Comparative study of two antipsychotic drugs binding to human serum albumin: By multispectroscopic and molecular docking methods

Psychiatric disorders are common diseases with a high prevalence. Currently, increasing focus on the treatment of psychiatric disorders has driven the development and investigation of antipsychotic drugs. In this paper, two classical antipsychotic drugs risperidone (RIP) and paliperidone (PIP) were selected as research subjects to explore their action mechanism with biological macromolecule human serum albu-min (HSA). Combined UV spectroscopy and time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy results showed that the quenching of HSA by RIP/PIP was a static process, and this result was further confirmed by temperature-dependent experiments, while hydrogen bonding, electrostatic forces and hydrophobic forces existed in the above process. Furthermore, synchronous fluorescence spectroscopy, three-dimensional fluorescence spectroscopy and circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy experiments demonstrated the effect on HSA before and after the addition of RIP/PIP. Electrochemical experiments results determined that K-a of HSA and RIP/PIP system was 1.52 x 10(4) M-1-2.85 x 10(4) M-1. According to the competition experiments and molecular docking indicating RIP/PIP bound to site I of HSA. Finally, these results provided reliable information for the development of antipsychotic drugs. (c) 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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In this paper, the action mechanism of two classical antipsychotic drugs, risperidone and paliperidone, with human serum albumin was investigated. The results provide reliable information for the development of antipsychotic drugs.