117236

Impact of magnesium, zinc, selenium, copper, and iodine food supplements on SARS-CoV, SARS-CoV-2 viruses and their adducts with human ACE2 enzyme: A Computational Based Investigat

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Physical chemistry

Abstract

In a search for drugs of the potential impact on SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2, we have chosen different forms of metal-based food supplements to investigate. We computed their binding to specific peptide sequences of the spike virus S-protein: angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) interface-drug binding adduct. Manual docking was applied. The chosen molecules located themselves to achieve minimum energy geometries, resulting in limiting the viral recognition of the host cells or disturbing the host-virus interactions. Based on the HOMO – LUMO frontier orbitals, we successfully used the computed reactivity indices to explain the simulation results. The results are compared with that similarly simulated interactions between the protein/protein and the experimentally allowed remdesivir drug that has been granted emergency use authorization by the FDA. These computationally based findings also suggest that the simple computational indices and methods could point to promising medicines to help with the fight against COVID-19. However, in vivo and in vitro, experimental validation is now required.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2020.39235.2802

Keywords

Viral S proteins, Food supplements, Organometallics, Frontier orbitals, Reactivity indices, Binding energy

Authors

First Name

Mohamed Sabry

Last Name

Abdel-Mottaleb

MiddleName

Ahmed

Affiliation

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University

Email

m.s.abdelmottaleb@sci.asu.edu.eg

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000-0002-4437-7040

First Name

Yousra

Last Name

Abdel-Mottaleb

MiddleName

M

Affiliation

Faculty of Pharmacy, the Future University in Egypt

Email

yabdelmottaleb@hotmail.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000-0002-4327-4920

Volume

64

Article Issue

2

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21013

Issue Date

2021-02-01

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2020-08-14

Publish Date

2021-02-01

Page Start

989

Page End

996

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/article_117236.html

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297

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Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/

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Impact of magnesium, zinc, selenium, copper, and iodine food supplements on SARS-CoV, SARS-CoV-2 viruses and their adducts with human ACE2 enzyme: A Computational Based Investigation

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22 Jan 2023