Assessing the pharmacokinetic profile of the CamMedNP natural products database: an in silico approach

Organic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters - Tập 3 - Trang 1-9 - 2013
Fidele Ntie-Kang1,2,3, James A Mbah4, Lydia L Lifongo2, Luc C Owono Owono1,5, Eugene Megnassan6, Luc Meva'a Mbaze7, Philip N Judson8, Wolfgang Sippl3, Simon MN Efange4
1CEPAMOQ, Faculty of Science, University of Douala, Douala, Cameroon
2Chemical and Bioactivity Information Centre, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon
3Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
4Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon
5Laboratory for Simulations and Biomolecular Physics, Advanced Teachers Training College, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon
6Laboratory of Fundamental and Applied Physics, University of Abobo-Adjame, Cote d'Ivoire, Africa
7Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Douala, Douala, Cameroon
8Chemical and Bioactivity Information Centre, Leeds, UK

Tóm tắt

Drug metabolism and pharmacokinetic (DMPK) assessment has come to occupy a place of interest during the early stages of drug discovery today. Computer-based methods are slowly gaining ground in this area and are often used as initial tools to eliminate compounds likely to present uninteresting pharmacokinetic profiles and unacceptable levels of toxicity from the list of potential drug candidates, hence cutting down the cost of the discovery of a drug. In the present study, we present an in silico assessment of the DMPK profile of our recently published natural products database of 1,859 unique compounds derived from 224 species of medicinal plants from the Cameroonian forest. In this analysis, we have used 46 computed physico-chemical properties or molecular descriptors to predict the absorption, distribution, metabolism and elimination (ADME) of the compounds. This survey demonstrated that about 50% of the compounds within the Cameroonian medicinal plant and natural products (CamMedNP) database are compliant, having properties which fall within the range of ADME properties of >95% of currently known drugs, while >73% of the compounds have ≤2 violations. Moreover, about 72% of the compounds within the corresponding ‘drug-like’ subset showed compliance. In addition to the previously verified levels of ‘drug-likeness’ and the diversity and the wide range of measured biological activities, the compounds in the CamMedNP database show interesting DMPK profiles and, hence, could represent an important starting point for hit/lead discovery from medicinal plants in Africa.

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