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    Docking of novel reversible monoamine oxidase-B inhibitors
    (Springer Wien, 2007) Yelekci, K.; Karahan, O.; Toprakci, M.
    Monoamine oxidase (MAO, EC 1.4.3.4) is a flavoenzyme bound to the mitochondrial outer membranes of the cells, which is responsible for the oxidative deamination of neurotransmitter and dietary amines. It has two distinct isozymic forms, designated MAO-A and MAO-B, each displaying different substrate and inhibitor specificities. They are the well-known target for antidepressant, Parkinson's disease and neuroprotective drugs. Elucidation of the x-ray crystallographic structure of MAO-B has opened the way for molecular modeling studies. In this research 12 reversible and MAO-B selective inhibitors have been docked computationally to the active site of the MAO-B enzyme. AutoDock 3.0.5 was employed to perform the automated molecular docking. The result of docking studies generated thermodynamic properties, such as free energy of bindings (Delta G(b)) and inhibition constants (K-i) for the inhibitors. Moreover, 3D pictures of inhibitor-enzyme complexes afforded valuable data regarding the binding orientation of each inhibitor in the active site of MAO-B.