Research Article

Comparative Assessment of Three Medicinal Plants against Diabetes and Oxidative Stress Using Experimental and Computational Approaches

Table 4

Molecular docking study of EEMC, METT, and MEAC against α-amylase (PDB ID: 3BAJ) for antidiabetic activity.

SampleCompoundDocking scoreGlide EmodelGlide energy

EEMCCrassifoside A−6.03−67.87−50.98
Breviscaside A−6.06−69.67−54.05
Crassifogenin C−6.03−67.87−50.98
Crassifoside D−5.92−65.15−51.27
Curcapital−5.34−51.50−38.20
Isocurculigine−5.71−76.74−59.01

METTCyclotricuspidoside A−7.19−86.64−60.86
Cyclotricuspidoside C−6.89−87.29−60.02
Stigmast-7-en-3β-ol−5.56−50.89−37.71
α-Spinasterol−6.18−52.09−37.94
3-o-β-D-glucopyranoside−5.26−58.87−50.47
Glyceryl 1 palmitate−5.06−54.98−45.95

MEACStigmasterol−6.08−51.93−37.41
β-sitosterol−6.06−49.61−49.61
Campesterol−5.89−48.07−35.58
1,3,5-Benzenetriol−5.25−35.03−25.74
Vitamin E acetate−4.43−56.71−47.62
Squalene−3.15−47.09−42.01

StandardAcarbose−7.37−81.25−59.51

EEMC: ethanol extract of M. capitulata; METT: methanol extract of T. tricuspidata; MEAC: methanol extract of A. campanulatus.