期刊
JOURNAL OF BIOMOLECULAR STRUCTURE & DYNAMICS
卷 37, 期 7, 页码 1783-1799出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2018.1471417
关键词
ADME; e-pharmacophore; molecular docking; molecular dynamics simulation; Plasmodium falciparum lactate dehydrogenase
资金
- UGC-D.S. Kothari postdoctoral fellowship
Development of new antimalarial drugs continues to be of huge importance because of the resistance of malarial parasite towards currently used drugs. Due to the reliance of parasite on glycolysis for energy generation, glycolytic enzymes have played important role as potential targets for the development of new drugs. Plasmodium falciparum lactate dehydrogenase (PfLDH) is a key enzyme for energy generation of malarial parasites and is considered to be a potential antimalarial target. Presently, there are nearly 15 crystal structures bound with inhibitors and substrate that are available in the protein data bank (PDB). In the present work, we attempted to consider multiple crystal structures with bound inhibitors showing affinity in the range of 1.4x10(2)-1.3x10(6)nM efficacy and optimized the pharmacophore based on the energy involved in binding termed as e-pharmacophore mapping. A high throughput virtual screening (HTVS) combined with molecular docking, ADME predictions and molecular dynamics simulation led to the identification of 20 potential compounds which could be further developed as novel inhibitors for PfLDH.
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