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SAUDI JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 29, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.sjbs.2022.103389
Keywords
Myristica fragrans (houtt; ); SAR-CoV-2 main protease; SARs-CoV-2 spike-ACE-2; Molecular docking; Molecular Dynamics; Pharmacokinetics
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- Walailak University, Thailand
- Walailak University, Thailand
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This study investigates compounds from the medicinal plant Myristica fragrans as potential drugs for the treatment of COVID-19. Molecular docking and dynamics methods were used to examine the interactions between these compounds and SARS-CoV-2 proteins. The results suggest that these M. fragrans compounds have potential as effective medicines against COVID-19, but further research is needed to evaluate their therapeutic potential.
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), is a new coronavirus strain that was first reported in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. A specific treatment for COVID-19 has yet to be identified. Potential therapeutic targets include SARSCoV-2 main protease (Mpro) and the SARS-CoV-2 spike-ACE2 interaction. Molecular docking, molecular dynamics (MD), solvent screening for the extraction of the specified compounds, and prediction of the drug properties of certain molecules were the methods used in this study to investigate compounds from the medicinal plant Myristica fragrans, which is one of twelve herbs in Prasachandaeng remedy (PSD). ArgusLab, AutoDock Vina, and AutoDock were used to perform docking tasks. The examined ligands were compared with panduratin A as a standard (Kanjanasirirat et al., 2020), which is a promising medicinal plant molecule for the treatment of COVID-19. Molecular docking revealed that malabaricones B and C and licarins A, B and C bound to SARS-CoV-2/ACE2 and SARS-CoV-2 Mpro with low binding energies compared to that of the standard ligand. Furthermore, appropriate solvent usage is important. Acetone was selected by COSMOquick software for compound extraction in this investigation because it can extract large amounts of all five of the abovementioned M. fragrans compounds. Furthermore, the drug-like properties of these compounds were studied utilizing the Lipinski, Veber, and Ghose criteria. The results revealed that these M. fragrans compounds have potential as effective medicines to combat the COVID19 pandemic. However, to assess the therapeutic potential of these ligands, additional research is needed, which will use our findings as a foundation. (c) 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of King Saud University. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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