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Computer-aided drug design have emerged as a promising alternative tool to replace the conventional complex, expensive and very time consuming way of designing and development of new potential drugs. In this book, the author presents a comprehensive coverage of the topic with special emphasis on investigation of structure and properties of few organic bio-active molecules having anti-tubercular activities using several molecular modeling techniques. The key features of this book are: Focuses on quantum chemical calculations performed to determine the structure and reactivity of two of the most commonly used anti-tubercular drug molecules INH, PZA including MHI which is a novel natural analogue of INH. This book also gives a detailed insight into the mode of interaction of INH that involves binding of isoniazid-NAD adducts to the active site of Mycobacterium tuberculosis enoyl-ACP reductase (InhA) studied using docking and quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) approaches. The book should be of help to the research students working in the field of drug designing especially using molecular modelling techniques.
About the author
Dr Kalyan Kr Hazarika, M.Sc., Ph.D has been serving for the Department of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology, Tezpur University, Assam, India. His research interest includes computational studies of bioactive natural products.
