Flavonoid content of the Libyan Onosma Cyrenaicum: isolation, identification, electronic chemical reactivity, drug likeness, docking, and MD study

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Elkwafi G, Mohamed N, Elabbar F, Alnajjar R.

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J Biomol Struct Dyn. 2021 Mar 9:1-16. doi: 10.1080/07391102.2021.1897046. Online ahead of print.

Abstract

In this work, an attempt to identify the flavonoid content of the Libyan Onosma Cyrenaicum led to the isolation of three flavonoids 7,8-dihydroxy-2-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-4H-chromen-4-one(GE-001), 5,7-dihydroxy-2-(3-hydroxy-4-methoxy phenyl)-4H-chromen-4-one (GE-002) and 5,7-dihydroxy-3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-4H-chromen-4-one (GE-003), the isolated compounds were characterized using (1)H and (13)C-NMR techniques. A further DFT study at ωB97-XD with 6-311++G** basis set in water was conducted to calculate the isolated compounds’ global and local reactivity descriptors and Fukui indices along with their antioxidant activity. The drug-likeness and bioactivity properties of the isolated compounds were estimated and discussed. Finally, GE-001, GE-002, and GE-003 were docked into HCV NS5B polymerase active siteand this was followed by molecular dynamic simulation to certify the obtained docking result and to obtain the MM-GBSA free binding energyy of the isolated compounds. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma.

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Link/DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2021.1897046