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A Rapid and Quantitative Fluorimetric Method for Protein-Targeting Small Molecule Drug Screening
Published on: October 16, 2015
Spectroscopic, molecular docking and dynamic simulation studies of binding between the new anticancer agent olmutinib
Amer M Alanazi1, Ahmed H Bakheit1, Mohamed W Attwa1
1Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Abstract:
In this study, the interaction between human serum albumin (HSA), which is the key bio-distributor of exogenous and endogenous compounds in the human bloodstream, and HM61713 (Olmutinib; OMB), which is used as an anticancer drug, is examined by multiple spectroscopic techniques (steady-state fluorescence, UV spectrophotometry, synchronous, and 3 D fluorescence) combined with molecular docking and molecular dynamic simulation investigations. The fluorescence results clearly demonstrated quenching in HSA fluorescence in the existence of OMB indicating the formation of complex and have also shown that the interaction is static. Fluorescence spectroscopy was used to obtain the binding constant values that revealed a strong interaction between the HSA and OMB at 298 K with a binding constant of 7.39x104 M-1 suggesting strong interaction. OMB binds to HSA at site I (IIA). Electrostatic forces and H-bonding were the main binding forces of main bonding between HSA and OMB as revealed by docking and thermodynamic results.Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma.
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