Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Laboratory, PG Department of Botany, Berhampur University, Berhampur, Odisha, India.
J Biomol Struct Dyn. 2024 Apr;42(6):2990-3009. doi: 10.1080/07391102.2023.2212798. Epub 2023 May 17.
Dengue fever has been a worldwide concern, with 50-100 million new infections each year mainly due to five different serotypes of the Dengue virus (DENV). Designing a perfect anti-dengue agent that can inhibit all the serotypes by distinguishing antigenic differences is quite difficult. Previous anti-dengue researches have included chemical compounds screening against DENV enzymes. The ongoing analysis is meant for investigation of the plant-based compounds as antagonistic to DENV-2 focusing on the specific NS2B-NS3 target, a trypsin like serine protease that cuts the DENV polyprotein into separate proteins crucial for viral reproduction. Initially, a virtual library of more than 130 phytocompounds was prepared from previously published reports of plants with anti-dengue properties, which were then virtually screened and shortlisted against the WT, H51N and S135A mutant of DENV-2 NS2B-NS3. The three top-most compounds were viewed as Gallocatechin (GAL), Flavokawain-C (FLV), and Isorhamnetin (ISO) showing docking scores of -5.8, -5.7, -5.7 kcal/mol for WT, -7.5, -6.8, -7.6 kcal/mol for the H51N, and -6.9, -6.5, -6.1 kcal/mol for the S135A mutant protease, respectively. 100 ns long MD simulations and MM-GBSA based free energy calculations were performed on the NS2B-NS3 complexes to witness the relative binding affinity of the compounds and favourable molecular interactions network. A comprehensive analysis of the study reveals some promising outcomes with ISO as the topmost compound with favourable pharmacokinetic properties for the WT and mutants (H51N and S135A) as well, suggesting as a novel anti-NS2B-NS3 agent with better adapting characters in both the mutants.Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma.
登革热是一个全球性的问题,每年有 5000 万至 1 亿例新感染病例,主要是由五种不同血清型的登革病毒(DENV)引起的。设计一种能够通过区分抗原差异抑制所有血清型的完美抗登革热药物是相当困难的。以前的抗登革热研究包括针对 DENV 酶的化学化合物筛选。目前的分析旨在研究植物来源的化合物作为抗 DENV-2 的拮抗剂,重点是特定的 NS2B-NS3 靶点,即一种类似于胰蛋白酶的丝氨酸蛋白酶,它将 DENV 多蛋白切割成病毒复制所必需的单独蛋白。最初,根据具有抗登革热特性的植物的先前报道,从超过 130 种植物化合物的虚拟库中制备了虚拟文库,然后对 DENV-2 NS2B-NS3 的 WT、H51N 和 S135A 突变体进行虚拟筛选和入围。排名前三的化合物是没食子儿茶素(GAL)、 flavokawain-C(FLV)和异鼠李素(ISO),它们与 WT 的对接评分分别为-5.8、-5.7 和-5.7 kcal/mol,与 H51N 的对接评分分别为-7.5、-6.8 和-7.6 kcal/mol,与 S135A 突变体蛋白酶的对接评分分别为-6.9、-6.5 和-6.1 kcal/mol。对 NS2B-NS3 复合物进行了 100 ns 长的 MD 模拟和基于 MM-GBSA 的自由能计算,以观察化合物的相对结合亲和力和有利的分子相互作用网络。对该研究的综合分析表明,ISO 是最有前途的化合物,对 WT 和突变体(H51N 和 S135A)都具有良好的药代动力学特性,这表明它是一种新的抗 NS2B-NS3 药物,在两种突变体中都具有更好的适应特性。由 Ramaswamy H. Sarma 传达。
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