Synthesis, characterization, pharmacological evaluation and molecular docking studies of benzothiazole azo derivatives

Abstract

A series of novel benzothiazole based azo dyes were synthesized and fully characterized by using different analytical techniques. The antioxidant activity of synthesized azo dyes was studied with the DPPH, hydrogen peroxide, metal chelating and nitric oxide radical methods and compared with the known antioxidant ascorbic acid. Further, the anticancer properties of synthesized azo dyes were carried out against breast cancer (MCF-7) cell lines by MTT assay and results revealed that the synthesized compounds exhibited good anticancer property in micro-molar range. Additionally, the anti-inflammatory activities of target compounds were also investigated by protein denaturation method and were found to have effective anti-inflammatory property. In order to predict the binding modes and binding affinity of synthesized compounds, they were docked into the active sites of protein B-cell lymphoma-extra-large (Bcl-xL) to predict their anticancer property. The synthesized compounds were found to have good affinity for B-cell lymphoma-extra-large (Bcl-xL). A good correlation was found between in-silico docking analysis and in biological screening of all synthesized azo dyes with less binding energies and higher inhibition constants value against the target protein.