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Study on the Mechanisms of Active Compounds in Traditional Chinese Medicine for the Treatment of Influenza Virus by Virtual Screening

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Editor, Senior Moderator
Interdiscip Sci. 2018 Mar 2. doi: 10.1007/s12539-018-0289-0. [Epub ahead of print]
[h=1]Study on the Mechanisms of Active Compounds in Traditional Chinese Medicine for the Treatment of Influenza Virus by Virtual Screening.[/h] Ai H[SUP]1,[/SUP][SUP]2[/SUP], Wu X[SUP]1,[/SUP][SUP]2[/SUP], Qi M[SUP]2[/SUP], Zhang L[SUP]2[/SUP], Hu H[SUP]2[/SUP], Zhao Q[SUP]3[/SUP], Zhao J[SUP]2[/SUP], Liu H[SUP]4,[/SUP][SUP]5[/SUP].
[h=3]Author information[/h]

[h=3]Abstract[/h] In recent years, new strains of influenza virus such as H7N9, H10N8, H5N6 and H5N8 had continued to emerge. There was an urgent need for discovery of new anti-influenza virus drugs as well as accurate and efficient large-scale inhibitor screening methods. In this study, we focused on six influenza virus proteins that could be anti-influenza drug targets, including neuraminidase (NA), hemagglutinin (HA), matrix protein 1 (M1), M2 proton channel (M2), nucleoprotein (NP) and non-structural protein 1 (NS1). Structure-based molecular docking was utilized to identify potential inhibitors for these drug targets from 13144 compounds in the Traditional Chinese Medicine Systems Pharmacology Database and Analysis Platform. The results showed that 56 compounds could inhibit more than two drug targets simultaneously. Further, we utilized reverse docking to study the interaction of these compounds with host targets. Finally, the 22 compound inhibitors could stably bind to host targets with high binding free energy. The results showed that the Chinese herbal medicines had a multi-target effect, which could directly inhibit influenza virus by the target viral protein and indirectly inhibit virus by the human target protein. This method was of great value for large-scale virtual screening of new anti-influenza virus compounds.


[h=4]KEYWORDS:[/h] Chinese herbal compound inhibitor; Influenza virus; Reverse docking; Virtual screening

PMID: 29500549 DOI: 10.1007/s12539-018-0289-0
 
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