Exploring Secondary Metabolites Database of Apocynaceae, Menispermaceae, and Annonaceae to Select Potential Anti-HCV Compounds.


Journal

Current topics in medicinal chemistry
ISSN: 1873-4294
Titre abrégé: Curr Top Med Chem
Pays: United Arab Emirates
ID NLM: 101119673

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2019
Historique:
received: 14 11 2018
revised: 27 03 2019
accepted: 27 03 2019
pubmed: 11 5 2019
medline: 10 9 2019
entrez: 11 5 2019
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Hepatitis C is a disease that constitutes a serious global health problem, is often asymptomatic and difficult to diagnose and about 60-80% of infected patients develop chronic diseases over time. As there is no vaccine against hepatitis C virus (HCV), developing new cheap treatments is a big challenge. The search for new drugs from natural products has been outstanding in recent years. The aim of this study was to combine structure-based and ligand-based virtual screening (VS) techniques to select potentially active molecules against four HCV target proteins from in-house secondary metabolite dataset (SistematX). From the ChEMBL database, we selected four sets of 1199, 355, 290 and 237chemical structures with inhibitory activity against different targets of HCV to create random forest models with an accuracy value higher than 82% for cross-validation and test sets. Afterward, a ligandbased virtual screen of the entire 1848 secondary metabolites database stored in SistematX was performed. In addition, a structure-based virtual screening was also performed for the same set of secondary metabolites using molecular docking. Finally, using consensus analyses approach combining ligand-based and structure-based VS, three alkaloids were selected as potential anti-HCV compounds. The selected structures are a starting point for further studies in order to develop new anti- HCV compounds based on natural products.

Sections du résumé

BACKGROUND BACKGROUND
Hepatitis C is a disease that constitutes a serious global health problem, is often asymptomatic and difficult to diagnose and about 60-80% of infected patients develop chronic diseases over time. As there is no vaccine against hepatitis C virus (HCV), developing new cheap treatments is a big challenge.
OBJECTIVE OBJECTIVE
The search for new drugs from natural products has been outstanding in recent years. The aim of this study was to combine structure-based and ligand-based virtual screening (VS) techniques to select potentially active molecules against four HCV target proteins from in-house secondary metabolite dataset (SistematX).
MATERIALS AND METHODS METHODS
From the ChEMBL database, we selected four sets of 1199, 355, 290 and 237chemical structures with inhibitory activity against different targets of HCV to create random forest models with an accuracy value higher than 82% for cross-validation and test sets. Afterward, a ligandbased virtual screen of the entire 1848 secondary metabolites database stored in SistematX was performed. In addition, a structure-based virtual screening was also performed for the same set of secondary metabolites using molecular docking.
RESULTS RESULTS
Finally, using consensus analyses approach combining ligand-based and structure-based VS, three alkaloids were selected as potential anti-HCV compounds.
CONCLUSION CONCLUSIONS
The selected structures are a starting point for further studies in order to develop new anti- HCV compounds based on natural products.

Identifiants

pubmed: 31074368
pii: CTMC-EPUB-98435
doi: 10.2174/1568026619666190510094228
doi:

Substances chimiques

Antiviral Agents 0
Enzyme Inhibitors 0

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

900-913

Informations de copyright

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Auteurs

Renata P C Barros (RPC)

Post-Graduate Program in Natural Synthetic Bioactive Products, Federal University of Paraiba, Joao Pessoa, Brazil.

Luciana Scotti (L)

Post-Graduate Program in Natural Synthetic Bioactive Products, Federal University of Paraiba, Joao Pessoa, Brazil.

Marcus T Scotti (MT)

Post-Graduate Program in Natural Synthetic Bioactive Products, Federal University of Paraiba, Joao Pessoa, Brazil.

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