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ArticleLife sciences2020

Assessment of effective imidazole derivatives against SARS-CoV-2 main protease through computational approach.

Assia Belhassan, Fatima En-Nahli, Hanane Zaki, Tahar Lakhlifi, Mohammed Bouachrine

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Article in Life sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Assia BelhassanMolecular Chemistry and Natural Substances Laboratory, Faculty of Science, Moulay Ismail University of Meknes, Morocco.
Fatima En-NahliMolecular Chemistry and Natural Substances Laboratory, Faculty of Science, Moulay Ismail University of Meknes, Morocco.
Hanane ZakiMolecular Chemistry and Natural Substances Laboratory, Faculty of Science, Moulay Ismail University of Meknes, Morocco.
Tahar LakhlifiMolecular Chemistry and Natural Substances Laboratory, Faculty of Science, Moulay Ismail University of Meknes, Morocco.
Mohammed BouachrineMolecular Chemistry and Natural Substances Laboratory, Faculty of Science, Moulay Ismail University of Meknes, Morocco; EST Khenifra, Sultan Moulay Sliman University, Benimellal, Morocco. Electronic address: m.bouachrine@est-umi.ac.ma.
Université Moulay Ismail de Meknes · MAUniversité Sultan Moulay Slimane · MA

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Because of the fast increase in deaths due to Corona Viral Infection in majority region in the world, the detection of drugs potent of this infection is a major need. With this idea, docking study was executed on eighteen imidazole derivatives based on 7-chloro-4-aminoquinoline against novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). In this study, we carried out a docking study of these molecules in the active site of SARS-CoV-2 main protease. The result indicate that Molecules N° 3, 7 and 14 have more binding energy with SARS-CoV-2 main protease recently crystallized (pdb code 6LU7) in comparison with the other imidazole derivatives and the two drug; Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine. Because of the best energy of interaction, these three molecules could have the most potential antiviral treatment of COVID-19 than the other studied compounds. The structures with best affinity in the binding site of the protease have more than 3 cycles and electronegative atoms in the structure. This may increase the binding affinity of these molecules because of formation of π-bonds, halogen interactions and/or Hydrogen bond interactions between compounds and the enzyme. So, compounds with more cycles and electronegative atoms could have a potent inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 main protease.

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Molecular Docking SimulationAminoquinolinesBinding SitesChloroquineCoronavirus 3C ProteasesCOVID-19 Drug TreatmentHydroxychloroquineImidazolesMolecular StructurePandemicsProtease InhibitorsSARS-CoV-27-chloro-4-aminoquinolineAminoquinolinesChloroquineCoronavirus 3C ProteasesHydroxychloroquineImidazolesProtease InhibitorsChloroquineCoronavirusCOVID-19HydroxychloroquineImidazoleMolecular docking

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PMID32956664
PMCPMC7499150
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