Revarthak Biopharma Pvt. Ltd., Mulkhed Road, Ghotawade, Pune, 412115, Maharashtra, India.
Department of Chemistry, Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University, Panchanan Nagar, Cooch Behar, 736101, West Bengal, India.
Daru. 2022 Jun;30(1):139-152. doi: 10.1007/s40199-022-00441-z. Epub 2022 May 4.
Vortioxetine an anti-depressant FDA-drug recently reported showing better in vitro efficacy against SARS-CoV-2.
In this study, we have synthesized ten new derivatives having alkenes, alkynes, benzyl, aryl, and mixed carbamate at the N-terminal of vortioxetine. Then the binding energy and interactions with the crucial amino acid residues in the binding pocket of main protease (M) of SARS-CoV-2, of reported and ten newly synthesized vortioxetine derivatives (total thirty-one) in comparison with remdesivir are analyzed and presented in this paper.
Based on the docking scores predicted by ADV and AD, most vortioxetine derivatives showed better binding efficiency towards M of SARS-CoV-2 in comparison with remdesivir (an EUA approved drug against SARS-CoV-2 M) and vortioxetine.
This study shows that some vortioxetine derivatives can be developed into promising drugs for COVID-19 treatment.
文拉法辛是一种抗抑郁药,最近有报道称其在体外对 SARS-CoV-2 具有更好的疗效。
在这项研究中,我们合成了十个具有烯烃、炔烃、苄基、芳基和混合氨基甲酸酯的文拉法辛衍生物。然后,我们分析了报告的和十个新合成的文拉法辛衍生物(总共三十一个)与瑞德西韦与 SARS-CoV-2 主要蛋白酶(M)结合口袋中关键氨基酸残基的结合能和相互作用,并在本文中进行了阐述。
根据 ADV 和 AD 预测的对接分数,与瑞德西韦(一种获得 EUA 批准用于治疗 SARS-CoV-2 M 的药物)和文拉法辛相比,大多数文拉法辛衍生物对 SARS-CoV-2 M 的结合效率更高。
这项研究表明,一些文拉法辛衍生物可以开发成治疗 COVID-19 的有前途的药物。