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Arbo viral infection such as dengue, chikungunya, japanese encephalitis,
west nile viruses and other flaviviruses have transmemberane envelope
proteins. These proteins (glycoproteins) form spike-like projections
responsible for virus attachment to target cells and acid-activated
membrane fusion. Further it targets numerous serologic reactions and tests
including neutralization and hemagglutination inhibition. These viruses
showed wide range of antigenic cross reactions and caused by seven
antigenic complexes from 30 species, huge subtypes and varieties. This
protein is the chief site for most neutralizing epitopes, highly conserved
with cross-reactive epitopes. In the present study, the ellagic acid
(4,4′,5,5′,6,6′-Hexahydroxydiphenic acid 2,6,2′,6′-dilactone) was evaluated
for the antiviral activity through Insilico docking against drug target
envelope proteins from dengue viruses. Ellagic acid showed good
docking score with all the four glycoproteins from dengue 1-4 viruses.
Among the glycoprotein receptors the glycoprotein-1 and 4 demonstrates
the highest docking score with energy minimization. This highlights that the
ellagic acid have potent antiviral activity against the dengue viruses.
Insulin receptor (IR) proteins were essential intracellular signaling peptides in the insulin action cascade. Insulin receptor substrate proteins (IRS-1and IRS-2) serve and regulate the insulin level in the normal insulin action. The broad role of IRS-1 and IRS-2 in cell growth and survival reveals a common regulatory pathway linking development, somatic growth, fertility, neuronal proliferation, and aging to the core mechanisms used by vertebrates for nutrient sensing. Such type of proteins were cyclic adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase, this proteins play a key role in the insulin response and regulation. Type -2 Diabetes mellitus occurs during prolonged periods of peripheral insulin resistance due to inactivation of IRS proteins. The compounds isolated from the medicinal plants were safer than synthetic drugs and possess high bio activity. In the present study, four compounds were elucidated from fruits of Helicteres isora. The elucidated compounds were evaluated for the antidiabetic activity using Insilico docking study. The receptor was analyzed for the active site and pocket finder tools. The aminoacids such as Phenylalanine, Lysine, Glutamic acid and Asparigine were predicted as active site binding residues. Docking studies were done through Autodock 4 software. All the compounds from fruits of Helicteres isora showed good docking profiles with AMP Kinase, except compound-3 (1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-1,5,6,8-tetramethyl-7-(2-methylprop-1-enylnaphthalene-4-ylpivalate). Finally the result from the study demonstrates that the HS-1, HS-2 and HS-4 posses potent anti diabetic activity against type-2 diabetes mellitus through drug action on AMP kinase cascade system.
Prostaglandins and glucocorticoids are potent mediators of inflammation. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) exert their effects by inhibition of prostaglandin production. The pharmacological target of NSAIDs is cyclooxygenase (COX, also known as PGH synthase), which catalyses the first committed step in arachidonic-acid metabolism. Two isoforms of the membrane protein COX are known: COX-1, which is constitutively expressed in most tissues, is responsible for the physiological production of prostaglandins; and COX-2, which is induced by cytokines, mitogens and endotoxins in inflammatory cells, is responsible for the elevated production of prostaglandins during inflammation. The structure of ovine COX-1 complexed with several NSAIDs has been determined. Here we report the structures of unliganded murine COX-2 and complexes with flurbiprofen, indomethacin and SC-558, a selective COX-2 inhibitor, determined at 3.0 to 2.5 A resolution. These structures explain the structural basis for the selective inhibition of COX-2, and demonstrate some of the conformational changes associated with time-dependent inhibition.
The availability of receptor knockouts and the use of expressed receptors to aid in the development of specific agonists and antagonists provide powerful tools for studying the biological importance of this group of bioactive lipids. This approach will be refined as tissue-specific inducible knockouts become available, and as mice carrying targeted mutations on a pure genetic background become more widely used. The combination of genetic approaches with the use of defined, specific pharmacological probes is likely to be extremely powerful. Examples of polymorphic variation in some prostanoid receptors have already been reported (39), and the relevance of these observations to disease susceptibility and interindividual variations in drug response is likely to become increasingly clear. While the role of prostanoids and associated compounds as nuclear receptor ligands is a seductive possibility, conclusive evidence that such events actually occur at concentrations of the endogenous compounds attained in vivo remains to be established.
