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Caffeic acid derivatives (CAFDs) as inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2: CAFDs-based functional foods as a potential alternative approach to combat COVID-19

BACKGROUND: SARS-CoV-2, an emerging strain of coronavirus, has affected millions of people from all the continents of world and received worldwide attention. This emerging health crisis calls for the urgent development of specific therapeutics against COVID-19 to potentially reduce the burden of thi...

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Autores principales: Adem, Şevki, Eyupoglu, Volkan, Sarfraz, Iqra, Rasul, Azhar, Zahoor, Ameer Fawad, Ali, Muhammad, Abdalla, Mohnad, Ibrahim, Ibrahim M, Elfiky, Abdo A
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Publicado: Elsevier GmbH. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7442560/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32948420
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.phymed.2020.153310
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author Adem, Şevki
Eyupoglu, Volkan
Sarfraz, Iqra
Rasul, Azhar
Zahoor, Ameer Fawad
Ali, Muhammad
Abdalla, Mohnad
Ibrahim, Ibrahim M
Elfiky, Abdo A
author_facet Adem, Şevki
Eyupoglu, Volkan
Sarfraz, Iqra
Rasul, Azhar
Zahoor, Ameer Fawad
Ali, Muhammad
Abdalla, Mohnad
Ibrahim, Ibrahim M
Elfiky, Abdo A
author_sort Adem, Şevki
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description BACKGROUND: SARS-CoV-2, an emerging strain of coronavirus, has affected millions of people from all the continents of world and received worldwide attention. This emerging health crisis calls for the urgent development of specific therapeutics against COVID-19 to potentially reduce the burden of this emerging pandemic. PURPOSE: This study aims to evaluate the anti-viral efficacy of natural bioactive entities against COVID-19 via molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulation. METHODS: A library of 27 caffeic-acid derivatives was screened against 5 proteins of SARS-CoV-2 by using Molegro Virtual Docker 7 to obtain the binding energies and interactions between compounds and SARS-CoV-2 proteins. ADME properties and toxicity profiles were investigated via www.swissadme.ch web tools and Toxtree respectively. Molecular dynamics simulation was performed to determine the stability of the lead-protein interactions. RESULTS: Our obtained results has uncovered khainaoside C, 6-O-Caffeoylarbutin, khainaoside B, khainaoside C and vitexfolin A as potent modulators of COVID-19 possessing more binding energies than nelfinavir against COVID-19 M(pro), Nsp15, SARS-CoV-2 spike S2 subunit, spike open state and closed state structure respectively. While Calceolarioside B was identified as pan inhibitor, showing strong molecular interactions with all proteins except SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein closed state. The results are supported by 20 ns molecular dynamics simulations of the best complexes. CONCLUSION: This study will hopefully pave a way for development of phytonutrients-based antiviral therapeutic for treatment or prevention of COVID-19 and further studies are recommended to evaluate the antiviral effects of these phytochemicals against SARS-CoV-2 in in vitro and in vivo models.
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spelling pubmed-74425602020-08-24 Caffeic acid derivatives (CAFDs) as inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2: CAFDs-based functional foods as a potential alternative approach to combat COVID-19 Adem, Şevki Eyupoglu, Volkan Sarfraz, Iqra Rasul, Azhar Zahoor, Ameer Fawad Ali, Muhammad Abdalla, Mohnad Ibrahim, Ibrahim M Elfiky, Abdo A Phytomedicine Original Article BACKGROUND: SARS-CoV-2, an emerging strain of coronavirus, has affected millions of people from all the continents of world and received worldwide attention. This emerging health crisis calls for the urgent development of specific therapeutics against COVID-19 to potentially reduce the burden of this emerging pandemic. PURPOSE: This study aims to evaluate the anti-viral efficacy of natural bioactive entities against COVID-19 via molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulation. METHODS: A library of 27 caffeic-acid derivatives was screened against 5 proteins of SARS-CoV-2 by using Molegro Virtual Docker 7 to obtain the binding energies and interactions between compounds and SARS-CoV-2 proteins. ADME properties and toxicity profiles were investigated via www.swissadme.ch web tools and Toxtree respectively. Molecular dynamics simulation was performed to determine the stability of the lead-protein interactions. RESULTS: Our obtained results has uncovered khainaoside C, 6-O-Caffeoylarbutin, khainaoside B, khainaoside C and vitexfolin A as potent modulators of COVID-19 possessing more binding energies than nelfinavir against COVID-19 M(pro), Nsp15, SARS-CoV-2 spike S2 subunit, spike open state and closed state structure respectively. While Calceolarioside B was identified as pan inhibitor, showing strong molecular interactions with all proteins except SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein closed state. The results are supported by 20 ns molecular dynamics simulations of the best complexes. CONCLUSION: This study will hopefully pave a way for development of phytonutrients-based antiviral therapeutic for treatment or prevention of COVID-19 and further studies are recommended to evaluate the antiviral effects of these phytochemicals against SARS-CoV-2 in in vitro and in vivo models. Elsevier GmbH. 2021-05 2020-08-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7442560/ /pubmed/32948420 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.phymed.2020.153310 Text en © 2020 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Adem, Şevki
Eyupoglu, Volkan
Sarfraz, Iqra
Rasul, Azhar
Zahoor, Ameer Fawad
Ali, Muhammad
Abdalla, Mohnad
Ibrahim, Ibrahim M
Elfiky, Abdo A
Caffeic acid derivatives (CAFDs) as inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2: CAFDs-based functional foods as a potential alternative approach to combat COVID-19
title Caffeic acid derivatives (CAFDs) as inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2: CAFDs-based functional foods as a potential alternative approach to combat COVID-19
title_full Caffeic acid derivatives (CAFDs) as inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2: CAFDs-based functional foods as a potential alternative approach to combat COVID-19
title_fullStr Caffeic acid derivatives (CAFDs) as inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2: CAFDs-based functional foods as a potential alternative approach to combat COVID-19
title_full_unstemmed Caffeic acid derivatives (CAFDs) as inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2: CAFDs-based functional foods as a potential alternative approach to combat COVID-19
title_short Caffeic acid derivatives (CAFDs) as inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2: CAFDs-based functional foods as a potential alternative approach to combat COVID-19
title_sort caffeic acid derivatives (cafds) as inhibitors of sars-cov-2: cafds-based functional foods as a potential alternative approach to combat covid-19
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7442560/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32948420
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.phymed.2020.153310
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