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ArticleFrontiers in chemistry2025

Neuraminidase as a novel therapeutic management strategy for Alzheimer's disease: evidenced through molecular docking, molecular dynamic simulation and gene expression analysis.

Sami I Alzarea, Omar Awad Alsaidan, Hassan H Alhassan, Abdulaziz Ibrahim Alzarea, Tariq G Alsahli, Metab Alharbi, Muhammad Afzal, Mohammad Jaffar Sadiq Mantargi

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Sami I AlzareaDepartment of Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, Jouf University, Sakaka, Al-Jouf, Saudi Arabia.
Omar Awad AlsaidanDepartment of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Jouf University, Sakaka, Al-Jouf, Saudi Arabia.
Hassan H AlhassanDepartment of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Jouf University, Sakaka, Al-Jouf, Saudi Arabia.
Abdulaziz Ibrahim AlzareaDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Jouf University, Sakaka, Al-Jouf, Saudi Arabia.
Tariq G AlsahliDepartment of Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, Jouf University, Sakaka, Al-Jouf, Saudi Arabia.
Metab AlharbiDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Muhammad AfzalDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmacy Program, Batterjee Medical College, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Mohammad Jaffar Sadiq MantargiDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmacy Program, Batterjee Medical College, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

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Introduction: Neuraminidase in humans is studied to see how well repurposed oseltamivir works for treating Alzheimer's disease (AD) using methods like molecular docking, molecular dynamic (MD) simulation, and gene expression analysis. Gene enrichment analysis was also studied to understand the behaviour of neuraminidases in humans. Methods: Molecular docking was done using oseltamivir and the neuraminidase proteins with the Results: The molecular docking showed a strong connection between oseltamivir and neuraminidase (-6.5 kcal/mol), acetylcholinesterase (-7.9 kcal/mol), CDKs (-6.5 kcal/mol), and GSKs (-6.6 kcal/mol), interacting with different amino acids in the protein sequences. MD simulations showed a strong interaction between the ligand and neuraminidase, with stable measurements indicating that both the protein and ligand remained consistent in size and energy, which is better explained through the results of MM_PBSA and MM_GBSA analysis of the complex, resulting in the ΔE_vdW, ΔE_elec, ΔG_polar, ΔG_nonpolar, ΔG_gas, (ΔE_vdW + ΔEEL), ΔG_solvation: (ΔG_polar + ΔG_nonpolar) and ΔG_bind: total energies suggesting the complex stayed stable in conditions similar to those resembling natural cell. The gene expression analysis expressed TUBB3 (formation of beta-tubulin), FABP3 (regulates alpha-synuclein uptake in dopaminergic neurons), and CALM1 (calcium signal transduction pathway) to be highly upregulated in the given conditions with kinase binding (p = 0.0006541) and protein phosphatase regulatory activity (p = 0.001357) were highly upregulated, implicating their importance in the AD. Discussion: The study ends on a hopeful note for using oseltamivir to treat neurological diseases, but it suggests that future research should include a solid cell line study, an

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Alzheimer’s diseasegene enrichment analysisgene expression analysisinsilico studymolecular dockingmolecular dynamic simulationneuraminidaseoseltamivir

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