1. Chemoinformatics Profiling of the Chromone Nucleus as a MAO-B/A2AAR Dual Binding Scaffold
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Fernanda Borges, M. Natália D. S. Cordeiro, Yunier Perera-Sardiña, Maykel Cruz-Monteagudo, Aminael Sánchez-Rodríguez, Aliuska Morales Helguera, Eduardo Tejera, César Paz-y-Miño, and Yunierkis Pérez-Castillo
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0301 basic medicine ,Scaffold ,Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors ,Receptor, Adenosine A2A ,A2A adenosine receptor ,Adenosine A2A receptor ,Computational biology ,chemoinformatics ,Article ,03 medical and health sciences ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Structure-Activity Relationship ,0302 clinical medicine ,dual-target binder ,medicine ,Animals ,Humans ,Pharmacology (medical) ,Monoamine Oxidase ,Pharmacology ,Virtual screening ,Drug discovery ,Chemistry ,chromones ,Parkinson Disease ,General Medicine ,Adenosine A2 Receptor Antagonists ,Molecular Docking Simulation ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,030104 developmental biology ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,parkinson´s disease ,Neurology ,Cheminformatics ,Chromone ,monoamine oxidase B ,Neurology (clinical) ,Monoamine oxidase B ,Nucleus ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Protein Binding - Abstract
Background In the context of the current drug discovery efforts to find disease modifying therapies for Parkinson's disease (PD) the current single target strategy has proved inefficient. Consequently, the search for multi-potent agents is attracting more and more attention due to the multiple pathogenetic factors implicated in PD. Multiple evidences points to the dual inhibition of the monoamine oxidase B (MAO-B), as well as adenosine A2A receptor (A2AAR) blockade, as a promising approach to prevent the neurodegeneration involved in PD. Currently, only two chemical scaffolds has been proposed as potential dual MAO-B inhibitors/A2AAR antagonists (caffeine derivatives and benzothiazinones). Methods In this study, we conduct a series of chemoinformatics analysis in order to evaluate and advance the potential of the chromone nucleus as a MAO-B/A2AAR dual binding scaffold. Results The information provided by SAR data mining analysis based on network similarity graphs and molecular docking studies support the suitability of the chromone nucleus as a potential MAOB/ A2AAR dual binding scaffold. Additionally, a virtual screening tool based on a group fusion similarity search approach was developed for the prioritization of potential MAO-B/A2AAR dual binder candidates. Among several data fusion schemes evaluated, the MEAN-SIM and MIN-RANK GFSS approaches demonstrated to be efficient virtual screening tools. Then, a combinatorial library potentially enriched with MAO-B/A2AAR dual binding chromone derivatives was assembled and sorted by using the MIN-RANK and then the MEAN-SIM GFSS VS approaches. Conclusion The information and tools provided in this work represent valuable decision making elements in the search of novel chromone derivatives with a favorable dual binding profile as MAOB inhibitors and A2AAR antagonists with the potential to act as a disease-modifying therapeutic for Parkinson's disease.
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- 2017