scholarly journals Quantitative Structure–Activity Relationships for Structurally Diverse Chemotypes Having Anti-Trypanosoma cruzi Activity

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (11) ◽  
pp. 2801 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anacleto S. de Souza ◽  
Leonardo L. G. Ferreira ◽  
Aldo S. de Oliveira ◽  
Adriano D. Andricopulo

Small-molecule compounds that have promising activity against macromolecular targets from Trypanosoma cruzi occasionally fail when tested in whole-cell phenotypic assays. This outcome can be attributed to many factors, including inadequate physicochemical and pharmacokinetic properties. Unsuitable physicochemical profiles usually result in molecules with a poor ability to cross cell membranes. Quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) analysis is a valuable approach to the investigation of how physicochemical characteristics affect biological activity. In this study, artificial neural networks (ANNs) and kernel-based partial least squares regression (KPLS) were developed using anti-T. cruzi activity data for broadly diverse chemotypes. The models exhibited a good predictive ability for the test set compounds, yielding q2 values of 0.81 and 0.84 for the ANN and KPLS models, respectively. The results of this investigation highlighted privileged molecular scaffolds and the optimum physicochemical space associated with high anti-T. cruzi activity, which provided important guidelines for the design of novel trypanocidal agents having drug-like properties.

2019 ◽  
Vol 948 ◽  
pp. 101-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daratu E.K. Putri ◽  
Harno Dwi Pranowo ◽  
Winarto Haryadi

Study on anti breast cancer activity of 3-substituted 4-anilino coumarin derivatives by using quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) has been performed. The structures and the activity data were literatured from Guoshun et al. experiment. The molecular and electronic molecule properties were obtained from DFT/BPV86 6-31G method calculation after was through methods validation. The QSAR analysis were shown by Multi Linear Regression method (MLR). The best model of obtained for 3-substituted 4-anilino coumarin derivatives is: Log IC50 = 5.905 + (0.936 x qC1) + (-8.225 x qC8) + (-0.582 x qC13) + (11.273 x qC15) + (0.869 x ∆E) ; n = 26; r2= 0.704; Fcal/Ftab = 2.462; SEE = 0.184.


ADMET & DMPK ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 196-209
Author(s):  
Daniela Andrea Ramirez ◽  
Eduardo Marchevsky ◽  
Juan Maria Luco ◽  
Alejandra Camargo

CYP2A6 is a human enzyme responsible for the metabolic elimination of nicotine, and it is also involved in the activation of procarcinogenic nitrosamines, especially those present in tobacco smoke. Several investigations have reported that reducing this enzyme activity may contribute to anti-smoking therapy as well as reducing the risk of promutagens in the body. For these reasons, several authors investigate selective inhibitors molecules toward this enzyme. The aim of this study was to evaluate the interactions between a set of organosulfur compounds and the CYP2A6 enzyme by a quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) analysis. The present work provides a better understanding of the mechanisms involved, with the final goal of providing information for the future design of CYP2A6 inhibitors based on dietary compounds. The reported activity data were modeled by means of multiple regression analysis (MLR) and partial least-squares (PLS) techniques. The results indicate that hydrophobic and steric factors govern the union, while electronic factors are strongly involved in the case of monosulfides.


2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 255-260
Author(s):  
Iqmal Tahir ◽  
Mudasir Mudasir ◽  
Irza Yulistia ◽  
Mustofa Mustofa

Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR) analysis of vincadifformine analogs as an antimalarial drug has been conducted using atomic net charges (q), moment dipole (), LUMO (Lowest Unoccupied Molecular Orbital) and HOMO (Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital) energies, molecular mass (m) as well as surface area (A) as the predictors to their activity. Data of predictors are obtained from computational chemistry method using semi-empirical molecular orbital AM1 calculation. Antimalarial activities were taken as the activity of the drugs against chloroquine-sensitive Plasmodium falciparum (Nigerian Cell) strain and were presented as the value of ln(1/IC50) where IC50 is an effective concentration inhibiting 50% of the parasite growth. The best QSAR model has been determined by multiple linier regression analysis giving QSAR equation: Log (1/IC50) = 9.602.qC1 -17.012.qC2 +6.084.qC3 -19.758.qC5 -6.517.qC6 +2.746.qC7 -6.795.qN +6.59.qC8 -0.190. -0.974.ELUMO +0.515.EHOMO -0.274. +0.029.A -1.673 (n = 16; r = 0.995; SD = 0.099; F = 2.682)   Keywords: QSAR analysis, antimalaria, vincadifformine.  


2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 2361-2369
Author(s):  
Herlina Rasyid ◽  
Bambang Purwono ◽  
Ria Armunanto

Quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) based on electronic descriptors had been conducted on 2,3-dihydro-[1,4]dioxino[2,3-f]quinazoline analogues as anticancer using DFT/B3LYP method. The best QSAR equation described as follow: Log IC50 = -11.688 + (-35.522×qC6) + (-21.055×qC10) + (-85.682×qC12) + (-32.997×qO22) + (-85.129 EHOMO) + (19.724×ELUMO). Statistical value of R2 = 0.8732, rm2 = 0.7935, r2-r02/r2 = 0.0118, PRESS = 1.5727 and Fcalc/Ftable = 2.4067 used as external validation. Atomic net charge showed as the most important descriptor to predict activity and design new molecule. Following QSAR analysis, Lipinski rules was applied to filter the design compound due to physicochemical properties and resulted that all filtered compounds did not violate the rules. Docking analysis was conducted to determine interaction between proposed compounds and EGFR protein. Critical hydrogen bond was found in Met769 residue suggesting that proposed compounds could be used to inhibit EGFR protein.


2004 ◽  
Vol 76 (10) ◽  
pp. 1927-1931
Author(s):  
T. Fujita

This workshop has been organized to cover various quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) and computer aided procedures currently carried out for the prediction of the endocrine activity of unknown compounds. Each of the procedures has own scope as well as limitations. It seems inappropriate to consider that a single quantitative prediction model derived from each of these procedures could solve the entire issue. Because the model building is highly dependent on the data/knowledge about endocrine activity of a large number of existing compounds accumulated to date and the data/knowledge are growing constantly, the model has a destiny to be amended “forever ”as the structure-activity data of newly synthesized compounds are accumulated. The skepticism about in silico and QSAR procedures put forward in the past is likely to be cleared at least to some extent if not entirely by participating in this workshop.


Author(s):  
Ranita Pal ◽  
Pratim Kumar Chattaraj

In the current pandemic-stricken world, quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) analysis has become a necessity in the domain of molecular biology and drug design, realizing that it helps estimate properties and activities of a compound, without actually having to spend time and resources to synthesize it in the laboratory. Correlating the molecular structure of a compound with its activity depends on the choice of the descriptors, which becomes a difficult and confusing task when we have so many to choose from. In this mini-review, the authors delineate the importance of very simple and easy to compute descriptors in estimating various molecular properties/toxicity.


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