Identification of potent inhibitors of kynurenine-3-monooxygenase from natural products: In silico and in vitro approaches

Autor: Redouane Rebai, Miguel Carmena-Bargueño, Mohammed Esseddik Toumi, Imene Derardja, Luc Jasmin, Horacio Pérez-Sánchez, Abdennacer Boudah
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Heliyon, Vol 10, Iss 9, Pp e30287- (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2405-8440
DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e30287
Popis: Existing inhibitors of kynurenine-3-monooxygenase (KMO) have side effects and poorly cross the blood-brain barrier. Therefore, the discovery of new molecules targeting KMO isnecessary.This study aims to develop a novel therapeutic drug targeting KMO using computational methods and experimental validation of natural compounds.The results of our study show that the top four compounds, namely, 3′-Hydroxy-alpha-naphthoflavone exhibited the best docking scores with KMO (−10.0 kcal/mol), followed by 3′-Hydroxy-ss-naphthoflavone (−9.9 kcal/mol), genkwanin (−9.2 kcal/mol) and apigenin(-9.1 kcal/mol) respectively. Molecular dynamics was used to assess the stability of the primary target, KMO, and inhibitor complexes. We found stable interactions of 3′-Hydroxy-ss-naphthoflavone and apigenin with KMO up to 100 ns. Further, kinetic measurements showed that 3′-Hydroxy-alpha-naphthoflavone and 3′-Hydroxy-ss-naphthoflavone induce competitive inhibition with a good IC50 activity (15.85 ± 0.98 μM and 18.71 ± 0.78, respectively), while Genkwanin and Apigenin exhibit non-competitive inhibition mechanism (21.61 ± 0.97 μM and 24.14 ± 1.00 μM, respectively).Drug-likeness features and ADME analysis features also showed that the top four compounds could be used as potential candidates to replace the synthetic KMO inhibitor drugs with known side effects and poor brain-blood barrier penetration.
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