Molecular Docking Studies, Analgesic and Anti-inflammatory Screening of Some Novel Quinazolin-4-one Derivatives

Abstract

Molecular docking studies was performed on 20 analogous novel quinazolin-4-one derivatives as cox-2 inhibitors using glide tool of maestro 11.4 application of Schrodinger software. Anti-inflammatory and analgesic activities were further evaluated for the compounds. Based on docking studies, the binding affinity of QZN-16 was found to be -10.32 kcal/mol. In order to understand the significance of R-substituents on the quinazoline-4-one nucleus, the findings of hydrogen bonding interactions between designated ligands with binding site region of 4cox were studied. The ligands which are having high docking score were subjected to pharmacological screening. The compound QZN-16 has shown analgesic and anti-inflammatory activity at a dose level of 50 and 100 mg/kg body weight, respectively when compared with standard drug indomethacin. The newly designed quinazoline-4-one derivatives may serve as lead molecules for further development.