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Synthesis, β-glucuronidase inhibition and molecular docking studies of hybrid bisindole-thiosemicarbazides analogs

  • Bioorg Chem. 2016 Oct;68:56-63. doi: 10.1016/j.bioorg.2016.07.008.
Muhammad Taha 1,  Nor Hadiani Ismail 2,  Syahrul Imran 2,  Fazal Rahim 3,  Abdul Wadood 4,  Huma Khan 4,  Hayat Ullah 3,  Uzma Salar 5,  Khalid Mohammed Khan 5
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Atta-ur-Rahman Institute for Natural Product Discovery, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Puncak Alam 42300, Malaysia; Faculty of Applied Science, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam 40450, Selangor D.E., Malaysia. Electronic address: taha_hej@yahoo.com.
  • 2 Atta-ur-Rahman Institute for Natural Product Discovery, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Puncak Alam 42300, Malaysia; Faculty of Applied Science, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam 40450, Selangor D.E., Malaysia.
  • 3 Department of Chemistry, Hazara University, Mansehra-21300, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
  • 4 Department of Biochemistry, Computational Medicinal Chemistry Laboratory, UCSS, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Pakistan.
  • 5 H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry, International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences, University of Karachi, Karachi 75270, Pakistan.
PMID: 27454618 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioorg.2016.07.008
Abstract

Hybrid bisindole-thiosemicarbazides analogs (1-18) were synthesized and screened for β-glucuronidase activity. All compounds showed varied degree of β-glucuronidase inhibitory potential when compared with standard d-saccharic acid 1,4-lactone (IC50=48.4±1.25μM). Compounds 4, 7, 9, 6, 5, 12, 17 and 18 showed exceptional β-glucuronidase inhibition with IC50 values ranging from 0.1 to 5.7μM. Compounds 1, 3, 8, 16, 13, 2 and 14 also showed better activities than standard with IC50 values ranging from 7.12 to 15.0μM. The remaining compounds 10, 11, and 15 showed good inhibitory potential with IC50 values 33.2±0.75, 21.4±0.30 and 28.12±0.25μM respectively. Molecular docking studies were carried out to confirm the binding interaction of the compounds.

Keywords

Bisindole; Docking studies; Synthesis; β-glucuronidase.

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