The aim of this study is to enhance the predictivity power of CoMFA and CoMSIA models by means of different variable selection algorithms. The genetic algorithm (GA), successive projection algorithm (SPA), stepwise multiple linear regression (SW-MLR), and the enhanced replacement method (ERM) were used and tested as variable selection algorithms. Then, the selected variables were used to genera...

Three-dimensional quantitative structure activity relationship (3D QSAR) analysis was carried out on a et of 56 N,N'-diarylsquaramides, N,N'-diarylureas and diaminocyclobutenediones in order to understand their antagonistic activities against CXCR2. The studies included comparative molecular field analysis (CoMFA) and comparative molecular similarity indices analysis (CoMSIA). Models with good ...

Dihydrofolate reductase is known for important role in cancer and microbial diseases and hence is considered as validated target for aforementioned diseases. Three dimensional quantitative structure activity relationship studies (3D-QSAR) involving comparative molecular field analysis (CoMFA) and comparative similarity indices analysis (CoMSIA) were performed using twenty two Pneumocystis carin...

In order to obtain structural features of 3-arylpyrimidin-2,4-diones emerged as promising inhibitors of insect γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) receptor, a set of ligand-/receptor-based 3D-QSAR models for 60 derivatives are generated using Comparative Molecular Field Analysis (CoMFA) and Comparative Molecular Similarity Index Analysis (CoMSIA). The statistically optimal CoMSIA model is produced with ...

Topoisomerase I is important for DNA replication and cell division, making it an attractive drug target for anticancer therapy. A series of indenoisoquinolines displaying potent Top1 inhibitory activity in human renal cell carcinoma cell line SN12C were selected to establish 3D-QSAR models using CoMFA and CoMSIA methods. Internal and external cross-validation techniques were investigated, as we...

Tie-2, a kind of endothelial cell tyrosine kinase receptor, is required for embryonic blood vessel development and tumor angiogenesis. Several compounds that showed potent activity toward this attractive anticancer drug target in the assay have been reported. In order to investigate the structure-activity correlation of indolocarbazole series compounds and modify them to improve their selectivi...

Molecular docking and three-dimensional quantitative structure-activity relationships (3D-QSAR) were used to develop models to predict estrogenicity of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), para-hydroxylated polybrominated diphenyl ethers (para-HO-PBDEs), and brominated bisphenol A compounds to the human estrogen receptor alpha (hERalpha). Based on the molecular conformations developed from t...

The cytochrome P450 (CYP) isoforms involved in xenobiotic metabolism are enzymes whose substrate selectivity remains difficult to predict due to wide specificity and dynamic protein-substrate interactions. To uncover the determinants of specificity for cytochrome CYP2C9, a novel library of benzbromarone (bzbr) inhibitors was used to reevaluate its pharmacophore. CoMSIA was used with the bzbr li...

As a G-protein coupled receptor, the 5-hydroxytryptamine 2A (5-HT2A) receptor is known for its critical role in the cognitive, behavioural and physiological functions, and thus is a primary molecular target to treat psychiatric diseases, including especially depression. With purpose to explore the structural traits affecting the inhibitory activity, currently a dataset of 109 arylpiperazine der...