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Chemical profiling of polyphenols in <i>Thunbergia alata<i/> and <i>in silico<i/> virtual screening of their antiviral activities against COVID-19

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Last updated: 27 Dec 2024

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Pharmacognosy

Abstract

A comprehensive analysis of the polyphenols constituents found in Thunbergia alata leaves using (UPLC-Triple TOF-MS/MS) and natural polyphenols' antiviral properties have motivated us to perform in silico binding affinity study of flavonoids and coumarins identified in T. alata leaves extract against different proteins of SARS-COV-2; (Mpro) main protease (PDB ID: 6LU7) and 2′-Omethyltransferase (PDB ID: 6wkq) using a co-crystalized ligands N3 and Sinefungin respectively. 30 comp.s were tentatively identified in T. alata leaves extract by UPLC-Triple TOF-MS/MS and characterized as 8-phenolic acids; 12-flavonoids; 3-coumarins and remain comp.s unidentified. In silico virtual screening of both flavonoids and coumarins as the most common classes of polyphenols; Flavonoids have the best potential to act as COVID-19 Mpro & MTase inhibitors; especially Kaempferol-3-O-(6""-p-coumaroyl)-glucoside; Comp. (17) which gave very best docking score{ -9.2 kcal/mol} (docking energy score of N3 -7.6 kcal/mol). It bind by nine hydrogen bonds (with TRY54, CYS145, GLN192, PHE140, LEU141, THR26, ARG188 and ASN142), and Pi-Sulfur interaction (with MET165), hydrophobic interactions via five Pi-Alkyl bond (with MET49, CYS145 and PRO168) and also scored energy binding -10.2 (docking energy score of Sinefungin -7.8 kcal/mol); formed H-bond with ASN6841, ASN6899, CYS6913, LYS6968, GLY6869, GLY6871, ASP6928, ASN6996 and TRY6930. Moreover, 17 binds with LYS6844, LYS6935, LEU6898 and CYS6913 via hydrophobic interactions. While coumarins in comparison with the current flavonoids had less energy binding score. However, further research is important to investigate their potential medicine value.

DOI

10.21608/aijpms.2021.72999.1062

Keywords

<i>Thunbergia<i/>, COVID-19, docking, Polyphenolics, UPLC-QTOF-ESI -MS/MS, antioxidant

Authors

First Name

Fatma

Last Name

Abd El -Aal

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Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy (Girls), Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

Email

fs92020@gmail.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000-0002-0842-0259

First Name

Hala

Last Name

Mohammed

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-

Affiliation

Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy (Girls), Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

Email

halashaaban2829@gmail.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000-0001-6288

First Name

Mona

Last Name

Ibrahim

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-

Affiliation

Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy (Girls), Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

Email

mona.hussein@azhar.edu.eg

City

cairo

Orcid

0000-0002-8235-5715

First Name

Lotfy

Last Name

Ismail

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-

Affiliation

Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy (Boys), Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

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lotfydiab@yahoo.com

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Cairo

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-

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1

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2

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25720

Issue Date

2021-06-01

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2021-04-18

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2021-06-01

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94

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100

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2735-4598

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2735-4601

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Azhar International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Medical Sciences

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Chemical profiling of polyphenols in <i>Thunbergia alata<i/> and <i>in silico<i/> virtual screening of their antiviral activities against COVID-19

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23 Jan 2023