Prostaglandins are formed from arachidonic acid by the action of cyclooxygenase and subsequent downstream synthetases. Two closely related forms of the cyclooxygenase have been identified which are now known as COX-1 and COX-2. Both isoenzymes transform arachidonic acid to prostaglandins, but differ in their distribution and their physiological roles. Meanwhile, the responsible genes and their regulation have been clarified. COX-1, the pre-dominantly constitutive form of the enzyme, is expressed throughout the body and performs a number of homeostatic functions such as maintaining normal gastric mucosa and influencing renal blood flow and platelet aggregation. In contrast, the inducible form is expressed in response to inflammatory and other physiological stimuli and growth factors, and is involved in the production of the prostaglandins that mediate pain and support the inflammatory process. All the classic NSAIDs inhibit both COX-1 and COX-2 at standard anti-inflammatory doses. The beneficial anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects are based on the inhibition of COX-2, but the gastrointestinal toxicity and the mild bleeding diathesis are a result of the concurrent inhibition of COX-1. Agents that inhibit COX-2 while sparing COX-1 represent a new attractive therapeutic development and could represent a major advance in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis. Apart from its involvement in inflammatory processes, COX-2 seems to play a role in angiogenesis, colon cancer and Alzheimer's disease, based on the fact that it is expressed during these diseases. The benefits of specific and selective COX-2 inhibitors are currently under discussion and offer a new perspective for a further use of COX-2 inhibitors.
Rationally designed tetrahydropyrans (THPs) carrying one, two, or three aryl rings and other substituents were synthesized by the allylation of beta-hydroxy ketones followed by iodocyclization. It has been observed that compounds with one aryl ring on THP are moderate inhibitors of cyclooxygenase-1 (COX-1) (IC(50) = 0.3 microM) and cyclooxygenase-2 (IC(50) = 0.17 microM) with poor selectivity index (SI = 2-3) for COX-2. The presence of two aryl rings enhanced their inhibitory activities for COX-2 (IC(50) = 0.9-5.5 nM). Selectivity for COX-2 over COX-1 also increased (SI = 50-1900), while triaryl substituted THPs, along with high inhibition (IC(50) = 0.57-4.0 nM), also exhibited excellent selectivity for COX-2 over COX-1 (SI = 3200-44000). Similar to the experimental results of increased COX-2 inhibition and selectivity with the increase in the size of the molecule, their docking in the active sites of COX-1 and COX-2 also showed same trend. Seven compounds from the category of di- and triaryl substituted THPs exhibited average GI(50) over all the human tumor cell lines in the range 1.6-3.2 microM and showed in vitro therapeutic indices of 8-17.
Angiogenesis is the development of new blood vessels from an existing vascular bed. Normal vascular proliferation occurs only during embryonic development, the female reproductive cycle and wound repair. By contrast, many pathological conditions (for example, cancer, atherosclerosis and diabetic retinopathy), are characterized by persistent, unregulated angiogenesis. Conversely, inadequate angiogenesis can lead to failure of ulcers to heal and myocardial infarction. Control of vascular development could permit new therapeutic approaches to these disorders. For example, several anti-angiogenic drugs are currently undergoing clinical trials for the treatment of cancer, whereas enhancement of angiogenesis by exogenous growth factors can prevent or limit the damage in chronic wounds and duodenal ulcers. Here Tai-Ping Fan, Rhys Jaggar and Roy Bicknell highlight recent achievements and discuss the prospects of receptor antagonists, enzyme inhibitors, tumour suppressor genes and vascular targeted approaches, especially that of gene therapy, in the future development of angiotherapy.
Recent discoveries of endogenous negative regulators of angiogenesis, thrombospondin, angiostatin and glioma-derived angiogenesis inhibitory factor, all associated with neovascularized tumours, suggest a new paradigm of tumorigenesis. It is now helpful to think of the switch to the angiogenic phenotype as a net balance of positive and negative regulators of blood vessel growth. The extent to which the negative regulators are decreased during this switch may dictate whether a primary tumour grows rapidly or slowly and whether metastases grow at all.
The crystal structure of 2-bromoacetoxybenzoic acid, C9H7BrO4, shows it to be a close structural analog of aspirin. The carboxylic acid moiety is twisted by 7.7 (4) degrees out of the plane of the aromatic ring. The acetyl group, like that of aspirin, shows bond-angle distortions from ideal values while remaining essentially planar. The Br atom is rotationally disordered and has been modeled as occupying two sites related by a 13 (1) degree rotation about the C8--C9 bond.