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Research Articles

Extrapolation of hydroxytyrosol and its analogues as potential anti-inflammatory agents

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Pages 5588-5599 | Received 11 Mar 2020, Accepted 29 Jun 2020, Published online: 16 Jul 2020
 

Abstract

Discovery of potential lead molecule is a challenging, and complex process which require lots of money, patience, and manpower. Human beings are using natural products, predominantly secondary metabolites, for this purpose since ancient time and they are still working on them as a potent source for drug discovery due to their wide structural diversity. Phenolic phytochemicals such as hydroxytyrosol and tyrosol are natural antioxidant and involved in many biological disease cure. Herein, we have carried out the quantum chemical calculations for conformational analysis, geometry optimization and computation of electronic as well as optical properties of hydroxytyrosol and its analogues (1a–1k) in terms of density functional theory by using Gaussian 09 program suite. The eventual charge transfer within the molecules has been confirmed by the analysis of frontier molecular orbitals. The molecular docking studies of 1a–1k with cyclooxygenase-2 showed the noticeable binding affinity as compared to other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs viz. aspirin, naproxen and celecoxib. Computation of pharmacokinetics and pharmacological properties confirmed the lead/drug like potential of these screened molecules. Furthermore, the molecular dynamics simulation of best three docked ligands (1f, 1h and 1k)-receptor complex and their binding free energy calculations reveals that these molecules bind in the catalytic cavity of cyclooxygenase-2 and found stable during the 100 ns of simulation.

Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma

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Acknowledgements

Authors are thankful to IIT Indore, BHU Varanasi, and SERC at IISc Bangalore for providing the necessary research facilities.

Disclosure statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Author contributions

NK, NG designed; NK, BG, and SG carried out the necessary experiments. All authors wrote and reviewed the manuscript.

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Funding

NK (Award letter No. 201718-PDFSS-2017-18-UTT-17095), BG (DSK scheme) and NG (Letter No. F.30-431/2018(BSR), M-14-55) acknowledge University Grant Commission, Government of India for financial support.

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