Fluorine Atoms on C6H5-Corrole Affect the Interaction with Mpro and PLpro Proteases of SARS-CoV-2: Molecular Docking and 2D-QSAR Approaches
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Published:2022-09-19
Issue:18
Volume:23
Page:10936
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ISSN:1422-0067
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Container-title:International Journal of Molecular Sciences
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language:en
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Short-container-title:IJMS
Author:
Chaves Otávio AugustoORCID,
Rodrigues-Santos Cláudio Eduardo,
Echevarria Áurea,
Sacramento Carolina Q.ORCID,
Fintelman-Rodrigues NataliaORCID,
Temerozo Jairo R.ORCID,
Castro-Faria-Neto Hugo Caire,
Souza Thiago Moreno Lopes e
Abstract
The chymotrypsin-like cysteine protease (3CLpro, also known as main protease—Mpro) and papain-like protease (PLpro) of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) have been used as the main targets for screening potential synthetic inhibitors for posterior in vitro evaluation of the most promising compounds. In this sense, the present work reports for the first time the evaluation of the interaction between Mpro/PLpro with a series of 17 porphyrin analogues-corrole (C1), meso-aryl-corrole (C2), and 15 fluorinated-meso-aryl-corrole derivatives (C3–C17) via molecular docking calculations. The impact of fluorine atoms on meso-aryl-corrole structure was also evaluated in terms of binding affinity and physical-chemical properties by two-dimensional quantitative structure–activity relationship (2D-QSAR). The presence of phenyl moieties increased the binding capacity of corrole for both proteases and depending on the position of fluorine atoms might impact positively or negatively the binding capacity. For Mpro the para-fluorine atoms might decrease drastically the binding capacity, while for PLpro there was a certain increase in the binding affinity of fluorinated-corroles with the increase of fluorine atoms into meso-aryl-corrole structure mainly from tri-fluorinated insertions. The 2D-QSAR models indicated two separated regions of higher and lower affinity for Mpro:C1–C17 based on dual electronic parameters (σI and σR), as well as one model was obtained with a correlation between the docking score value of Mpro:C2–C17 and the corresponding 13C nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) chemical shifts of the sp2 carbon atoms (δC-1 and δC-2) of C2–C17. Overall, the fluorinated-meso-aryl-corrole derivatives showed favorable in silico parameters as potential synthetic compounds for future in vitro assays on the inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 replication.
Funder
National Council for Scientific and Technological Development
Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Coordenação de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
Subject
Inorganic Chemistry,Organic Chemistry,Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,Computer Science Applications,Spectroscopy,Molecular Biology,General Medicine,Catalysis
Cited by
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