Indicaxanthin is a bioactive and bioavailable betalain pigment extracted from Opuntia ficus indica fruits. Indicaxanthin has pharmacokinetics proprieties, rarely found in other phytochemicals, and it has been demonstrated that it provides a broad-spectrum of pharmaceutical activity, exerting antiproliferative, anti-inflammatory and neuromodulator effects. The discovery of the Indicaxanthin physiological targets plays an important role in understanding the biochemical mechanism. In this study, combined reverse pharmacophore mapping, reverse docking, and text-based database search identified Inositol Trisphosphate 3-Kinase (ITP3K-A), Glutamate carboxypeptidase II (GCPII), Leukotriene-A4 hydrolase (LTA4H), Phosphoserine phosphatase (HPSP), Phosphodiesterase 4D (PDE4D), AMPA receptor (GluA3 and GluA2 subunits) and Kainate receptor (GluK1 isoform) as potential targets for Indicaxanthin. These targets are implicated in neuromodulation, and inflammatory regulation, normally expressed mostly in the CNS, and expressed (or overexpressed) in cancer tissues (i.e. breast, thyroid and prostate cancer cells). Moreover, this study provides qualitative and quantitative information about dynamic interactions of Indicaxanthin at the binding site of target proteins, through molecular dynamics simulations and MM-GBSA.
Marco Tutone, A.V. (2018). Reverse Screening on Indicaxanthin from Opuntia ficus-indica as natural chemoactive and chemopreventive agent. In Italian-Spanish-Portuguese Joint Meeting in Medicinal Chemistry MedChemSicily2018 - Book of Abstracts.
Reverse Screening on Indicaxanthin from Opuntia ficus-indica as natural chemoactive and chemopreventive agent
Marco Tutone;Anna Maria Almerico
2018-01-01
Abstract
Indicaxanthin is a bioactive and bioavailable betalain pigment extracted from Opuntia ficus indica fruits. Indicaxanthin has pharmacokinetics proprieties, rarely found in other phytochemicals, and it has been demonstrated that it provides a broad-spectrum of pharmaceutical activity, exerting antiproliferative, anti-inflammatory and neuromodulator effects. The discovery of the Indicaxanthin physiological targets plays an important role in understanding the biochemical mechanism. In this study, combined reverse pharmacophore mapping, reverse docking, and text-based database search identified Inositol Trisphosphate 3-Kinase (ITP3K-A), Glutamate carboxypeptidase II (GCPII), Leukotriene-A4 hydrolase (LTA4H), Phosphoserine phosphatase (HPSP), Phosphodiesterase 4D (PDE4D), AMPA receptor (GluA3 and GluA2 subunits) and Kainate receptor (GluK1 isoform) as potential targets for Indicaxanthin. These targets are implicated in neuromodulation, and inflammatory regulation, normally expressed mostly in the CNS, and expressed (or overexpressed) in cancer tissues (i.e. breast, thyroid and prostate cancer cells). Moreover, this study provides qualitative and quantitative information about dynamic interactions of Indicaxanthin at the binding site of target proteins, through molecular dynamics simulations and MM-GBSA.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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