Excavating phytochemicals from plants possessing antiviral activities for identifying SARS-CoV hemagglutinin-esterase inhibitors by diligent computational workflow

Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics
2023.0

Abstract

Coronaviruses (CoVs) belong to a group of RNA viruses that cause diseases in vertebrates including. Newer and deadlier than SARS CoV-2 are sought to appear in future for which the scientific community must be prepared with the strategies for their control. Spike protein (S-protein) of all the CoVs require angiotensin-converting enzyme2 (ACE2), while CoVs also require hemagglutinin-acetylesterase (HE) glycoprotein receptor to simultaneously interact with O-acetylated sialic acids on host cells, both these interactions enable viral particle to enter host cell leading to its infection. Target inhibition of viral S-protein and HE glycoprotein receptor can lead to a development of therapy against the SARS CoV-2. The proposition is to recognize molecules from the bundle of phytochemicals of medicinal plants known to possess antiviral potentials as a lead that could interact and mask the active site of, HE glycoprotein which would ideally bind to O-acetylated sialic acids on human host cells. Such molecules can be addressed as 'HE glycoprotein blockers'. A library of 110 phytochemicals from Withania somnifera, Asparagus racemosus, Zinziber officinalis, Allium sativum, Curcuma longa and Adhatoda vasica was constructed and was used under present study. In silico analysis was employed with plant-derived phytochemicals. The molecular docking, molecular dynamics simulations over the scale of 1000 ns (1 mus) and ADMET prediction revealed that the Withania somnifera (ashwagandha) and Asparagus racemosus (shatavari) plants possessed various steroidal saponins and alkaloids which could potentially inhibit the COVID-19 virus and even other CoVs targeted HE glycoprotein receptor.Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma.

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