An efficient and durable multi-targeted therapeutic drug against hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has recently been a growing concern for tackling the chemoresistance of approved anti-HCC drugs. Recent studies indicated that methyltransferase-like (METTL) proteins including METTL1, METTL3, METTL6, METTL16, and METTL18, have overexpressed and associated with the progression of HCC malignancy, and making them excellent biomarkers. Here, we present a series of bioinformatics study including novel compound repurposing approach, molecular docking, pharmacophore modeling, and molecular dynamic simulation, which revealed two first-in-class highly potent catalytic multi-target inhibitors (ZINC70666503 and ZINC13000658 with 87% and 82% drug scores, respectively) of methyltransferase-like proteins. Comparatively, these two inhibitors showed a notable binding affinity against studied METTL proteins. Furthermore, ADME and toxicity analysis suggested that these two commercially available compounds have good drug-likeliness properties with no potent toxic effects. Of note, the molecular dynamics study supported their conformational stability and high selectivity at the pocket of proteins' adenosine moiety of S-Adenosyl Methionine. However, this comprehensive analysis needs in vivo validation to facilitate multi-targeting therapeutic development against hepatocellular carcinoma.
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