Targeting CoV-2 spike RBD and ACE-2 interaction with flavonoids of Anatolian propolis by in silico and in vitro studies in terms of possible COVID-19 therapeutics

  1. Halil İbrahim GÜLER
  2. Fulya AY ŞAL
  3. Zehra CAN
  4. Yakup KARA
  5. Oktay YILDIZ
  6. Ali Osman BELDÜZ
  7. Sabriye ÇANAKÇI
  8. Sevgi KOLAYLI

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  1. Version published to 10.3906/biy-2104-5
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    Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board Statementnot detected.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    Molecular Docking Studies: AutoDock 4.2 software for performing molecular docking studies was used to investigate the possible interactions of eight ligands and reference molecule with the target proteins.
    AutoDock
    suggested: (AutoDock, RRID:SCR_012746)
    The 3-D structure of all ligands (pinocembrin, chrysin, cape, hesperetin, ferulic acid, t-cinnamic acid, p-coumaric acid, caffeic acid) and reference molecule (Hydroxychloroquine) were retrieved from the PubChem database (https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
    https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
    suggested: (PubChem BioAssay, RRID:SCR_010734)
    The SMILES format retrieved from PubChem Database of the interested ligands were used as input for analysis tool (Daina et al., 2017).
    PubChem
    suggested: (PubChem, RRID:SCR_004284)
    2.7 Statistical analyses: The statistical evaluations were carried out with the SPSS Statistic 11.5 (IBM SPSS Statistics, Armonk
    SPSS
    suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)

    Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).

    Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.

    Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.

    Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.

    Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.

    Results from rtransparent:
    • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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