1,4,9,9-tetramethyloctahydro-4,7-(epoxymethano)azulen-5(1H)-one, a natural product as a potential inhibitor of COVID-19: Extraction, crystal structure, and virtual screening approach
El Bakri, Youness; Mohamed, Shaaban K; Saravanan, Kandasamy; Ahmad, Sajjad; Mahmoud, Ahmed A; Abdel-Raheem, Shaban A A; El-Sayed, Wael; Mague, Joel T; Goumri Said, Souraya;
Abstract
In the present work, we describe the extraction of a natural product namely 1,4,9,9-tetramethyloctahydro-4,7-(epoxymethano)azulen-5(1H)-one, and its structure was confirmed by single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. The conformations of the 5-, 6-, and 7-membered rings in the title compound, C15H24O2, have been probed by a Cremer-Pople puckering analysis. C-H···O hydrogen bonds generate chains in the crystal that stretch along the c-axis direction. The Hirshfeld surface analysis method was used to stabilize the crystal packing of the natural compound. Accompanied by experimental studies, quantum chemical calculations were also performed to compare the structural elucidation and the results of these geometrical parameters exhibited excellent agreement. The compound was also docked with several drug targets of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and found to show the best binding with the main protease enzyme, having a binding energy of -12.31 kcal/mol and interacting with His41 and Cys145 residues. The dynamic stability deciphered the complex to be stable with an average RMSD of 3.8 Å. The compound dynamics with the enzyme showed the compound conformation to be highly stable. The intermolecular binding free energy determined the compound-main protease enzyme to show high interaction energy of < 40 kcal/mol. Together, these studies demonstrate the compound to be a lead structure against SARS-CoV-2.
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Title | 1,4,9,9-tetramethyloctahydro-4,7-(epoxymethano)azulen-5(1H)-one, a natural product as a potential inhibitor of COVID-19: Extraction, crystal structure, and virtual screening approach | Authors | El Bakri, Youness; Mohamed, Shaaban K; Saravanan, Kandasamy; Ahmad, Sajjad; Mahmoud, Ahmed A ; Abdel-Raheem, Shaban A A; El-Sayed, Wael ; Mague, Joel T; Goumri Said, Souraya | Keywords | COVID-19;DFT study;Molecular Docking;Molecular dynamics;Natural product;SARS-CoV-2 | Issue Date | Jun-2023 | Journal | Journal of King Saud University - Science | Volume | 35 | Issue | 4 | ISSN | 10183647 | DOI | 10.1016/j.jksus.2023.102628 | PubMed ID | 36908997 | Scopus ID | 2-s2.0-85149721226 |
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