Mechanistic insights into mode of action of potent natural antagonists of BACE-1 for checking Alzheimer鈥檚 plaque pathology

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• 作者：Jaspreet Kaur Dhanjal ; Sukriti Goyal ; Sudhanshu Sharma ; Rabia Hamid ; Abhinav Grover
• 关键词：BACE-1 ; Alzheimer&rsquo ; s ; Natural compound ; High throughput virtual screening ; Docking ; Molecular dynamics simulation
• 刊名：Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
• 出版年：17 January, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：443
• 期：3
• 页码：1054-1059
• 全文大小：2168 K

文摘

Alzheimer鈥檚 is a neurodegenerative disorder resulting in memory loss and decline in cognitive abilities. Accumulation of extracellular beta amyloidal plaques is one of the major pathology associated with this disease. 尾-Secretase or BACE-1 performs the initial and rate limiting step of amyloidic pathway in which 37-43 amino acid long peptides are generated which aggregate to form plaques. Inhibition of this enzyme offers a viable prospect to check the growth of these plaques. Numerous efforts have been made in recent years for the generation of BACE-1 inhibitors but many of them failed during the preclinical or clinical trials due to drug related or drug induced toxicity. In the present work, we have used computational methods to screen a large dataset of natural compounds to search for small molecules having BACE-1 inhibitory activity with low toxicity to normal cells. Molecular dynamics simulations were performed to analyze molecular interactions between the screened compounds and the active residues of the enzyme. Herein, we report two natural compounds of inhibitory nature active against 尾-secretase enzyme of amyloidic pathway and are potent lead molecules against Alzheimer鈥檚 disease.