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De novo Drug Design to Suppress Coronavirus RNA-Glycoprotein via PNA-Calcitonin

  • Soykan Agar*
  • , Barbaros Akkurt
  • , Levent Alparslan
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Kocaeli Health and Technology University
  • Istinye University

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Abstract

De novo drug design has been studied utilizing the organic chemical structures of Salmon Calcitonin 9-19 and Peptide Nucleic Acid (PNA) to suppress Coronavirus Ribonucleic Acid (RNA)-Glycoprotein complex. PNA has a polyamide backbone and thymine pendant groups to bind and selectively inhibit adenine domains of the RNA-Glycoprotein complex. While doing so, molecular docking and molecular dynamics studies revealed that there is great inhibition docking energy (-12.1 kcal/mol) with significantly good inhibition constant (124.1 µM) values confirming the efficient nucleotide-specific silencing of Coronavirus RNA-Glycoprotein complex.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)623-632
Number of pages10
JournalJournal of the Turkish Chemical Society, Section A: Chemistry
Volume11
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 May 2024

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Keywords

  • Coronavirus Glycoprotein
  • Coronavirus RNA
  • Hydrogen Contact Mapping
  • Molecular Docking
  • Molecular Dynamics
  • Salmon Calcitonin

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