Computational insight into the anticholinesterase activities and electronic properties of physostigmine analogs.

Abstract:

:Aim: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is known to be themajor cause of dementia among the elderly. The structural properties and binding interactions of the AD drug physostigmine (-)-phy, and its analogues (-)-hex and (-)-phe and (+)-phe, were examined, as well as their impact on the conformational changes of two different AD target enzymes AChE and BChE. Materials & methods: The conformational changes were studied using molecular dynamics and structural properties using Quantum mechanics. Results & conclusions: The binding free energy (ΔGbind) and the change in the free energy surface (FES) computed from the funnel metadynamics (FMD) simulation, both support the idea that inhibitors (-)-phe and (-)-hex have better binding activities toward enzyme AChE, and that (-)-phe is stronger in binding than the present AD drug (-)-phy.

journal_name

Future Med Chem

authors

Adeniyi AA,Conradie J

doi

10.4155/fmc-2018-0421

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2019-08-01 00:00:00

pages

1907-1928

issue

15

eissn

1756-8919

issn

1756-8927

journal_volume

11

pub_type

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