Identification of new novel scaffold for Aurora A inhibition by pharmacophore modeling and virtual screening |
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Authors: | Sayalee R Chavan Radha Charan Dash M Sarwar Alam Raj R Hirwani |
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Institution: | 1. CSIR Unit for Research and Development of Information Products, “Jopasana”, 85/1, Paud Road, Kothrud, Pune, 411038, India 2. Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Jamia Hamdard, Hamdard Nagar, New Delhi, 110062, India
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Abstract: | Aurora kinases belong to family of highly conserved serine/threonine protein kinases that are involved in diverse cell cycle events and play a major role in regulation of cell division. Abnormal expression of Aurora kinases may lead to cancer; hence, these are considered as a potential target in cancer treatment. In this research article, we identified three novel Aurora A inhibitors using modern computational tools. A four-point common 3D pharmacophore hypothesis of Aurora A (AurA) inhibitors was developed using a diverse set of 55 thienopyrimidine derivatives. A three-dimensional quantitative structure–activity relationship (3D-QSAR) study was carried out using atom-based alignment of diverse set of 55 molecules to evaluate the structure– activity relationships. Docking and 3D-QSAR studies were performed with the 3D structure of AurA to evaluate the generated pharmacophore. The pharmacophore model and 3D-QSAR results complemented the results of our docking study. The pharmacophore hypothesis, which yields the best results, was used to screen the Zinc ‘clean drug-like’ database. Various database filters such as 3D-arrangement of pharmacophoric features, predicted activity and binding interaction score were used to retrieve hits having potential AurA inhibition activity. |
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