Citation
Khairul Ikram, Nur Kusaira and Durrant, Jacob D. and Muchtaridi, M. and Zalaludin, Ayunni Salihah and Purwitasari, Neny and Mohamed, Nornisah and Abdul Rahim, Aisyah Saad and Chan, Kit Lam and Mohd Yahaya, Normi and Abd Rahman, Noorsaadah and Amaro, Rommie E. and A. Wahab, Habibah
(2015)
A virtual screening approach for identifying plants with anti H5N1 neuraminidase activity.
Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 55 (2).
pp. 308-316.
ISSN 1549-9596; ESSN: 1549-960X
Abstract
Recent outbreaks of highly pathogenic and occasional drug-resistant influenza strains have highlighted the need to develop novel anti-influenza therapeutics. Here, we report computational and experimental efforts to identify influenza neuraminidase inhibitors from among the 3000 natural compounds in the Malaysian-Plants Natural-Product (NADI) database. These 3000 compounds were first docked into the neuraminidase active site. The five plants with the largest number of top predicted ligands were selected for experimental evaluation. Twelve specific compounds isolated from these five plants were shown to inhibit neuraminidase, including two compounds with IC50 values less than 92 μM. Furthermore, four of the 12 isolated compounds had also been identified in the top 100 compounds from the virtual screen. Together, these results suggest an effective new approach for identifying bioactive plant species that will further the identification of new pharmacologically active compounds from diverse natural-product resources.
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