Abstract
Natural products found a wide use in folk medicine. Presently, when routine development of new drugs faced a considerable challenge, they become an inspiration and valuable source in drugs discovery. Rather complex and diverse chemical structures of natural compounds provide a basis for modulation of different biological targets. Natural compounds exhibit a multitargeted action that may lead to additive/synergistic or antagonistic effects. Rational design of more safe and potent pharmaceuticals requires an estimation of probable multiple actions of natural products. Our software PASS can perform such estimation. It predicts with reasonable accuracy over 3500 pharmacotherapeutic effects, mechanisms of action, interaction with the metabolic system, and specific toxicity for drug-like molecules on the basis of their structural formulae. We analyzed PASS predictions utilizing PharmaExpert, which performs selection of compounds with multiple mechanisms of action, analysis of activity-activity relationships and drug-drug interactions. The paper describes an application of PASS and PharmaExpert to the evaluation of biological activity of natural compounds including marine sponge alkaloids, triterpenoids of lupane group, and their derivatives. Proposed computer-aided methods can generate combinatorial libraries of macrolides. They help to select the most promising pharmaceutical leads with the required properties. Case study, based on the analysis of biological activity spectra predicted for St Johns Wort constituents, clearly demonstrates capabilities of computational methods in the evaluation of multitargeted actions, additive/synergistic and/or antagonistic effects of natural products.
Keywords: Natural products, computational evaluation, biological activity spectra prediction, PASS, multitargeted action, drug-drug interaction, marine sponge alkaloids, triterpenoids, St John's Wort
Current Pharmaceutical Design
Title: Multi-Targeted Natural Products Evaluation Based on Biological Activity Prediction with PASS
Volume: 16 Issue: 15
Author(s): Alexey Lagunin, Dmitry Filimonov and Vladimir Poroikov
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Keywords: Natural products, computational evaluation, biological activity spectra prediction, PASS, multitargeted action, drug-drug interaction, marine sponge alkaloids, triterpenoids, St John's Wort
Abstract: Natural products found a wide use in folk medicine. Presently, when routine development of new drugs faced a considerable challenge, they become an inspiration and valuable source in drugs discovery. Rather complex and diverse chemical structures of natural compounds provide a basis for modulation of different biological targets. Natural compounds exhibit a multitargeted action that may lead to additive/synergistic or antagonistic effects. Rational design of more safe and potent pharmaceuticals requires an estimation of probable multiple actions of natural products. Our software PASS can perform such estimation. It predicts with reasonable accuracy over 3500 pharmacotherapeutic effects, mechanisms of action, interaction with the metabolic system, and specific toxicity for drug-like molecules on the basis of their structural formulae. We analyzed PASS predictions utilizing PharmaExpert, which performs selection of compounds with multiple mechanisms of action, analysis of activity-activity relationships and drug-drug interactions. The paper describes an application of PASS and PharmaExpert to the evaluation of biological activity of natural compounds including marine sponge alkaloids, triterpenoids of lupane group, and their derivatives. Proposed computer-aided methods can generate combinatorial libraries of macrolides. They help to select the most promising pharmaceutical leads with the required properties. Case study, based on the analysis of biological activity spectra predicted for St Johns Wort constituents, clearly demonstrates capabilities of computational methods in the evaluation of multitargeted actions, additive/synergistic and/or antagonistic effects of natural products.
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Lagunin Alexey, Filimonov Dmitry and Poroikov Vladimir, Multi-Targeted Natural Products Evaluation Based on Biological Activity Prediction with PASS, Current Pharmaceutical Design 2010; 16 (15) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/138161210791164063
DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/138161210791164063 |
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