Journal: Scientific Reports
Article Title: Thyme and cinnamon essential oils inhibit multidrug resistant Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae and alter virulence transcripts
doi: 10.1038/s41598-026-38791-2
Figure Lengend Snippet: Predicted docking poses of four phytochemicals—carvacrol ( A ), cinnamaldehyde ( B ), eugenol ( C ), and thymol ( D )—within the MrkA pocket (PDB ID: 9HW9). For each ligand, the upper panel shows the 3D binding pose (protein in cartoon with pocket surface; ligand as sticks), and the lower panel shows the corresponding 2D interaction map highlighting nearby residues. Across complexes, ligands occupy a similar predominantly hydrophobic/aromatic region, with recurring contacts including Trp78, Val76/Val109/Val149, Leu108/Leu110, Ile122, Tyr147/Tyr148, and polar-edge residues such as Ser111/Thr112 and Lys131/Lys133.
Article Snippet: Figures , , and presented the molecular docking poses of cinnamaldehyde, carvacrol, eugenol, and thymol in four targets, where each figure showed a 3D binding-pocket view (ligands in stick representation within the cavity surface) alongside 2D residue interaction maps generated in BIOVIA Discovery Studio (BIOVIA_DS2025Client).
Techniques: Binding Assay