Journal
SCIENTIA PHARMACEUTICA
Volume 91, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/scipharm91010007
Keywords
drug likeness; Lipinski's rule; molecular docking; pterocephalus frutescens; chemical profiling; phytochemicals
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Virtual screening of medicinal plants yielded potential lead chemotherapeutic phytochemicals, which have application in drug design. Phytochemical investigation of Pterocephalus frutescens extract revealed three iridoids and four flavonoids. Molecular docking studies showed that Luteolin-7-O-glucoside (5) and Orientin (7) exhibit promising cytotoxic activities at cancer-relevant targets.
Virtual screening of the potential lead chemotherapeutic phytochemicals from medicinal plants has useful application in the field of in-silico modelling and computer-based drug design by orienting and scoring ligands in the active binding site of a target protein. The phytochemical investigation of the Pterocephalus frutescens extract in n-butanol resulted in the isolation and structure elucidation of three iridoids and four flavonoids which were identified as Geniposide (1), Geniposidic acid (2), Nepetanudoside C (3), Isovitexin (4), Luteolin-7-O-glucoside (5) Isoorientin (6) and Orientin (7), respectively. Molecular docking studies were used to compare the binding energies of the isolated phytochemicals at four biological cancer-relevant targets; namely, aromatase, carbonic anhydrase IX, fatty acid synthase, and topoisomerase II-DNA complex. The docking study concluded that the isolated compounds have promising cytotoxic activities, in particular, Luteolin-7-O-glucoside (5) and Orientin (7) which exhibited high binding affinities among the isolated compounds at the active sites of the target enzymes; Aromatase (-8.73 Kcal/mol), and Carbonic anhydrase IX (-8.92 Kcal/mol), respectively, surpassing the corresponding binding scores of the co-crystallized ligands and the reference drugs at these target enzymes. Additionally, among the isolated compounds, Luteolin-7-O-glucoside (5) showed the most outstanding binding affinities at the active sites of the target enzymes; Fatty acid synthase, and Topisomerase II-DNA complex with binding scores of -6.82, and -7.99 Kcal/mol, respectively. Finally, the SwissADME online web tool predicted that most of these compounds possessed acceptable oral bioavailability and drug likeness characteristics.
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