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5-Lipoxygenase (5-LOX) is a key enzyme involved in the biosynthesis of pro-inflammatory leukotrienes, leading to asthma. Developing potent 5-LOX inhibitors especially, natural product based ones, are highly attractive. Coumaperine, a natural product found in white pepper and its derivatives were herein developed as 5-LOX inhibitors. We have synthesized twenty four derivatives, characterized and evaluated their 5-LOX inhibition potential. Coumaperine derivatives substituted with multiple hydroxy and multiple methoxy groups exhibited best 5-LOX inhibition. CP-209, a catechol type dihydroxyl derivative and CP-262-F2, a vicinal trihydroxyl derivative exhibited, 82.7% and 82.5% inhibition of 5-LOX respectively at 20 µM. Their IC50 values are 2.1 ± 0.2 µM and 2.3 ± 0.2 µM respectively, and are comparable to zileuton, IC50 = 1.4 ± 0.2 µM. CP-155, a methylenedioxy derivative (a natural product) and CP-194, a 2,4,6-trimethoxy derivative showed 76.0% and 77.1% inhibition of 5-LOX respectively at 20 µM. Antioxidant study revealed that CP-209 and 262-F2 (at 20 µM) scavenged DPPH radical by 76.8% and 71.3% respectively. On the other hand, CP-155 and 194 showed very poor DPPH radical scavenging activity. Pseudo peroxidase assay confirmed that the mode of action of CP-209 and 262-F2 were by redox process, similar to zileuton, affecting the oxidation state of the metal ion in the enzyme. On the contrary, CP-155 and 194 probably act through some other mechanism which does not involve the disruption of the oxidation state of the metal in the enzyme. Molecular docking of CP-155 and 194 to the active site of 5-LOX and binding energy calculation suggested that they are non-competitive inhibitors. The In-Silico ADME/TOX analysis shows the active compounds (CP-155, 194, 209 and 262-F2) are with good drug likeliness and reduced toxicity compared to existing drug. These studies indicate that there is a great potential for coumaperine derivatives to be developed as anti-inflammatory drug.

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VIT Unitversity

Department of Integrative Biology

School of Bio Sciences and Technology

Vellore Campus

Chemistry

School of Advanced Sciences

Chennai Campus

Department of Control and Automation

School of Electrical Engineering

Department Of Biotechnology

Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry

Design, synthesis and identification of novel coumaperine derivatives for inhibition of human 5-LOX: Antioxidant, pseudoperoxidase and docking studies

N-Cinnamoyl phenothiazines were synthesized and characterized by various spectroscopic techniques including vibrational, nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectrometry. The potential applications of these compounds as antioxidants and antibacterials were evaluated. Compound 2 with –NO2 substituted cinnamoyl moiety in the phenothiazine ring nitrogen showed better antioxidant activity (77.8 μM for hydroxyl radicals and 85.0 μM for diphenyl picrylhydrazyl radicals). A moderate antibacterial activity (202-330 μM) was observed for all the derivatives of phenothiazine against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, while the parent phenothiazine did not show any inhibitory activity up to 500 μM, indicating that the observed activity could be induced by the added cinnamoyl moiety. Nucleic acid and protein binding affinities were investigated for their applications as biomolecular probes. Both experimental and computational docking studies revealed an intercalative mode of binding with nucleic acids and 1:1 binding to bovine serum albumin. © 2018 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH &amp; Co. KGaA, Weinheim

Department of Chemistry

ChemistrySelect

Biological Evaluation of Synthesized N‐Cinnamoyl Phenothiazine Derivatives

Department of Biotechnology

World University root node

Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling

Drug Resistance Mechanism of L10F, L10F/N88S and L90M mutations in CRF01_AE HIV-1 protease: Molecular dynamics simulations and binding free energy calculations

On treatment of copper(II) acetate with aryl hydrazone ligands, four new solid derivatives of copper(II) were produced in appreciable yields. Various characterization techniques including infrared, UV–visible, NMR, electron paramagnetic resonance and mass spectroscopies, elemental analysis, scanning electron microscopy, powder X-ray diffraction and thermogravimetric analysis revealed a tetra-coordination in all the mononuclear crystalline complexes with high thermal stability. Further, significant interaction of these novel complexes with calf thymus DNA via intercalative mode of binding was revealed by electronic absorption spectroscopy. The chemical nuclease activity of the complexes on pBR322 DNA was investigated in the presence and absence of oxidizing agent (H2O2). A potent nuclease activity was observed only in the presence of H2O2. Further, antibacterial and antifungal studies of the new ligands and complexes revealed that the latter possessed comparatively better activity. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley &amp; Sons, Ltd.

