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Identification of Therapeutic Leads from Ficus hispida Fruit Phytochemicals against Prostate Cancer Using Pharmacoinformatic and Molecular Dynamics Simulation Approach

Rahman, M. H.; Rahman, M. A.; Zahan, M. S.; Biswas, P.; Islam, S.; Reshad, R. A. I.; Sohag, A. A. M.; Gupta, B.; Islam, R.; Hannan, M. A.; Kim, W.; Moon, S.; Uddin, M. J.; Kim, B.

2023-06-07 bioinformatics
10.1101/2023.06.04.543596 bioRxiv
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Prostate cancer is one of the leading causes of death and the most common cancer type in men. In this study, potential leads from the phytochemicals of Ficus hispida fruit were screened using in silico tools against androgen receptor (AR), a known target for prostate cancer. PASS online and ADMET tools were used to screen specific phytochemicals that are relevant to prostate cancer treatment and have drug-like properties. Of 13, a total of 10 phytochemicals passed PASS online and ADMET screening. Next, a total of three phytochemicals, including nodakenetin (CID: 26305), isowigtheone hydrate (CID: 66728267), and 7-hydroxycoumarin (CID: 5281426) were selected based on their docking scores (-9.946 to -7.653 kcal/mol) and relevance to selective bioactivity. The MD simulation further confirmed the binding stability of these three phytochemicals with their target AR protein and determined that the main amino acid residues mainly responsible for this stability including RMSD, RMSF, and post simulation binding free energies. These findings suggest that these three phytochemicals of Ficus hispida fruit can further be developed as prospective therapeutics against prostate cancer.

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