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Integrating Docking and Molecular Dynamics Approaches for a Series of Proline-Based 2,5-Diketopiperazines As Novel Αβ-Tubulin Inhibitors Publisher Pubmed



Fani N1, 2 ; Bordbar AK1 ; Ghayeb Y2 ; Sepehri S3
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  1. 1. Department of Chemistry, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
  2. 2. Department of Chemistry, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran
  3. 3. Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran

Source: Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics Published:2015


Abstract

In this work, docking tools were utilized in order to study the binding properties of more than five hundred of proline-based 2,5-diketopiperazine in the binding site of αβ-tubulin. Results revealed that 20 compounds among them showed lower binding energies in comparison with Tryprostatin-A, a well known tubulin inhibitor and therefore could be potential inhibitors of tubulin. However, the precise evaluation of binding poses represents the similar binding modes for all of these compounds and Tryprostatin-A. Finally, the best docked complex was subjected to a 25 ns molecular dynamics simulation to further validate the proposed binding mode of this compound. © 2015 © 2015 Taylor and Francis.
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