4th WCSET-2015 at Japan
Applied Sciences and Engineering:
Title:
Drugability of secondary metabolites from selected
spices of Zingiberaceae
Authors:
S. Balaji, B. Chempakam
Abstract: The
present study employs a cheminformatics approach to
screen the diverse array of secondary metabolites from
selected spices such as cardamom, ginger and turmeric
belonging to the family Zingiberaceae. One thousand six
hundred and sixty four (1664) chemical descriptors were
calculated for 404 secondary metabolites. They were
sieved and funneled through various filters, passed
through all the in silico checks and finally selected
only 13 compounds out of 404 compounds belonging to the
family Zingiberaceae. Sieving 200 compounds from
turmeric yielded only 11 compounds, whereas in case of
cardamom and ginger it is only three out of 204
compounds. The major predicted activity of the drugable
candidates belongs to bisabolane type sesquiterpinoids
that are inhibitory to squalene-hopene cyclase (SHC) or
oxidosqualene cyclase (OSC), an attractive target for
anticholesteremic drugs. The present work ensures the
success of discovery leads from spices to drug
development.
Keywords: Drugability,
ADMET, Mutagenicity, Carcinogenicity, Drug development
Pages:
029-031