scholarly journals Design of New 2,4-Substituted Furo [3,2-B] Indole Derivatives as Anticancer Compounds Using Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR) and Molecular Docking

Molekul ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Jufrizal Syahri ◽  
Nurul Hidayah ◽  
Rahmiwati Hilma ◽  
Beta Achromi Nurohmah ◽  
Emmy Yuanita

This study aimed to propose new indole derivatives as anticancer through Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR) and molecular docking method. The best predicted anticancer activity of indole derivatives was recommended based on the QSAR equation. A data set consist of 18 indole derivatives from literature with anticancer activity against the A498 cell line was used to generate a QSAR model equation. The data set was divided randomly into training (14) and test (4) set compounds. The structure of indole compound was optimized first using AM1 semi-empirical methods, and the descriptors involved were analyzed using Multiple Linear Regression (MLR). The best QSAR equation obtained was Log IC50 = 65.596 (qC2) + 366.764 (qC6) – 92.742 (qC11) + 503.297 (HOMO) – 492.550 (LUMO) – 76.966. Based on the QSAR model, varying electron-withdrawing groups in C2 and C6 atom, as well as adding electron-donating groups in C11 were proposed could increase the anticancer activity of the indole derivatives. The QSAR analysis showed that compound 15 has the best predicted anticancer activity, supported by molecular docking results that showed hydrogen bond interaction with essential amino acids to build anticancer activity such as MET769, THR830, and THR766 residues.

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Toshio Kasamatsu ◽  
Airi Kitazawa ◽  
Sumie Tajima ◽  
Masahiro Kaneko ◽  
Kei-ichi Sugiyama ◽  
...  

Abstract Background Food flavors are relatively low molecular weight chemicals with unique odor-related functional groups that may also be associated with mutagenicity. These chemicals are often difficult to test for mutagenicity by the Ames test because of their low production and peculiar odor. Therefore, application of the quantitative structure–activity relationship (QSAR) approach is being considered. We used the StarDrop™ Auto-Modeller™ to develop a new QSAR model. Results In the first step, we developed a new robust Ames database of 406 food flavor chemicals consisting of existing Ames flavor chemical data and newly acquired Ames test data. Ames results for some existing flavor chemicals have been revised by expert reviews. We also collected 428 Ames test datasets for industrial chemicals from other databases that are structurally similar to flavor chemicals. A total of 834 chemicals’ Ames test datasets were used to develop the new QSAR models. We repeated the development and verification of prototypes by selecting appropriate modeling methods and descriptors and developed a local QSAR model. A new QSAR model “StarDrop NIHS 834_67” showed excellent performance (sensitivity: 79.5%, specificity: 96.4%, accuracy: 94.6%) for predicting Ames mutagenicity of 406 food flavors and was better than other commercial QSAR tools. Conclusions A local QSAR model, StarDrop NIHS 834_67, was customized to predict the Ames mutagenicity of food flavor chemicals and other low molecular weight chemicals. The model can be used to assess the mutagenicity of food flavors without actual testing.


RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (70) ◽  
pp. 57030-57037 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arafeh Bigdeli ◽  
Mohammad Reza Hormozi-Nezhad ◽  
Hadi Parastar

A nano-quantitative structure-activity relationship (nano-QSAR) model is proposed to indicate the determining factors responsible in the exocytosis of gold nanoparticles in macrophages.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manman Zhao ◽  
Lin Wang ◽  
Linfeng Zheng ◽  
Mengying Zhang ◽  
Chun Qiu ◽  
...  

Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is an important target for cancer therapy. In this study, EGFR inhibitors were investigated to build a two-dimensional quantitative structure-activity relationship (2D-QSAR) model and a three-dimensional quantitative structure-activity relationship (3D-QSAR) model. In the 2D-QSAR model, the support vector machine (SVM) classifier combined with the feature selection method was applied to predict whether a compound was an EGFR inhibitor. As a result, the prediction accuracy of the 2D-QSAR model was 98.99% by using tenfold cross-validation test and 97.67% by using independent set test. Then, in the 3D-QSAR model, the model with q2=0.565 (cross-validated correlation coefficient) and r2=0.888 (non-cross-validated correlation coefficient) was built to predict the activity of EGFR inhibitors. The mean absolute error (MAE) of the training set and test set was 0.308 log units and 0.526 log units, respectively. In addition, molecular docking was also employed to investigate the interaction between EGFR inhibitors and EGFR.


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