Editor-in-Chief
Hatice Kübra Elçioğlu
Vice Editors
Levent Kabasakal
Esra Tatar
Online ISSN
2630-6344
Publisher
Marmara University
Frequency
Bimonthly (Six issues / year)
Abbreviation
J.Res.Pharm.
Former Name
Marmara Pharmaceutical Journal
Journal of Research in Pharmacy
2023 , Vol 27 , Issue 5
In silico investigation of novel 5-benzylidene-2- (arylsulfonylhydrazono)thiazolidine-4-ones as potential inhibitors of mPGES-1 and COX-2
1Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Marmara University, Başıbüyük 34854, İstanbul, Türkiye
DOI :
10.29228/jrp.491
Studies on the development of safe anti-inflammatory agents targeting the inhibition of the mPGES-1
enzyme responsible for PGE2 production are increasing day by day. Moreover, selective inhibition of the mPGES-1
enzyme which modulates the tumor microenvironment and inhibits tumor growth, making the mPGES-1 enzyme one of
the important macromolecular targets in cancer therapy. The aim of our study was to develop selective mPGES-1
inhibitors and to determine their in silico mPGES-1 enzyme inhibition potential. In this study, the binding affinities of 14
novel designed 5-benzylidene-2-(arylsulfonylhydrazono)thiazolidine-4-one derivatives were investigated against
mPGES-1 and COX-2 enzymes by computer-aided molecular modeling studies. Among the designed compounds 1-14, it
was presented with in silico data that compound 8-14, which does not interact with the active site of the COX-2 enzyme,
exhibited selective binding with mPGES-1 enzyme. Moreover, compounds 10-13 have been suggested as selective
mPGES-1 inhibitors with a better in silico binding energy than the first discovered mPGES-1 inhibitor MK886. Finally,
ADMET profiles of compounds 1-14 were calculated. None of these compounds violated the Lipinski and Veber rules.
Keywords :
4-Thiazolidinone; mPGES-1; COX-2; in silico; ADMET