Asian Journal of Research in Chemistry
  • Year: 2024
  • Volume: 17
  • Issue: 1

Virtual Screening and Pharmacophore Modeling for discovery of Biologically Active Natural Products as Inhibitors of Odorant-binding Proteins

  • Author:
  • Sathish Kumar Mittapalli1,*, J N Narendra Sharath Chandra2, Jay Prakash Soni1, Ram Babu Tripathi1, Iffath Rizwana3
  • Total Page Count: 8
  • Published Online: Apr 29, 2024
  • Page Number: 17 to 24

1Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Amity Institute of Pharmacy, Amity University, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India474020

2Dean, School of PharmacyG H Raisoni University, Amravati, Maharashtra, India444701

3Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Deccan School of Pharmacy, Nampally, Hyderabad, Telangana, India500012

*Corresponding Author E-mail: sattisuma@gmail.com

Online Published on 29 April, 2024.

Abstract

More than 100 nations in Africa, the Americas and the Eastern Mediterranean have endemic dengue and malaria, and these bites have the potential to have inflammatory or infectious local or systemic effects. The mosquito repellents from various sources were examined and plant repellents, researchers frequently exaggerate toxicity of the mentioned compound, alleging that it poses a threat to human health or even the environment and reported by recent studies. The aim of the research article, the historical developmental strategies of synthetics and natural and those acts on certain targets as repellent property, target discovery aims to identify and validate appropriate pharmacological targets for therapeutic interventions and establishment of correlations between the molecule and its potency as repellent using various physicochemical parameters and in silico studies. From this study proved that some of the natural compounds were potent in comparison with the some of the standard insect repellents and the paradigm offers a wide variety of prospects that will fasten the lead molecular modifications influences the novel targets and ultimately result in the optimization of the molecular properties by considering the all the methodologies leads to design novel molecules.

Keywords

Mosquito repellent, Pharmacophore modelling, Biochemical target, Binding score, Odorant-binding proteins, Potent natural repellents