Title
Pharmacoinformatics and molecular docking reveal potential drug candidates against Schizophrenia to target TAAR6
Date Issued
01 August 2019
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Tahir R.A.
Wu H.
Javed N.
Khalique A.
Khan S.A.F.
Mir A.
Ahmed M.S.
Qing H.
Ashraf G.M.
Sehgal S.A.
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Publisher(s)
Wiley-Liss Inc.
Abstract
Schizophrenia (SZ) is a complex disabling disorder that leads to the mental disability and afflicts 1% of the world's total population and placed in top ten medical disorders. In current work, bioinformatics analyses were carried out on Trace amine (TA)-associated receptor 6 (TAAR6) to recognize the potential drugs and compounds against SZ. Comparative modeling and threading-based approaches were utilized for the structure prediction of TAAR6. Fifty-nine predicted structures were evaluated by various model assessment techniques and final model having only eight amino acids in the outlier region and 98.5% overall quality factor was chosen for further pharmacoinformatics and molecular docking analyses. From an extensive literature review, 11 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved drugs were analyzed by computational techniques and Aripiprazole was found as the most effective drug against SZ by targeting TAAR6. Here, we report five novel molecules which exhibited the highest binding affinity, effective drug properties, and interestingly, observed better results than the approved selected drugs against SZ by targeting TAAR6. The docking analyses revealed that Arg-92, Trp-98, Gln-191, Thr-192, Ala-290, Cys-291, Tyr-293, and Glu-294 residues were observed as critical interacting residues in receptor-ligand interactions. Absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, and toxicity (ADMET) properties, Lipinski rule of five, highest binding affinity coupled with virtual screening (VS), and pharmacophore modeling approach illustrated that aripiprazole (−8.6 kcal/mol) and TAAR6_0094 (−9.3 kcal/mol) are potential inhibitors for targeting TAAR6. It is suggested that schizophrenic patients have to use Aripiprazole for the medication of SZ by targeting TAAR6 and develop effective therapies by utilizing scrutinized novel compound.
Start page
13263
End page
13276
Volume
234
Issue
8
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Bioinformática
Farmacología, Farmacia
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85058858924
PubMed ID
Source
Journal of Cellular Physiology
ISSN of the container
00219541
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