Abstract

IN SILICO STUDIES ON DENGUE AND EBOLA VIRAL PROTEINS WITH SELECTED OCIMUM SANCTUM LEAVES CONSTITUENTS

Anushree S., Archana S., Smriti Chawla, Bhavya M., Ramya M. and *Balasubramanian Sathyamurthy

Abstract

Dengue and Ebola virus contains seven proteins, which are considered to be the most effective for drug designing. Recent studies have shown that these proteins can effectively cause the inactivation of dengue and ebola disease in humans. Phytochemicals present in Ocimum sanctum are found to have anti-inflamatory and antifungal properties. In this particular study, the binding efficiency of 3 compounds that is present in the Ocimum sanctum with all the fourteen proteins was performed through Insilico methods. By our virtual screening and molecular docking result, we found that the Benzene, 1, 2-dimethoxy-4-(1- propenyl) and Eugenol have highest binding affinity with the proteins and we also predicted the binding site amino acid residues and the type of hydrogen bonding.

Keywords: Tulsi, molecular docking, hydrogen bonding, binding affinities.