Benedetta Morabito
Computational evaluation of a panel of combretastatin compounds as warheads for PROTAC design targeting β tubulin isoforms.
Rel. Jacek Adam Tuszynski, Marco Agostino Deriu. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Biomedical Engineering, 2022
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Abstract
A new strategy for chemotherapy-based therapy of various types of cancer is based on the design of PROTAC molecules, which are hybrid chemical structures aiming to degrade over-expressed proteins via ubiquitination pathways in cancer cells. They consist of a warhead that binds to an overexpressed protein marked for degradation, a linker and a compound that binds to an E3 ligase enzyme. A panel of recently synthesized combretastatin derivatives with attractive pharmacological properties have been investigated in this project. They were docked to the main β tubulin isotypes and their binding affinities were compared. The ADMET properties of these compounds were analyzed and used to search for a correlation with the biological activity of these derivatives, which were previously tested in vitro to assess their cytotoxicity.
The best linear correlation was observed between the binding energy obtained by docking and the IC50 obtained experimentally
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