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ArticleViruses2023

Investigating the Mechanism of Action of Anti-Dengue Compounds as Potential Binders of Zika Virus RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase.

Thamir A Alandijany, Mai M El-Daly, Ahmed M Tolah, Leena H Bajrai, Aiah M Khateb, Isra M Alsaady, Sarah A Altwaim, Amit Dubey, Vivek Dhar Dwivedi, Esam I Azhar

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Article in Viruses, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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4.9field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Thamir A AlandijanySpecial Infectious Agents Unit-BSL3, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21362, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-9130-4031
Mai M El-DalySpecial Infectious Agents Unit-BSL3, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21362, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-3864-523X
Ahmed M TolahSpecial Infectious Agents Unit-BSL3, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21362, Saudi Arabia.
Leena H BajraiSpecial Infectious Agents Unit-BSL3, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21362, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-6889-0730
Aiah M KhatebSpecial Infectious Agents Unit-BSL3, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21362, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-7806-8748
Isra M AlsaadySpecial Infectious Agents Unit-BSL3, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21362, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0003-0676-8857
Sarah A AltwaimSpecial Infectious Agents Unit-BSL3, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21362, Saudi Arabia.
Amit DubeyComputational Chemistry & Drug Discovery Division, Quanta Calculus, Greater Noida 201310, India.
Vivek Dhar DwivediBioinformatics Research Division, Quanta Calculus, Greater Noida 201310, India.ORCID 0000-0003-0767-1328
Esam I AzharSpecial Infectious Agents Unit-BSL3, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21362, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-1736-181X
King Abdulaziz University · SA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The World Health Organization (WHO) has designated the Zika virus (ZIKV) as a significant risk to the general public's health. Currently, there are no vaccinations or medications available to treat or prevent infection with the Zika virus. Thus, it is urgently required to develop a highly efficient therapeutic molecule. In the presented study, a computationally intensive search was carried out to identify potent compounds that have the potential to bind and block the activity of ZIKV NS5 RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp). The anti-dengue chemical library was subjected to high-throughput virtual screening and MM/GBSA analysis in order to rate the potential candidates. The top three compounds were then chosen. According to the MM/GBSA analysis, compound 127042987 from the database had the highest binding affinity to the protein with a minimum binding free energy of -77.16 kcal/mole. Compound 127042987 had the most stable RMSD trend and the greatest number of hydrogen bond interactions when these chemical complexes were evaluated further under a 100 ns molecular dynamics simulation. Compound 127042987 displayed the best binding free energy (GBind) of -96.50 kcal/mol, surpassing the native ligand binding energy (-66.17 kcal/mole). Thereafter, an MM/GBSA binding free energy study was conducted to validate the stability of selected chemical complexes. Overall, this study illustrated that compound 127042987 showed preferred binding free energies, suggesting a possible inhibitory mechanism against ZIKV-RdRp. As per this study, it was proposed that compound 127042987 could be used as a therapeutic option to prevent Zika virus infection. These compounds need to be tested in experiments for further validation.

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Zika VirusZika Virus InfectionAntiviral AgentsHumansMolecular Docking SimulationMolecular Dynamics SimulationRNA-Dependent RNA PolymeraseAntiviral AgentsRNA-Dependent RNA PolymeraseMM/GBSAmolecular dockingmolecular dynamics simulationRNA-dependent RNA polymeraseZika virus

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PMID37515188
PMCPMC10384299
OpenAlexW4383262376

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