Pharmacophore identification, virtual screening and biological evaluation of prenylated flavonoids derivatives as PKB/Akt1 inhibitors
作者:Xiaowu Dong、Xinglu Zhou、Hui Jing、Jianzhong Chen、Tao Liu、Bo Yang、Qiaojun He、Yongzhou Hu
DOI:10.1016/j.ejmech.2011.10.006
日期:2011.12
A total of 24 well-defined PKB/Akt1 inhibitors were used to generate pharmacophore models applying Catalyst/HypoGen program. The best ranked model (Hypo_1) was then validated by cost analysis, prediction capability, Cat-Scramble and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) studies. Then, pharmacophore-based virtual screening combined with docking study was performed to search an in-house compound database. Nine preferable hits 75-80, HTS-02143, BTB-14740 and HTS-08006 were prepared and biologically evaluated. Several compounds were identified as good PKB/Akt1 inhibitors, suggesting that Hypo_l would be reliable and useful in virtual screening. Flow cytometric and western blotting analysis on compounds 79 and 80 further demonstrated that the inhibition of phosphorylation of PKB/Akt1 and its substrates (such as GSK beta) was responsible for their cytotoxic activities. (C) 2011 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.