Abstract
Thrombin plays a key role in the regulation of hemostasis and thrombosis. Inhibition of thrombin is therefore an effective therapeutic target to prevent the formation of blood clots and related thromboembolism disorders. Hence, we have developed chemical feature based pharmacophore models of thrombin inhibitors. The best hypothesis, Hypo1, is characterized with two hydrogen bond acceptors (A), one hydrophobic (H) and one ring aromatic (R) feature. Hypo1 was cross validated using several techniques to prove its validity and statistical significance. The well validated model Hypo1 was used as a 3D query to perform virtual screening. The scores obtained from virtual screening were sorted by applying drug-like filters and molecular docking studies. Finally, 4 compounds were obtained as drug-like leads based on scoring functions, binding modes and molecular interactions at the active site. These 4 molecules were further optimized by adding different substitutions in their side chains. When compared to the original database hits, optimized molecules showed high scoring function, good binding modes and molecular interactions. Hence, we suggest that, upon optimization, these four database hits can act as potential virtual leads to design novel thrombin inhibitors. Also, our model could be useful to retrieve the structurally diverse compounds from various databases.
Keywords: Common feature and ligand based pharmacophore, molecular docking, thrombin, thrombosis, virtual screening.
Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening
Title:Pharmacophore Design, Virtual Screening, Molecular Docking and Optimization Approaches to Discover Potent Thrombin Inhibitors
Volume: 16 Issue: 9
Author(s): Chandrasekaran Loganathan, Sugunadevi Sakkiah, Keun Woo Lee, Senthamaraikannan Kabilan and Chandrasekaran Meganathan
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Keywords: Common feature and ligand based pharmacophore, molecular docking, thrombin, thrombosis, virtual screening.
Abstract: Thrombin plays a key role in the regulation of hemostasis and thrombosis. Inhibition of thrombin is therefore an effective therapeutic target to prevent the formation of blood clots and related thromboembolism disorders. Hence, we have developed chemical feature based pharmacophore models of thrombin inhibitors. The best hypothesis, Hypo1, is characterized with two hydrogen bond acceptors (A), one hydrophobic (H) and one ring aromatic (R) feature. Hypo1 was cross validated using several techniques to prove its validity and statistical significance. The well validated model Hypo1 was used as a 3D query to perform virtual screening. The scores obtained from virtual screening were sorted by applying drug-like filters and molecular docking studies. Finally, 4 compounds were obtained as drug-like leads based on scoring functions, binding modes and molecular interactions at the active site. These 4 molecules were further optimized by adding different substitutions in their side chains. When compared to the original database hits, optimized molecules showed high scoring function, good binding modes and molecular interactions. Hence, we suggest that, upon optimization, these four database hits can act as potential virtual leads to design novel thrombin inhibitors. Also, our model could be useful to retrieve the structurally diverse compounds from various databases.
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Loganathan Chandrasekaran, Sakkiah Sugunadevi, Lee Woo Keun, Kabilan Senthamaraikannan and Meganathan Chandrasekaran, Pharmacophore Design, Virtual Screening, Molecular Docking and Optimization Approaches to Discover Potent Thrombin Inhibitors, Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening 2013; 16 (9) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/13862073113169990007
DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/13862073113169990007 |
Print ISSN 1386-2073 |
Publisher Name Bentham Science Publisher |
Online ISSN 1875-5402 |
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