Identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis enoyl-acyl carrier protein reductase inhibitors: A combined in-silico and in-vitro analysis.
J Mol Graph Model
; 76: 172-180, 2017 09.
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| ID: mdl-28734205
ABSTRACT
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), had developed evolutionary changes in its genome to adapt for survival and thereby generated multi-drug resistant strains. However, novel drug targets that remained unchanged for their biochemical role has impressed the research community to target such proteins. The comprehensive analysis of multiple protein targets has influenced us to make a consensus structural rule exploited by pharmacophore and other allied techniques from a large repository of protein structures. In this pursuit, we made a retrospective analysis of pharmacophores mapped from the tuberculosis structural proteome and identified unique patterns that can be employed for the novel molecules design. The current work on NADH-dependent enoyl-acyl carrier protein reductase (InhA) has yielded top scored pharmacophore models which were searched over SPECS natural product database to prioritize the molecules that can be targeted against Mtb. With efforts on rigorous validation and expertise, we have identified such pharmacophoric patterns from natural compounds that can be used as initial hits. Subsequently, these hits were subjected to in-vitro antitubercular evaluation to ensure the inhibitory activity against the mycobacterium culture growth (MtbH37Rv). Furthermore, docking simulations were carried out to provide an insight on the possible modes of interaction between the experimentally explored compounds and InhA.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Oxidoreductases
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Bacterial Proteins
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Acyl Carrier Protein
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Enzyme Inhibitors
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Type of study:
Diagnostic_studies
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Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Language:
En
Journal:
J Mol Graph Model
Journal subject:
BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR
Year:
2017
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
India