PMID- 30195234 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20190128 LR - 20190128 IS - 1476-928X (Electronic) IS - 1476-9271 (Linking) VI - 77 DP - 2018 Dec TI - Computer-aided identification of natural lead compounds as cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors using virtual screening and molecular dynamic simulation. PG - 1-16 LID - S1476-9271(18)30157-9 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2018.07.005 [doi] AB - In order to find more natural lead-compounds as inhibitors for Cyclooxygenase-2, the essential structural features for human cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors and 3D-Quantitative structure activity relationship (3D-QSAR) model were carried out based on dataset from three confirmatory bioassays using Phase program. Six point pharmacophore (AAHRRR) of COX-2 selective inhibitors was generated from training set of 52 compounds. The 3D-QSAR model was selected as having favourable statistic measures (R(2) = 0.93, Q(2)(ext) = 0.81) for the training set and test set respectively. This model was developed using the best pharmacophore hypothesis that helped to reveal the essential features responsible for the anti-inflammatory activity. As a result, this pharmacophore hypothesis has aided in the identification of new four natural lead compounds from UNPD database (UNPD100208, UNPD168234, UNPD91145, UNPD57376) that can be used as potential anti-inflammatory agents or as a core structure to develop other more selective molecules. This result was confirmed by molecular docking, which showed that these four natural lead-compounds adopt the same orientation as Rofecoxib in the COX-2 active site. On the other hand, a molecular dynamic simulation (MDS) was applied and repeated on the top ranking complex 5KIR-UNPD100208 and compared with the results of MDS of 5KIR-Rofecoxib. The results from MDS revealed a good stability of the compound UNPD100208 in the active site based on several parameters such as RMSD, RMSF and potential energy, which can nominate it as a natural anti-inflammatory lead-compound candidate. CI - Copyright (c) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. FAU - Ounissi, Mourad AU - Ounissi M AD - Laboratory of Ethnobotany and Natural Substances, Department of Natural Sciences, ENS Kouba, BP.92, 16050, Algiers, Algeria; Department of Biology, Faculty of Natural and Life Sciences, Ziane Achour University, BP.3117, Djelfa, Algeria. Electronic address: ounissi_mourad@outlook.com. FAU - Kameli, Abdelkrim AU - Kameli A AD - Laboratory of Ethnobotany and Natural Substances, Department of Natural Sciences, ENS Kouba, BP.92, 16050, Algiers, Algeria. FAU - Tigrine, Chafia AU - Tigrine C AD - Laboratory of Ethnobotany and Natural Substances, Department of Natural Sciences, ENS Kouba, BP.92, 16050, Algiers, Algeria. FAU - Rachedi, Fatma Zohra AU - Rachedi FZ AD - Department of Biology, Faculty of Natural and Life Sciences, Ziane Achour University, BP.3117, Djelfa, Algeria. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20180704 PL - England TA - Comput Biol Chem JT - Computational biology and chemistry JID - 101157394 RN - 0 (Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal) RN - 0 (Biological Products) RN - 0 (Cyclooxygenase 2 Inhibitors) RN - EC 1.14.99.1 (Cyclooxygenase 2) SB - IM MH - Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal/chemical synthesis/chemistry/*pharmacology MH - Biological Products/chemical synthesis/chemistry/*pharmacology MH - *Computer-Aided Design MH - Cyclooxygenase 2/*metabolism MH - Cyclooxygenase 2 Inhibitors/chemical synthesis/chemistry/*pharmacology MH - *Drug Evaluation, Preclinical MH - Humans MH - *Molecular Dynamics Simulation MH - Molecular Structure MH - Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship OTO - NOTNLM OT - COX-2 OT - Lead compounds OT - Molecular dynamic simulation OT - Pharmacophore model OT - UNPD OT - Virtual screening EDAT- 2018/09/09 06:00 MHDA- 2019/01/29 06:00 CRDT- 2018/09/09 06:00 PHST- 2018/04/21 00:00 [received] PHST- 2018/06/22 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2018/07/03 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2018/09/09 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/01/29 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2018/09/09 06:00 [entrez] AID - S1476-9271(18)30157-9 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2018.07.005 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Comput Biol Chem. 2018 Dec;77:1-16. doi: 10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2018.07.005. Epub 2018 Jul 4.