JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR STRUCTURE, cilt.1220, 2020 (SCI-Expanded)
Recently, inhibition studies of pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) enzymes have come out as an encouraging approach for pharmacological intervention in a variety of disorders. For this purpose, the rhodanines (Ph-Rhs) containing different benzene moiety were obtained via a green synthetic approach over a one pot reaction. We tested their inhibition effect on PPP enzymes glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) and 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (6PGD). As a result of these studies, inhibition constant (K-i) of Ph-Rhs on PPP enzymes were found in the range of 6.57 +/- 2.03 to 91.60 +/- 9.25 mu M for G6PD and 11.17 +/- 3.01 to 64.51 +/- 4.26 mu M for 6PGD. Moreover, binding energies were calculated with docking studies as -5.234 and -5.071 kcal/mol for G6PD and 6PGD, respectively. (C) 2020 Published by Elsevier B.V.