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Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of O-alkyl umbelliferone derivatives as pancreatic lipase inhibitors
Author : Nisha Yadav, Prashant Auti, Ginson George and Atish T. Paul*
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ABSTRACT
A series of coumarin derivatives were synthesised through O-alkylation of umbelliferone. These derivatives were screened for their pancreatic lipase (PL) inhibitory potential. The PL inhibitory effect of compounds with various benzyl and long chain alkyl substituents on umbelliferone were analysed. The compound 1g, having the geranyl substituent was found to have better PL inhibitory potential with an IC50 of 21.64 μM. The compounds 1a-j were subjected to molecular docking into the crystal structure of human PL. The molecular docking results are in correlation with the in vitro PL inhibition activity, wherein compound 1g showed a higher MolDock score of –122.12 kcal/mol. The long chain alkyl groups were found to have PL inhibition due to additional interactions with lid domain amino acids (Phe215, Tyr114, Phe77), as revealed by molecular docking study.
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Umbelliferone, pancreatic lipase, molecular docking, O-alkylation