| Autor: |
Khan MA; Department of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, University of Development Alternative, Dhaka, Bangladesh., Mahmud S; Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh., Alam ASMRU; Department of Microbiology, Jashore University of Science and Technology, Jashore, Bangladesh., Rahman ME; Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh., Ahmed F; Department of Microbiology, Noakhali Science and Technology University, Noakhali, Bangladesh., Rahmatullah M; Department of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, University of Development Alternative, Dhaka, Bangladesh. |
| Abstrakt: |
Recent outbreak of novel coronavirus and its rapid pandemic escalation in all over the world has drawn the attention to urgent need for effective drug development. However, due to prolonged vaccine and drug development procedure against a newly emerged devastating SARS-CoV-2 virus pathogen, repurposing of existing potential pertinent drug molecules would be preferable strategy to reduce mortality immediately and further development of new drugs to combat overall global Covid-19 crisis in all over the world. Herein, we have filtered 23 prospective drug candidates through literature review. Assessing evidences from molecular docking studies, it was clearly seen that, Epirubicin, Vapreotida, and Saquinavir exhibited better binding affinity against SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease than other drug molecules among the 23 potential inhibitors. However, 50 ns molecular dynamics simulation indicated the less mobile nature of the docked complex maintaining structural integrity. Our overall prediction findings indicate that Epirubicin, Vapreotida, and Saquinavir may inhibit COVID-19 by synergistic interactions in the active cavity and those results can pave the way in drug discovery although it has to be further validated by in-vitro and in-vivo investigations.Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma. |
