A Structure- and Ligand-Based Virtual Screening of a Database of “Small” Marine Natural Products for the Identification of “Blue” Sigma-2 Receptor Ligands
Sigma receptors are a fascinating receptor protein class whose ligands are actually under clinical evaluation for the modulation of opioid analgesia and their use as positron emission tomography radiotracers. In particular, peculiar biological and therapeutic functions are associated with the sigma-...
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doaj-6ad8c5feaeb4495eac4920be40ab81822020-11-25T00:49:11ZengMDPI AGMarine Drugs1660-33972018-10-01161038410.3390/md16100384md16100384A Structure- and Ligand-Based Virtual Screening of a Database of “Small” Marine Natural Products for the Identification of “Blue” Sigma-2 Receptor LigandsGiuseppe Floresta0Emanuele Amata1Carla Barbaraci2Davide Gentile3Rita Turnaturi4Agostino Marrazzo5Antonio Rescifina6Department of Drug Sciences, University of Catania, V.le A. Doria, 95125 Catania, ItalyDepartment of Chemical Sciences, University of Catania, V.le A. Doria, 95125 Catania, ItalyDepartment of Drug Sciences, University of Catania, V.le A. Doria, 95125 Catania, ItalyDepartment of Drug Sciences, University of Catania, V.le A. Doria, 95125 Catania, ItalyDepartment of Drug Sciences, University of Catania, V.le A. Doria, 95125 Catania, ItalyDepartment of Drug Sciences, University of Catania, V.le A. Doria, 95125 Catania, ItalyDepartment of Drug Sciences, University of Catania, V.le A. Doria, 95125 Catania, ItalySigma receptors are a fascinating receptor protein class whose ligands are actually under clinical evaluation for the modulation of opioid analgesia and their use as positron emission tomography radiotracers. In particular, peculiar biological and therapeutic functions are associated with the sigma-2 (σ2) receptor. The σ2 receptor ligands determine tumor cell death through apoptotic and non-apoptotic pathways, and the overexpression of σ2 receptors in several tumor cell lines has been well documented, with significantly higher levels in proliferating tumor cells compared to quiescent ones. This acknowledged feature has found practical application in the development of cancer cell tracers and for ligand-targeting therapy. In this context, the development of new ligands that target the σ2 receptors is beneficial for those diseases in which this protein is involved. In this paper, we conducted a search of new potential σ2 receptor ligands among a database of 1517 “small” marine natural products constructed by the union of the Seaweed Metabolite and the Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) Databases. The structures were passed through two filters that were constituted by our developed two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (3D-QSAR) statistical models, and successively docked upon a σ2 receptor homology model that we built according to the FASTA sequence of the σ2/TMEM97 (SGMR2_HUMAN) receptor.http://www.mdpi.com/1660-3397/16/10/384virtual screeningdatabase marine productssigma-2 receptorsigma-2 receptor ligands |
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Giuseppe Floresta Emanuele Amata Carla Barbaraci Davide Gentile Rita Turnaturi Agostino Marrazzo Antonio Rescifina A Structure- and Ligand-Based Virtual Screening of a Database of “Small” Marine Natural Products for the Identification of “Blue” Sigma-2 Receptor Ligands Marine Drugs virtual screening database marine products sigma-2 receptor sigma-2 receptor ligands |
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Giuseppe Floresta Emanuele Amata Carla Barbaraci Davide Gentile Rita Turnaturi Agostino Marrazzo Antonio Rescifina |
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Giuseppe Floresta |
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A Structure- and Ligand-Based Virtual Screening of a Database of “Small” Marine Natural Products for the Identification of “Blue” Sigma-2 Receptor Ligands |
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A Structure- and Ligand-Based Virtual Screening of a Database of “Small” Marine Natural Products for the Identification of “Blue” Sigma-2 Receptor Ligands |
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A Structure- and Ligand-Based Virtual Screening of a Database of “Small” Marine Natural Products for the Identification of “Blue” Sigma-2 Receptor Ligands |
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A Structure- and Ligand-Based Virtual Screening of a Database of “Small” Marine Natural Products for the Identification of “Blue” Sigma-2 Receptor Ligands |
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A Structure- and Ligand-Based Virtual Screening of a Database of “Small” Marine Natural Products for the Identification of “Blue” Sigma-2 Receptor Ligands |
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structure- and ligand-based virtual screening of a database of “small” marine natural products for the identification of “blue” sigma-2 receptor ligands |
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Marine Drugs |
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2018-10-01 |
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Sigma receptors are a fascinating receptor protein class whose ligands are actually under clinical evaluation for the modulation of opioid analgesia and their use as positron emission tomography radiotracers. In particular, peculiar biological and therapeutic functions are associated with the sigma-2 (σ2) receptor. The σ2 receptor ligands determine tumor cell death through apoptotic and non-apoptotic pathways, and the overexpression of σ2 receptors in several tumor cell lines has been well documented, with significantly higher levels in proliferating tumor cells compared to quiescent ones. This acknowledged feature has found practical application in the development of cancer cell tracers and for ligand-targeting therapy. In this context, the development of new ligands that target the σ2 receptors is beneficial for those diseases in which this protein is involved. In this paper, we conducted a search of new potential σ2 receptor ligands among a database of 1517 “small” marine natural products constructed by the union of the Seaweed Metabolite and the Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) Databases. The structures were passed through two filters that were constituted by our developed two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (3D-QSAR) statistical models, and successively docked upon a σ2 receptor homology model that we built according to the FASTA sequence of the σ2/TMEM97 (SGMR2_HUMAN) receptor. |
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virtual screening database marine products sigma-2 receptor sigma-2 receptor ligands |
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