Challenging the Biginelli scaffold to surpass the first line antitubercular drugs: Mycobacterium tuberculosis thymidine monophosphate kinase (TMPK mt ) inhibition activity and molecular modelling studies.
Mai S El-ShoukrofyAmal AttaSalwa FahmyDharmarajan SriramMichael G ShehatIbrahim M LaboutaMona A MahranPublished in: Journal of enzyme inhibition and medicinal chemistry (2024)
New Biginelli adducts were rationalised, via the introduction of selected anti-tubercular (TB) pharmacophores into the dihydropyrimidine (DHPM) ring of deoxythymidine monophosphate (dTMP), the natural substrate of Mycobacterium tuberculosis thymidine monophosphate kinase (TMPK mt ). Repurposing was one of the design rationale strategies for some selected mimics of the designed compounds. The anti-TB activity was screened against the M tb H 37 Rv strain where 11a was superior to ethambutol (EMB), and was 9-fold more potent than pyrazinamide (PZA). Additionally, compounds 11b, 4a, 4b , 13a, 13b and 14a elicited higher anti-TB activity than PZA, showing better safety profiles than EMB against RAW 264.7 cells' growth. The in vitro TMPK mt inhibition assay released compounds 11a, 11b and 13b as the most potent inhibitors. Docking studies presumed the binding modes and molecular dynamics (MD) simulation revealed the dynamic stability of 11a- TMPK mt complex over 100 ns . In silico prediction of the chemo-informatics properties of the most active compounds was conducted.
Keyphrases
- mycobacterium tuberculosis
- molecular dynamics
- pulmonary tuberculosis
- density functional theory
- induced apoptosis
- photodynamic therapy
- clinical trial
- signaling pathway
- protein kinase
- tyrosine kinase
- molecular dynamics simulations
- cell proliferation
- dengue virus
- anti inflammatory
- transcription factor
- electronic health record
- combination therapy
- endoplasmic reticulum stress
- oxidative stress
- locally advanced
- cancer therapy
- deep learning
- rectal cancer
- dna binding
- aedes aegypti