Applied Organometallic Chemistry

Synthesis, characterization and biological applications of new copper(II) complexes of aryl hydrazones

A series of eight new copper (II) complexes of types [Cu(HL1)(B)] (4a-4d) and [Cu(HL2)(B)] (4e-4h), where HL1 is N-(2-hydroxy-1-naphthalidene)-2-aminophenol, HL2 is N-(2-hydroxy-1-naphthylidene)-2-mercaptoaniline and B is N, N donor ligands viz bipyridyl (bpy), 1,10-phenanthroline (phen), dipyridoquinoxaline (dpq) and dipyridophenazine (dppz) have been synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis as well as by spectroscopic techniques (IR, UV, ESI mass and EPR spectra). The DNA-binding properties of these copper complexes (4a-4h) have been investigated by electronic absorption, viscosity measurements and docking analyses. The results obtained indicated that the complexes get bonded with DNA via an intercalation binding mode with an intrinsic binding constant, Kb (1.116 ± 0.21 to 7.227 ± 0.21) × 104 M-1. The antimicrobial activity assays with the Schiff's bases and their heteroleptic copper (II) complexes of 4a and 4b exhibited profound activity against gram positive bacteria, gram negative bacteria and fungi. Further, complexes 4d and 4h displayed significant cytotoxicity when examined in vitro on a panel of cancerous cell line - human liver cancer cell line - HepG-2 cells (IC50 = 40.82 and 29.74 μg/ml). © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Department of Design and Automation

School of Mechanical Engineering

Inorganica Chimica Acta

Synthesis, spectroscopic characterization and in vitro studies of new heteroleptic copper (II) complexes derived from 2-hydroxy napthaldehyde Schiff’s bases and N, N donor ligands: Antimicrobial, DNA binding and cytotoxic investigations

The photochemical synthesis of a series of 2,3-dihydroquinazolin-4(1H)-ones were evaluated under the irradiation of visible light ({\textgreater}390 nm). The effect of the visible light mediated synthesis was carried out in the presence/absence of solvent. The effect of solvent plays a key role in the synthesis was evidenced through the formation of product in short duration. The solvatochromic effects of the fluorescent compounds (3a-k) were studied with respect to the solvents of increasing polarity (DCM {\textless} methanol {\textless} DMF {\textless} DMSO). The determination of in vitro anti-inflammatory activity of the compounds (3a-k) by the inhibition of bovine serum albumin (BSA) denaturation and 2,2-di(4-t-octylphenyl)-1-picrylhydrazyl (DOPPH•) radical scavenging consequence of the compounds (3a-k) were determined by spectroscopic technique. The compound 3j in DMSO exhibited extreme high quantum yield. The compound 3i was found to be superior both in the efficiency of the anti-inflammatory activity and radical scavenging ability.

Department of Software and Systems Engineering

School of Information Technology and Engineering

Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology

2,3-Dihydroquinazolin-4(1H)-ones: Visible light mediated synthesis, solvatochromism and biological activity

Anin vitroantidiabetic activity onα-amylase andα–glucosidase activity of novel 10-chloro-4-(2-chlorophenyl)-12-phenyl-5,6-dihydropyrimido[4,5-a]acridin-2-amines (3a–3f) were evaluated. Structures of the synthesized molecules were studied by FT-IR,1H NMR,13C NMR, EI-MS, and single crystal X-ray structural analysis data. Anin silico molecular docking was performed on synthesized molecules (3a–3f). Overall studies indicate that compound3eis a promising compound leading to the development of selective inhibition ofα-amylase andα-glucosidase.

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BioMed Research International

In SilicoMolecular Docking andIn VitroAntidiabetic Studies of Dihydropyrimido[4,5-a]acridin-2-amines