The COVID-19 pandemic caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a massive viral disease outbreak of international concerns. The present study is mainly intended to identify the bioactive phytocompounds from traditional antiviral herb Houttuynia cordata Thunb. as potential inhibitors for three main replication proteins of SARS-CoV-2, namely Main protease (Mpro), Papain-Like protease (PLpro) and ADP ribose phosphatase (ADRP) which control the replication process. A total of 177 phytocompounds were characterized from H. cordata using GC–MS/LC–MS and they were docked against three SARS-CoV-2 proteins (receptors), namely Mpro, PLpro and ADRP using Epic, LigPrep and Glide module of Schrödinger suite 2020-3. During docking studies, phytocompounds (ligand) 6-Hydroxyondansetron (A104) have demonstrated strong binding affinity toward receptors Mpro (PDB ID 6LU7) and PLpro (PDB ID 7JRN) with G-score of???7.274 and???5.672, respectively, while Quercitrin (A166) also showed strong binding affinity toward ADRP (PDB ID 6W02) with G-score -6.788. Molecular Dynamics Simulation (MDS) performed using Desmond module of Schrödinger suite 2020–3 has demonstrated better stability in the ligand–receptor complexes A104-6LU7 and A166-6W02 within 100 ns than the A104-7JRN complex. The ADME-Tox study performed using SwissADMEserver for pharmacokinetics of the selected phytocompounds 6-Hydroxyondansetron (A104) and Quercitrin (A166) demonstrated that 6-Hydroxyondansetron passes all the required drug discovery rules which can potentially inhibit Mpro and PLpro of SARS-CoV-2 without causing toxicity while Quercitrin demonstrated less drug-like properties but also demonstrated as potential inhibitor for ADRP. Present findings confer opportunities for 6-Hydroxyondansetron and Quercitrin to be developed as new therapeutic drug against COVID-19.
The present paper reports the dislocation unpinning model of acoustic emission (AE) from alkali halide crystals. Equations
are derived for the strain dependence of the transient AE pulse rate, peak value of the AE pulse rate and the total number
of AE pulse emitted. It is found that the AE pulse rate should be maximum for a particular strain of the crystals. The peak
value of the AE pulse rate should depend on the volume and strain rate of the crystals, and also on the pinning time of dislocations.
Since the pinning time of dislocations decreases with increasing strain rate, the AE pulse rate should be weakly dependent
on the strain rate of the crystals. The total number of AE should increase linearly with deformation and then it should attain
a saturation value for the large deformation. By measuring the strain dependence of the AE pulse rate at a fixed strain rate,
the time constantτs for surface annihilation of dislocations and the pinning timeτp of the dislocations can be determined. A good agreement is found between the theoretical and experimental results related
to the AE from alkali halide crystals. 相似文献
Considering external electric field as well as third- and fourth-order phonon anharmonic interaction terms in the pseudospin-lattice
coupled mode (PLCM) model Hamiltonian for KDP-type ferroelectrics, expressions for field-dependent shift, width, renormalized
soft mode frequency, Curie temperature, dielectric constant and dielectric loss are evaluated. For the calculation, method
of statistical double-time temperature-dependent Green’s function has been used. By fitting model values of physical quantities,
temperature and electric field dependences of soft mode frequency, dielectric constant and loss have been calculated which
compare well with experimental results of Baumgartner [8] and Choi and Lockwood [9]. Both dielectric constant and loss decrease
with electric field. 相似文献
Nanosize aluminum substituted nickel zinc ferrites were prepared through aerosol route and characterized using TEM, XRD, magnetic measurements and Mössbauer spectroscopy. The particle size of as obtained samples was found to be ∼10 nm which increases up to ∼85 nm upon annealing at 1200 °C. The unit cell parameter ‘a’ decreases linearly with concentration of aluminum due to the small ionic radius of aluminum. The saturation magnetization for all the samples after annealing at 1200 °C lies in the range 12.9–72.6 emu/g and decreases linearly with concentration of aluminum. Room temperature Mössbauer spectra of all as obtained samples of ferrite compositions exhibited a broad doublet suggesting super paramagnetic nature. This doublet is further resolved into two doublets and assigned to the surface region and internal region atoms of the particles. The samples annealed at 1200 °C show broad sextets, which were fitted with five sextets, indicating different local environment of both tetrahedrally and octahedrally coordinated Fe cation. 相似文献
Using a parametric approach, duality is presented for a minimax fractional programming problem that involves several ratios in the objective function.The first author is thankful to Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada for financial support through Grant A-5319, and the authors are thankful to the anonymous referees for useful suggestions. 相似文献
Studies of breakdown threshold intensity for air at various pressures in the range of 24–760 torr using 0.355, 0.532 and 1.06
μm radiation are reported. We observep−0.8 scaling ofIth at 1.06 μm and a weak scaling ofp−0.4 at 0.532 and 0.355 μm radiation. Strong dependence of breakdown spot size on laser power but weak dependence on air pressure
is observed. 相似文献
From flash photolysis data of benzil and 2,2′-dichlorobenzil, the role of conformeric triplets in the formation of hydrogen
adduct radicals has been discussed. The planar relaxed triplet absorbing at 470 nm is less efficient in forming a hydrogen
adduct radical as compared to its puckered conformeric partner. Among the hydrogen donors, triethyl amine and isopropanol,
the former is more efficient in converting puckered triplets and less efficient in the case of planar conformers. Absorptions
of radicals and radical anions of 2,2′-dichlorobenzil appear at 355 nm and 460 nm respectively. These are blue-shifted as
compared to those of the parent compound benzil appearing at 370 nm and 540 nm, respectively. This blue-shift has been discussed
in terms of steric hindrance due to ortho-substitution. 相似文献
The values of the second dissociation constant, K2, and related thermodynamic quantities of the ampholyte bis[(2-hydroxyethyl)amino]acetic acid (BICINE) have been determined at temperatures from 5 to 55 ∘C. The pH values of six equimolal buffer solutions, and four buffer solutions having ionic strengths (I = 0.16 mol⋅kg−1) similar to those in blood plasma, have been evaluated at 12 temperatures from 5 to 55 ∘C using the Bates–Guggenheim convention. The liquid junction potentials (Ej) between the buffer solutions of BICINE and saturated KCl solution of the calomel electrode at 25 and 37 ∘C have been estimated by measurement with a flowing junction cell. These values of Ej have been used to ascertain the operational pH values at 25 and 37 ∘C. The pK2 values at 25 and 37 ∘C are 8.333 and 8.156, respectively. The thermodynamic quantities associated with the second acid dissociation have been calculated from the values of pK2 as a function of temperature. The zwitterionic buffer BICINE was shown to be useful as a pH standard in the region close to that of blood serum. 相似文献