Fig 1.
Schematic diagram of the utilized computational techniques for screening the SuperDRUG2 database against EBNA1.
Fig 2.
3D superimposition of the native structure (purple) and the anticipated docking pose (grey) of KWG against EBNA1.
Table 1.
The computed quick and high-accuracy docking scores, and binding features for the most promising 10 drug candidates and KWG against EBNA1 a.
Fig 3.
2D interaction diagram for (a) bezitramide (SD000308), (b) glyburide (SD001170), (c) glisentide (SD001159), (d) glimepiride (SD001156), and (e) KWG complexed with EBNA1.
Fig 4.
Computed binding energies for the KWG and the top potent drug candidates bound with EBNA1 over 5 ns MDS in implicit and 10 ns, 25 ns, 100 ns, and 200 ns MDS in explicit water solvents.
Fig 5.
(a) Binding affinity components and (b) 3D representation of the average structure of (i) bezitramide (SD000308), (ii) glyburide (SD001170), (iii) glisentide (SD001159), and (iv) glimepiride (SD001156) bound with EBNA1 over 200 ns MDS.
Fig 6.
Illustration of per-residue energy decomposition analysis for bezitramide (SD000308)-, glyburide (SD001170)-, glisentide (SD001159)-, glimepiride (SD001156)-, and KWG-EBNA1 complexes over 200 ns MDS.
Fig 7.
(a) Binding energy analysis, (b) CoM distance, and (c) RMSD of bezitramide (SD000308) (blue), glyburide (SD001170) (mauve), glisentide (SD001159) (green), glimepiride (SD001156) (dark yellow), and KWG (grey) towards EBNA1 throughout 200 ns MDS.
Fig 8.
Number of H-bonds for (a) bezitramide (SD000308), (b) glyburide (SD001170), (c) glisentide (SD001159), (d) glimepiride (SD001156), and (e) KWG complexed with EBNA1 over 200 ns MDS.
Fig 9.
(a) RMSF and (b) Rg of apo-EBNA1 (orange), bezitramide (SD000308)-EBNA1 (blue), glyburide (SD001170)-EBNA1 (mauve), glisentide (SD001159)-EBNA1 (green), glimepiride (SD001156)-EBNA1 (dark yellow), and KWG-EBNA1 (grey) over 200 ns MDS.
Fig 10.
MEP maps of the final trajectory of (a) bezitramide (SD000308), (b) glyburide (SD001170), (c) glisentide (SD001159), (d) glimepiride (SD001156), and (e) KWG.
Fig 11.
HOMO and LUMO plots of (a) bezitramide (SD000308), (b) glyburide (SD001170), (c) glisentide (SD001159), (d) glimepiride (SD001156), and (e) KWG.
Table 2.
EHOMO, ELUMO, and Egap values of the most promising drug candidates and KWG.
Table 3.
Global indices reactivity parameters of the inspected drug candidates and KWG.