Computational Determination of the Affinity and Binding Efficiency of Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Cyclooxygenase-2 Inhibitors

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Lorena Meneses
Sebastián Cuesta

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A computational study of the interaction of nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs with Cyclooxygenase 2 (COX-2) enzyme is shown. The objective was to determine the affinity of the inhibitors studied with the active site of the enzyme and calculate their binding efficiency. Furthermore, it is intended to check the applicability of the methods of molecular docking in determining promising molecules in order to accelerate drug discovery research. Molecular dynamics methods, using Autodock VINA, were used to model the interactions between the COX-2 enzyme with celecoxib, diclofenac, etoricoxib, indomethacin, ibuprofen, naproxen, and meloxicam. Results show that the molecule with higher affinity for COX-2 is celecoxib with a binding energy of -10.8 kcal/mol and an equilibrium constant Ki of 1.21x10-8 M. Ibuprofen and naproxen are the molecules with higher binding efficiency with a values greater than -0.48 kcal/mol/ atoms (other than hydrogen). This shows that a molecule having a good affinity, not necessarily will have a good binding efficiency. These values give researchers a guideline to choose the best molecule to inhibit COX-2 enzyme and in cases of drug discovery processes, the ideal molecule to invest in their improvement and optimization to make it an approved drug.

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Meneses L, Cuesta S. Computational Determination of the Affinity and Binding Efficiency of Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Cyclooxygenase-2 Inhibitors. REMCB [Internet]. 2017Aug.15 [cited 2024Jul.3];36(1-2):17-5. Available from: https://remcb-puce.edu.ec/remcb/article/view/260
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