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Drug Repurposing Investigation for Combating Ebola Virus Disease: Database Mining, Docking Calculations, Molecular Dynamics, and Density Functional Theory Study.

Alaa H M Abdelrahman, Gamal A H Mekhemer, Peter A Sidhom, Mohamed A El-Tayeb, Shahzeb Khan, Mahmoud A A Ibrahim

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Alaa H M AbdelrahmanComputational Chemistry Laboratory, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Minia University, Minia, 61519, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0003-3527-0126
Gamal A H MekhemerComputational Chemistry Laboratory, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Minia University, Minia, 61519, Egypt.
Peter A SidhomDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tanta University, Tanta, 31527, Egypt.
Mohamed A El-TayebDepartment of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2455, Riyadh, 11451, Saudi Arabia.
Shahzeb KhanCentre for Pharmaceutical Engineering Science, Faculty of Life Science, School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford, BD7 1DP, UK.
Mahmoud A A IbrahimComputational Chemistry Laboratory, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Minia University, Minia, 61519, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0003-4819-2040

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Ongoing Research Funding Program ORF-2025-678
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ebola virus (EBOV), one of the deadliest diseases, is responsible for infecting individuals with hemorrhagic fever syndrome, which remains an ongoing worldwide health concern. The extremely deadly nature and virulence of EBOV illness illuminate the imperative need to evolve effective curative agents. Viral protien (VP35) acts as an Achilles heel for EBOV reproduction and also interacts with numerous human proteins, which leads to impairing the immune system. Herein, the DrugBank database, containing >14000 investigational and approved drugs, is mined to hunt prospective inhibitors toward VP35 utilizing various computational approaches. Docking technique performance is initially validated to predict the VP35-inhibitor binding pose upon the accessible experimental data. Molecular dynamics simulations (MDS) are then conducted in triplicate on the top potent drug candidates, followed by binding energy (ΔG

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Antiviral AgentsDensity Functional TheoryDrug RepositioningEbolavirusHemorrhagic Fever, EbolaMolecular Dynamics SimulationViral Regulatory and Accessory ProteinsData MiningHumansMolecular Docking SimulationAntiviral AgentsViral Regulatory and Accessory ProteinsVP35 protein, filovirusdensity functional theory computationsdocking calculationsdrug repurposingEbola virus VP35molecular dynamics simulations

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PMID40891583
PMCPMC12680584

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