Abstract
Despite increase in the understanding of the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), it remains a tough challenge. The advent of kinases involved in key intracellular pathways in pathogenesis of RA may provide a new phase of drug discovery for RA. The present study is aimed to identify dual JAK3/\(\hbox {PI3K}\delta \) inhibitors by developing an optimum pharmacophore model integrating the information revealed by ligand-based pharmacophore models and structure-based pharmacophore models (SBPMs). For JAK3 inhibitors, the addition of an aromatic ring feature and for \(\hbox {PI3K}\delta \) the addition of a hydrophobic feature proposed by SBPMs lead to five-point pharmacophore (i.e., AADHR.54 (JAK3)) and six-point pharmacophore (i.e., AAAHRR.45 (\(\hbox {PI3K}\delta \))). The obtained pharmacophores were validated and used for virtual screening and then for docking-based screening. Molecules were further evaluated for ADME properties, and their docked protein complexes were subjected to MM–GBSA energy calculations and molecular dynamic simulations. The top two hit compounds with novel scaffolds 2-oxo-1,2-dihydroquinoline and benzo[d]oxazole showed inhibitory activity for JAK3 and \(\hbox {PI3K}\delta \).
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Authors would like to thank Dr. Ravikumar Muttineni (Application Scientist), Er. Anirban Banerjee (IT Consultant) and Mr. Raghu Rangaswamy from Schrödinger, Bangalore, for their constant scientific and technical support to handle Schrödinger software and work smoothly. Authors also thank Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, for providing the financial support; Grant No. BIC/11(02)/2013. Authors would like to acknowledge Thermo Fisher Scientific, Paisley PA4 9RF, UK, for performing kinase assays.
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Kaur, M., Singh, P.K., Singh, M. et al. Molecular dynamics and integrated pharmacophore-based identification of dual \(\hbox {JAK3/PI3K}\delta \) inhibitors. Mol Divers 22, 95–112 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11030-017-9794-z
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