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FOOD AND CHEMICAL TOXICOLOGY
卷 147, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2020.111899
关键词
Insecticidal activity; QSAR; Docking; Computational hits
资金
- Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientffico e TecnolOgico-CNPq) [309648/2019-0, 431254/2018-4]
Pesticides are commonly used to control insects and pests, but the overuse can have negative effects, leading to the search for natural alternatives. This study aimed to identify natural products with insecticidal potential against specific pests, utilizing QSAR models and molecular docking to prioritize promising compounds.
Pesticides are used to control and combat insects and pests in the agricultural sector, households, and public health programs. The frequent and disorderly use of these pesticides may lead to variety of undesired effects. Therefore, natural products have many advantages over to synthetic compounds to be used as insecticides. The goal of this study was to find natural products with insecticidal potential against Musca domestica and Mythimna separata. To achieve this goal, we developed predictive QSAR models using MuDRA, PLS, and RF approaches and performed virtual screening of 117 natural products. As a result of QSAR modeling, we formulated the recommendations regarding physico-chemical characteristics for promising compounds active against Musca domestica and Mythimna separata. Homology models were successfully built for both species and molecular docking of QSAR hits vs known insecticides allowed us to prioritize twenty-two compounds against Musca domestica and six against Mythimna separata. Our results suggest that pimarane diterpenes, abietanes diterpenes, dimeric diterpenes and scopadulane diterpenes obtained from aerial parts of species of the genus Calceolaria (Calceolariaceae: Scrophulariaceae) can be considered as potential insecticidal.
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