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Integration of virtual screening of phytoecdysteroids as androgen receptor inhibitors by 3D-QSAR Model, CoMFA, molecular docking and ADMET analysis: An extensive and interactive machine learning

Shafiq N, Zameer R, Attiq N, Moveed A, Farooq A, Imtiaz F, Parveen S, Rashid M et al.

The Journal of steroid biochemistry and molecular biology, 2024

Abstract

Ecdysteroids, a class of naturally isolated polyhydroxylated sterols, stands at a very good place in the pharmaceutical industry from their medicinal point of views like anti-inflammatory, neuroprotective, anti-microbial, anti-diabetic, antioxidant, and anti-tumor effects. Due to their excellent antioxidant and anti-microbial potential, ecdysteroids have extensive use in skin products, especially derma creams. To monitor the best anti-acne phytoecdysteroids, here made use of different computational approaches, by using the rapid, easy, cost-effective and high throughput method to screen and identify ecdysteroids as androgen receptor inhibitors. 3D-QSAR study was carried out on a dataset of ecdysteroids by using comparative molecular field analysis (CoMFA) to determine the factors responsible for the activity of compounds. Statistically a cross-validated (q2) 0.1457 and regression coefficient (r2) 0.9713 indicated the best model. Contour map results showed the influence of steric effect to enhance activity. A molecular docking analysis was done to further find out the binding sites and their anti-acne potential against three crystal structured macromolecules (PDB ID: 2REQ, 2BAC, 4EM0). Docking results were further evaluated by prime MM-GBSA analysis and findings confirmed the accuracy. Toxicity by ADMET assessment was carried out and M2 was found as lead druglike with best anti-acne activity against Propionium acnes GehA lipase bacteria after passing all filters. This…

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