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Docking simulations of steroidal oximes toward Estrogen Receptor alpha. Analysis of their potential anticancer activity
Indexado
WoS WOS:001210065500001
SciELO S0717-97072023000305918
DOI
Año 2023
Tipo artículo de investigación

Citas Totales

Autores Afiliación Chile

Instituciones Chile

% Participación
Internacional

Autores
Afiliación Extranjera

Instituciones
Extranjeras


Abstract



Breast cancer is the most common cause of cancer deaths in women. Normal breast cells and most breast cancer cells have receptors that attach to circulating estrogen and progesterone. Estrogen and progesterone bind to the receptors and may cause cancer cells to proliferate. Drugs, currently being used to treat this disease are not so effective and cause adverse effects. For this reason, the quest of new compounds that bind to the estrogen receptor (ER), activating or inhibiting ERs selectively, is a very active field of research. In this task, molecular docking plays a vital role in drug design, either as a tool in drug discovery and analysis of proteinligand interactions. In this work, 26 steroidal oximes, which are derivatives of diosgenin, were analyzed using docking studies, and compared against the estrogen receptor (ER alpha). The 3D structures of ER alpha were downloaded from Protein Data Bank (3ERT) and optimized using pdb2pqr.py. Modifications in rings A and B were made, and both oxime configurations (E or Z) were considered. Results for hydroximino steroids were compared with those obtained for compounds exhibiting biological activity against this type of cancer, namely, 4-hydroxytamoxifen, diosgenin and 6,23-dihydroximino diosgenin derivative. Molecular docking studies on ER alpha revealed that three mono oximes were found to interact with the protein more efficiently and have the best docking score. Thus, modification of diosgenin with oxime groups could lead to antiproliferative steroidal compounds, and therefore they could be considered for further research and in vivo evaluations for breast cancer treatment and management strategies.

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WOS
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Scopus
Chemistry (All)
SciELO
Exact And Earth Sciences

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Publicaciones WoS (Ediciones: ISSHP, ISTP, AHCI, SSCI, SCI), Scopus, SciELO Chile.

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Autores - Afiliación



Ord. Autor Género Institución - País
1 Alonso, Dayana Mujer Univ Havana - Cuba
University of Havana - Cuba
2 Mesa, Dayana - Univ Havana - Cuba
University of Havana - Cuba
3 Hernandez, Giselle - Univ Havana - Cuba
University of Havana - Cuba
4 Olea, Andres F. - Universidad Autónoma de Chile - Chile
5 Espinoza, Luis - Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María - Chile
6 Coll, Yamilet - Univ Havana - Cuba
University of Havana - Cuba

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Financiamiento



Fuente
FONDECYT

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Agradecimientos



Agradecimiento
The authors are grateful to FONDECYT for financial support of this work under Grant 1130742.

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