title: Computational study involving identification of endocrine disrupting potential of herbicides: Its implication in TDS and cancer progression in CRPC patients.
abstract: Several environmental pollutants, including herbicides, act as endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). They can cause cancer, diabetes, obesity, metabolic diseases and developmental problems. Present study was conducted to screen 608 herbicides for evaluating their endocrine disrupting potential. The screening was carried out with the help of endocrine disruptome docking program, http://endocrinedisruptome.ki.si (Kolsek et al., 2013). This program screens the binding affinity of test ligands to 12 major nuclear receptors. As high as 252 compounds were capable of binding to at least three receptors wherein 10 of them showed affinity with at-least six receptors based on this approach. The latter were ranked as potent EDCs. Majority of the screened herbicides were acting as antagonists of human androgen receptor (hAR). A homology modeling approach was used to construct the three dimensional structure of hAR to understand their binding mechanism. Docking results reveal that the most potent antiandrogenic herbicides would bind to hydrophobic cavity of modeled hAR and may lead to testicular dysgenesis syndrome (TDS) on fetal exposure. However, on binding to T877 mutant AR they seem to act as agonists in castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Life Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, U.P., 202002, India.
authors.forename: Md Irshad
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Ahmad
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Life Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, U.P., 202002, India.
authors.forename: Afia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Usman
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Life Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, U.P., 202002, India. Electronic address: masoodamua@rediffmail.com.
authors.forename: Masood
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ahmad
mesh_terms: D052244:Endocrine Disruptors / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006540:Herbicides / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008958:Models, Molecular; D064129:Prostatic Neoplasms, Castration-Resistant; D011944:Receptors, Androgen / Q000378:metabolism*; D013577:Syndrome; D013733:Testicular Diseases
chemical_list: C410798:AR protein, human; D052244:Endocrine Disruptors; D006540:Herbicides; D011944:Receptors, Androgen
keywords: Databases; Herbicides; Human androgen receptor; Molecular docking; Molecular modeling