
In silico study of binding affinity of nitrogenous bicyclic heterocycles: fragment-to-fragment approach
Author(s) -
Yevheniia Velihina,
Nataliya Obernikhina,
Stepan Pilyo,
Maryna Kachaeva,
O.D. Kachkovsky,
В. С. Броварец
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
ukrainica bioorganica acta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1814-9766
pISSN - 1814-9758
DOI - 10.15407/bioorganica2020.02.049
Subject(s) - chemistry , pharmacophore , oxazole , pyridine , computational chemistry , stereochemistry , density functional theory , bicyclic molecule , fragment (logic) , amino acid , combinatorial chemistry , medicinal chemistry , biochemistry , computer science , programming language
The binding affinity of model aromatic amino acids and heterocycles and their derivatives condensed with pyridine were investigated in silico and are presented in the framework of fragment-to-fragment approach. The presented model describes interaction between pharmacophores and biomolecules. Scrupulous data analysis shows that expansion of the π-electron system by heterocycles annelation causes the shifting up of high energy levels, while the appearance of new the dicoordinated nitrogen atom is accompanied by decreasing of the donor-acceptor properties. Density Functional Theory (DFT) wB97XD/6-31(d,p)/calculations of π-complexes of the heterocycles 1-3 with model fragments of aromatic amino acids, which were formed by π-stack interaction, show an increase in the stabilization energy of π-complexes during the moving from phenylalanine to tryptophan. DFT calculation of pharmacophore complexes with model proton-donor amino acid by the hydrogen bonding mechanism (H-B complex) shows that stabilization energy (DE) increases from monoheterocycles to their condensed derivatives. The expansion of the π-electron system by introducing phenyl radicals to the oxazole cycle as reported earlier [18] leads to a decrease in the stabilization energy of the [Pharm-BioM] complexes in comparison with the annelated oxazole by the pyridine cycle.