticos/farmacología , Subtipo H5N1 del Virus de la Influenza A/efectos de los fármacos , Ligandos , Modelos Moleculares , Conformación Molecular , Datos de Secuencia Molecular , Neuraminidasa/antagonistas & inhibidores , Neuraminidasa/química , Unión Proteica
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Med Chem ; 5(3): 250-62, 2009 May.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19442215

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Dysfunction in alpha7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR), a member of the Cys-loop ligand-gated ion channel superfamily, is responsible for attentional and cognitive deficits in Alzheimer's disease (AD). To provide useful information for finding drug candidates for the treatment of AD, a study was carried out according to the following procedures. (1) DMXBA, a partial agonist of the alpha7 nAChR, was used as a template molecule. (2) To reduce the number of compounds to be considered, the similarity search and flexible alignment were conducted to exclude those molecules which did not match the template. (3) The molecules thus obtained were docked to alpha7 nAChR. (4) To gain more structural information, the molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were carried out for 9 most favorable agonists obtained by the aforementioned docking studies. (5) By analyzing the hydrogen bond interaction and hydrophobic/hydrophilic interaction, the following seven compounds were singled out as possible drug candidates for AD therapy: gx-50, gx-51, gx-52, gx-180, open3d-99008, open3d-51265, open3d-60247.


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Enfermedad de Alzheimer/tratamiento farmacológico , Enfermedad de Alzheimer/metabolismo , Evaluación Preclínica de Medicamentos , Receptores Nicotínicos/metabolismo , Compuestos de Bencilideno/química , Compuestos de Bencilideno/metabolismo , Compuestos de Bencilideno/farmacología , Compuestos de Bencilideno/uso terapéutico , Sitios de Unión , Diseño de Fármacos , Enlace de Hidrógeno , Modelos Moleculares , Unión Proteica , Piridinas/química , Piridinas/metabolismo , Piridinas/farmacología , Piridinas/uso terapéutico , Receptores Nicotínicos/química , Termodinámica , Receptor Nicotínico de Acetilcolina alfa 7
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Curr Top Med Chem ; 8(18): 1656-65, 2008.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19075772

RESUMEN

Good progress has been made to modernize traditional Chinese medicines by obtaining active components from natural herbs. In this review, some recent works on procuring active components and modernizing traditional Chinese medicines will be covered. In addition, some recent works on drug design using modern drug design tools have been described. With some well defined targets, the traditional Chinese medicine databases have been screened so as to identify those compounds for which the potential as a drug candidate was not known before. Among these studies, two have been selected as examples to be discussed in details. First, new anti-HIV candidates have been detected, namely leucovorin and agaritine derivatives. Subsequently, GTS-21 is proved to be a good candidate for Alzheimer's disease. All these findings may provide useful information for finding effective drug candidates with lower cost.


Asunto(s)
Medicamentos Herbarios Chinos/química , Secuencia de Aminoácidos , Fármacos Anti-VIH/química , Antimaláricos/química , Antioxidantes/química , Diseño de Fármacos , Proteasa del VIH/química , Proteasa del VIH/metabolismo , Medicina Tradicional China , Modelos Moleculares , Datos de Secuencia Molecular , Alineación de Secuencia
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Med Chem ; 3(3): 221-6, 2007 May.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17504192

RESUMEN

Agaritine, or beta-N-[gamma-L(+)-glutamyl]-4-hydroxymethylphenylhydrazine, is a Chinese herbal medicine, known having the antiviral and anticancer function. However, so far no reports whatsoever have been made for its potential as an anti-HIV agent. It was observed by docking experiments for more than 9,000 compounds extracted from various Chinese medicines that the compound agaritine distinguished itself from all the others in binding to the HIV protease with the most favorable free energy. Based on this, a series of derivatives were generated by modifying agaritine. It has been observed thru an extensive docking study that some of agaritine derivatives had markedly stronger binding interaction with the HIV protease than agaritine, suggesting that these derivatives might be good candidates for developing drugs for AIDS therapy.


Asunto(s)
Simulación por Computador , Inhibidores de la Proteasa del VIH/química , Fenilhidrazinas/farmacología , Proteasa del VIH/metabolismo , Humanos , Fenilhidrazinas/química , Unión Proteica , Relación Estructura-Actividad , Termodinámica
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J Theor Biol ; 244(4): 692-702, 2007 Feb 21.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17069857

RESUMEN

Biological transmethylation reaction is a key step in the duplication of virus life cycle, in which S-adenosylmethionine plays as the methyl donor. The product of this reactions, S-adenosylhomocysteine (AdoHcy) inhibits the transmethylation process. AdoHcy is hydrolysed to adenosine and L-homocysteine by the action of S-adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase (SAH). Thus the virus life cycle should be cut off once the action of SAH is inhibited. Our study was focussed on the discovery of potential inhibitor against SAH. We performed a similarity search in Traditional Chinese Medicine Database and retrieved 17 hits with high similarity. After that we virtually docked the 17 compounds as well as the natural substrates to the hydrolase using Autodock 3.0.1 software. Then we discussed about the mechanism of the inhibition reaction, followed by proposing the potential inhibitors by comparing best docked solutions and possible modification for the best inhibitors.


Asunto(s)
Adenosilhomocisteinasa/metabolismo , Adenina/análogos & derivados , Adenina/química , Adenina/metabolismo , Adenosilhomocisteinasa/antagonistas & inhibidores , Sitios de Unión , Catálisis , Bases de Datos Factuales , Inhibidores Enzimáticos/metabolismo , Humanos , Enlace de Hidrógeno , Ligandos , Medicina Tradicional China , Metilación , Modelos Moleculares , Conformación Molecular , Ribosa/metabolismo
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