In Vitro Screening and MD Simulations of Thiourea Derivatives against SARS-CoV-2 in Association with Multidrug Resistance ABCB1 Transporter

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Severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is considered a global public health concern since it causes high morbidity and mortality. Recently, it has been reported that repurposed anti-COVID-19 drugs might interact with multidrug resistance ABC transporter, particularly ABCB1. In the current study, a series of thiourea derivatives were screened as potential inhibitors against SARS-CoV-2 by targeting the attachment of receptor binding domain (RBD) of spike protein with ACE2 and their interaction with human ABCB1 has also been explored. The results indicated strong impairment of RBD-ACE2 attachment by BB IV-46 with a percentage inhibition of 95.73 ± 1.79% relative to the positive control, while BB V-19 was proven inactive with a percentage inhibition of 50.90 ± 0.84%. The same compound (BB IV-46) interacted with ABCB1 and potentially inhibited cell proliferation of P-gp overexpressing cell line with an IC50 value of 4.651 ± 0.06 μM. BB V-19, which was inactive against SARS-CoV-2, was inactive against ABCB1 with a higher IC50 value of 35.72 ± 0.09 μM. Furthermore, molecular dynamics simulations followed by binding free-energy analysis explored the binding interaction of BB IV-46 and BB V-19 to RBD region of spike protein of SARS-CoV-2. The results confirmed that compound BB IV-46 interacted strongly with RBD with a significant binding energy (-127.0 kJ/mol), while BB V-19 interacted weakly (-29.30 kJ/mol). The key interacting residues of the RBD involved in binding included Leu441, Lys444, and Tyr449. This study highlights the importance of BB IV-46 against SARS-CoV-2; however, further pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamics studies are needed to be done.

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2022

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2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:7

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ACS omega - 7(2022), 51 vom: 27. Dez., Seite 47671-47679

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Englisch

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Assad, Mohammad [VerfasserIn]
Parveen, Zahida [VerfasserIn]
Farman, Saira [VerfasserIn]
Khurshid, Beenish [VerfasserIn]
Hashmi, Muhammad Ali [VerfasserIn]
Khan, Khalid Mohammed [VerfasserIn]
Khurshid, Akif [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 27.12.2022

published: Electronic-eCollection

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10.1021/acsomega.2c04671

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NLM350807132