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New dehydroabietic acid (DHA) derivatives with anticancer activity against HepG2 cancer cell lines as a potential drug targeting EGFR kinase domain. CoMFA study and virtual ligand-based screening

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Pages 2993-3003 | Received 20 Mar 2020, Accepted 16 Apr 2020, Published online: 04 May 2020
 

Abstract

Liver cancer has become the third type of cancer that causes death; this is why the design of new chemotherapeutic drugs against this disease is a major need. With this idea, a series of Dehydroabietic Acid-Based Acylhydrazones have been used to generate a CoMFA model to design new anticancer agents. In this study, we employed a Comparative Molecular Field Analysis studies, we performed those methods on Dehydroabietic Acid-Based Acylhydrazones against HepG2 human cancer cell line. The statistical results are encouraging with Q2 equal to 0.527 and R2 equal to 0.962. The predictive ability of this model was determined using a test set of Dehydroabietic Acid-Based Acylhydrazones that gave an acceptable predictive correlation (R2test) value of 0.614. The developed model guides to design five new molecules with enhanced activity as potential drugs. On the other hand to determine a potential target to these ligands we have established a virtual screening using reverse docking with the most active molecule and 42 antiproliferative targets. Based on the affinity of complex ligand-Target, the intracellular domain of EGFR shows high stability. This suggests that our designed molecules can inhibit the target EGFR which is an important target on targeted therapy of many types of cancer.

Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma

Disclosure statement

We wish to confirm that there are no known conflicts of interest associated with this publication and there has been no significant financial support for this work that could have influenced its outcome.

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