AUTHOR=Sehrawat Renu , Rathee Priyanka , Rathee Pooja , Khatkar Sarita , Akkol Esra Küpeli , Khatkar Anurag , Sobarzo-Sánchez Eduardo TITLE=In silico design of novel bioactive molecules to treat breast cancer with chlorogenic acid derivatives: a computational and SAR approach JOURNAL=Frontiers in Pharmacology VOLUME=Volume 14 - 2023 YEAR=2023 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/pharmacology/articles/10.3389/fphar.2023.1266833 DOI=10.3389/fphar.2023.1266833 ISSN=1663-9812 ABSTRACT=Cancer is a vast group of diseases when abnormal cells multiply and grow uncontrollably and it is one of the top causes of death globally. Several types of cancer are diagnosed, but the incidence of breast cancer especially in postmenopausal women, is increasing daily.Chemotherapeutic agents used to treat cancer, are generally associated with severe side effects on host cells, which led to a search for safe and potential alternatives. Therefore, the present research has been conducted to find novel bioactive molecules to treat breast cancer with chlorogenic acid and its derivatives. Chlorogenic acid was preferred because of its known activity in the field. A series of chlorogenic acid derivatives were subjected to computational studies such as molecular docking, ADME, drug-likeness, toxicity, and pass prediction to develop a potential inhibitor of breast cancer. The PDB ids used for docking purposes were 7KCD, 3ERT, 6CHZ, 3HB5, and 1U72. Exhaustive analysis of results has been conducted by considering various parameters like docking score, binding energy, types of interaction with important amino acid residues in the binding pocket, ADME, and toxicity data of compounds. Among all the selected derivatives, CgE18, CgE11, CgAm13, CgE16, and CgE9 have astonishing interactions excellent binding energy, and better stability in the active site of targeted proteins. The docking score of compounds CgE18 was -11.63 kcal/mol, -14.