Azeemuddin Siddiqui, Himanshi Narula, Rajni Jaiswal, Nawras al-Ghreeb, Jawed Ahmed
Department of Computer Science, Jamia Hamdard, Delhi 110062, India.
ABSTRACT
Of the four species of Plasmodium, mortality in human is caused by Plasmodium falciparum. This parasite is killed by the oxidative stress produced in the erythrocytes due to the inhibition of enzyme G6PD (Glucose 6-phophate Dehydrogenase). During normal detoxification, H 2 O 2 is converted to H 2 O, which is catalysed by the enzyme glutathione peroxidase. This Conversion requires NADPH produced during the G6PD catalysed reaction. The mechanism of action of the antimalarial drugs, like primaquine, is to inhibit the G6PD enzyme, thereby, increasing the toxic H 2 O 2 concentration in the RBCs which is toxic for Malarial parasite. In this work, we perform the docking of various compounds on G6PD using some of the widely used docking softwares. These dry lab results are then compared to the wet lab results. We can observe that the dry lab results show deviation from the wet lab results. The deviations of results, obtained with different softwares, are statistically analysed. Upon analysis, the software which shows results closest to the wet lab experiments is designated to be the most authentic of the other softwares. Read more…
