Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the deadly diseases which incidence rate will increase every year due to people lifestyle and food habit etc., Moreover, people’s required a new therapeutic molecule to resolve this problem. Therefore plant-based chemical constituents are the best option due to the low side effects, easy availability and cost-effective manner. The flowering plant of Thunbergia fragrans Roxb belongs to the Acanthaceae family has a vast range of medicinal properties, anticancer activity is one among them. Thunbergia fragrans has reported to had chemical constituents of Palmitic acid, Cis-9-Hexadecenal and Campesterol which possess anticancer activity. For the beginning of TF chemical constituents were studied against the Colorectal cancer (CRC) mutant genes such as NRAS (PDB ID: 6ZIZ), Beta-Catenin (PDB ID: 6M93) – Oncogenes; APC (PDB ID: 3NMX), Smad2 (PDB ID: 1KHU) – Tumor Suppressor genes through insilico docking studies. AutoDock 4.2 tool was used to predict the interaction between ligand and receptor, Binding energy and Bond specification in a 3D space. Finally, the results revealed TF chemical constituents showed excellent binding energy against CRC mutant genes such as Palmitic acid against Beta-Catenin (-4.75) and APC (-4.01), Cis-9-Hexadecenal against NRAS (-1.92), Beta-Catenin (-3.96) and APC (-4.41), Campesterol against Beta-Catenin (-8.55) and APC (-8.85) respectively.
Nowadays plants are the traditional product that has little or no side effects in modern medicine. The <em>Thunbergia fragrans</em> belong to the family <em>Acanthaceae</em> which contains more biologically active phytoconstituents. The plant leaves were extracted with different solvents including ethanol, aqueous, hexane and ethyl acetate. These extracts have been subjected to phytochemical study. The results of the qualitative phytochemical analysis indicate that the ethanol extracts provided more phytoconstituents. The phytochemical quantitative analysis showed that the ethanol had a higher amount of flavonoid. The ethanol extract of <em>Thunbergia fragrans</em> contained antioxidant and antibacterial activity. The GCMS study for the compound identification was studied for all four extracts. The result revealed the presence of various biologically active compounds in the ethanol extract.
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