In collaboration with Payame Noor University and Iranian Chemical Science and Technologies Association

Document Type : Full research article

Authors

Department of Chemistry, Payame Noor University, 19395-4697, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Tobacco mosaic virus causes great economic damage to tobacco, pepper, cucumber and ornamental flowers all over the world. In the current work, the relationship between the structure and activity of novel series echinopsin derivatives containing acylhydrazone fragments as antiviral activity against tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) was studied using quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) calculations and molecular docking analysis. Molecular docking analysis of echinopsin derivatives with tobacco mosaic virus (2OM3) protein was done using AutoDock software and descriptors such as binding energy, electroestatic energy and hydrogen bond energy were calculated. The negative values of the binding energy illustrated that the binding nature of these derivatives, as the ligand with the 2OM3 protein is strong. For QSAR model first, the dataset was divided into two groups of training and test sets. Then, descriptors were calculated using quantum mechanics, molecular docking and molecular descriptors. Then, modeling was done by multiple linear regression (MLR) method. It was found that of the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) and Gibbs free energy changes play a role in the model. Also, the descriptors of the total energy of van der Waals interactions, hydrogen bond and energy of vdW + H-bond + desolvation of the molecular docking descriptors have an effect in the regression model. This study can play an important role to design anti –TMV inhibitors.

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