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Design, Synthesis and Discovery of Drug Candidates

A special issue of Current Issues in Molecular Biology (ISSN 1467-3045). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Pharmacology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 2487

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Dr. Muhammad Khattab

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Office of Research, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
Interests: medicinal chemistry; pharmaceutical chemistry; physical chemistry; computational chemistry; anticancer drugs
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Dear Colleagues,

For a better understanding of the new era in drug discovery and learning how to be more efficient in treating diseases, defining the mechanism of action of the drugs can make a huge difference. Not only thinking about putting an end to a disease but also to widen the concept of side effects of the drugs. The molecular targets can give us a clue and help us understand better what we are treating. The key roles in therapy of molecular targets can be explored by using chemoinformatics approach. Whereas these targets are not known to us nor to the common databases a chemical information approach to drug-target association can guide therapeutic development and reveal applications to biological activity.

This Special Issue will approach current challenges in mechanism of action, molecular targets and biological activity of drugs based on chemoinformatics.

The submission of original articles, reviews, and hypotheses is welcome. Topics of interest for this issue include, but are not limited to:

  • Medicinal Chemistry and drug discovery
  • UV-Vis Spectroscopy and drug characterization
  • Elucidation of molecular targets using computational chemistry

Dr. Muhammad Khattab
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Keywords

  • Mechanism of Action
  • Molecular Target
  • Biological Activity
  • Biological Evaluation
  • Drug Discovery
  • Molecular modelling
  • Cheminformatics

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Genome-Wide Mining of Selaginella moellendorffii for Hevein-like Lectins and Their Potential Molecular Mimicry with SARS-CoV-2 Spike Glycoprotein
by Ahmed Alsolami, Amina I. Dirar, Emadeldin Hassan E. Konozy, Makarim El-Fadil M. Osman, Mohanad A. Ibrahim, Khalid Farhan Alshammari, Fawwaz Alshammari, Meshari Alazmi and Kamaleldin B. Said
Curr. Issues Mol. Biol. 2023, 45(7), 5879-5901; https://doi.org/10.3390/cimb45070372 - 14 Jul 2023
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Multidisciplinary research efforts on potential COVID-19 vaccine and therapeutic candidates have increased since the pandemic outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 in 2019. This search has become imperative due to the increasing emergences and limited widely available medicines. The presence of bioactive anti-SARS-CoV-2 molecules was examined [...] Read more.
Multidisciplinary research efforts on potential COVID-19 vaccine and therapeutic candidates have increased since the pandemic outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 in 2019. This search has become imperative due to the increasing emergences and limited widely available medicines. The presence of bioactive anti-SARS-CoV-2 molecules was examined from various plant sources. Among them is a group of proteins called lectins that can bind carbohydrate moieties. In this article, we present ten novel, chitin-specific Hevein-like lectins that were derived from Selaginella moellendorffii v1.0’s genome. The capacity of these lectin homologs to bind with the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 was examined. Using the HDOCK server, 3D-modeled Hevein-domains were docked to the spike protein’s receptor binding domain (RBD). The Smo446851, Smo125663, and Smo99732 interacted with Asn343-located complex N-glycan and RBD residues, respectively, with binding free energies of −17.5, −13.0, and −26.5 Kcal/mol. The molecular dynamics simulation using Desmond and the normal-state analyses via torsional coordinate association for the Smo99732-RBD complex using iMODS is characterized by overall higher stability and minimum deformity than the other lectin complexes. The three lectins interacting with carbohydrates were docked against five individual mutations that frequently occur in major SARS-CoV-2 variants. These were in the spike protein’s receptor-binding motif (RBM), while Smo125663 and Smo99732 only interacted with the spike glycoprotein in a protein–protein manner. The precursors for the Hevein-like homologs underwent additional characterization, and their expressional profile in different tissues was studied. These in silico findings offered potential lectin candidates targeting key N-glycan sites crucial to the virus’s virulence and infection. Full article
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