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ArticleMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Unveiling of Pyrimidindinones as Potential Anti-Norovirus Agents-A Pharmacoinformatic-Based Approach.

Oluwakemi Ebenezer, Nkululeko Damoyi, Maryam A Jordaan, Michael Shapi

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Article in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. A Bibliometric Analysis of the Literature on Norovirus Disease from 1991-2021.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Oluwakemi EbenezerDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Science, Mangosuthu University of Technology, 511 Mangosuthu Highway, Durban 4000, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0003-1054-9665
Nkululeko DamoyiDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Science, Mangosuthu University of Technology, 511 Mangosuthu Highway, Durban 4000, South Africa.
Maryam A JordaanDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Science, Mangosuthu University of Technology, 511 Mangosuthu Highway, Durban 4000, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-3057-123X
Michael ShapiDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Science, Mangosuthu University of Technology, 511 Mangosuthu Highway, Durban 4000, South Africa.
Mangosuthu University of Technology · ZA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) receptor is an attractive target for treating human norovirus (HNV). A computer-aided approach like e-pharmacophore, molecular docking, and single point energy calculations were performed on the compounds retrieved from the Development Therapeutics Program (DTP) AIDS Antiviral Screen Database to identify the antiviral agent that could target the HNV RdRp receptor. Induced-fit docking (IFD) results showed that compounds ZINC1617939, ZINC1642549, ZINC6425208, ZINC5887658 and ZINC32068149 bind with the residues in the active site-B of HNV RdRp receptor via hydrogen bonds, salt bridge, and electrostatic interactions. During the molecular dynamic simulations, compounds ZINC6425208, ZINC5887658 and ZINC32068149 displayed an unbalanced backbone conformation with HNV RdRp protein, while ZINC1617939 and ZINC1642549 maintained stability with the protein backbone when interacting with the residues. Hence, the two new concluding compounds discovered by the computational approach can be used as a chemotype to design promising antiviral agents aimed at HNV RdRp.

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Antiviral AgentsMolecular Docking SimulationMolecular Dynamics SimulationNorovirusRNA-Dependent RNA PolymeraseHumansHydrogen BondingProtein BindingPyrimidinesAntiviral AgentsPyrimidinesRNA-Dependent RNA Polymerasehuman norovirusmolecular dynamicmultiple dockingvirtual screening

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PMID35056692
PMCPMC8777711
OpenAlexW4205869758

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