QSAR prediction of antagonistic activity of PCBs towards human PXR by using heuristic method and best subset modeling

Polychlorinated biphenyls(PCBs) can antagonize human pregnane X receptor(hPXR) activation.Such chemicals could pose a serious threat to the reproductive and developmental ability of humans.The quantitative structure activity relationship(QSAR) provides a promising method for the estimation of PCBs’ antagonistic activity.In this investigation,a QSAR model was developed by using heuristic method and best subset modeling(r2 = 0.873,q2LOO=0.742).The built model was validated externally by splitting the original data set into training and prediction sets.The results of the model derived are as follows:r2 = 0.907,q2LOO=0.709,r2pred=0.676,suggesting developed QSAR model had good robustness and predictive ability.The applicability domain(AD) of the model was assessed by Williams plot.The antagonistic activity(?logKi) of 108 PCBs,which are unavailable by experiment at present,was predicted within the applicability domain of the model.The critical structural features related to the activity of PCBs were identified.     

后叶催产素的定量构效关系研究

基于氨基酸物化性质的描述子矢量VHSE, 对21个后叶催产素类似物进行结构表征. 经逐步回归与偏最小二乘相结合的变量筛选技术, 根据模型的外部预测结果, 筛选得到一个最优的9变量组合. 应用该变量组合对21个后叶催产素类似物的促宫缩活性进行偏最小二乘建模, 模型复相关系数R2为92.6%, 留一法和留组法交互验证Q2分别为78.3%和79.4%. 结果表明, 后叶催产素的促宫缩活性主要与第3号氨基酸残基的疏水性、立体结构和电性性质以及第8号氨基酸残基的电性特征密切相关.     

电拓扑状态预测多氯二苯并噻吩及噻吩砜化合物的气相色谱保留指数

以原子类型电拓扑状态指数(ETSI)有效表征了135 个多氯二苯并噻吩(PCDT)和135 个多氯二苯并噻吩砜(PCDTO₂)的分子结构, 应用基于预测的变量选择与模型化(VSMP)方法建立PCDT 和PCDTO₂ 化合物在DB-5 气相色谱柱上的气相色谱保留指数(RI)与分子结构(ETSI)的定量相关模型, 模型的相关系数r² 分别为0.9939 和0.9729, LOO 交叉验证相关系数 q² 分别为0.9921 和0.9692. 为验证模型稳定性和预测能力, 应用17 个PCDT 和PCDTO₂ 训练集样本构建的QSRR 模型的r² 分别为0.9959 和0.9783, LOO 交叉验证相关系数 q² 分别为0.9921 和0.9740, 说明模型具有良好的稳定性. 以此模型预测外部8 个检验集及110 个预测集的RI 值, 8 个检验集样本的结果表明训练集模型具有良好预测能力.     

A QSAR study and molecular design of benzothiazole derivatives as potent anticancer agents

A quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) of a series of benzothiazole derivatives showing a potent and selective cytotoxicity against a tumorigenic cell line has been studied by using the density functional theory (DFT), molecular mechanics (MM ) and statistical methods, and the QSAR equation was established via a correlation analysis and a stepwise regression analysis. A new scheme determining outliers by "leave-one-out" (LOO) cross-validation coefficient (q2n-i) was suggested and successfully used. In the established optimal equation (excluding two outliers), the steric parameter (MRR) and the net charge (QFR) of the first atom of the substituent (R), as well as the square of hydrophobic parameter (lgP)2 of the whole molecule, are the main independent factors contributing to the anticancer activities of the compounds. The fitting correlation coefficient (R2) and the cross-validation coefficient (q2) values are 0.883 and 0.797, respectively. It indicates that this model has a significantly statistical quality and an excellent prediction ability. Based on the QSAR studies, 4 new compounds with high predicted anticancer activities have been theoretically designed and they are expected to be confirmed experimentally.     

Comparative structural connectivity spectra analysis (CoSCoSA) models of steroid binding to the corticosteroid binding globulin

A three-dimensional quantitative spectrometric data-activity relationship (3D-QSDAR) model was developed that is built by combining NMR spectral information with structural information in a 3D-connectivity matrix. The 3D-connectivity matrix is built by displaying all possible carbon-to-carbon connections with their assigned carbon NMR chemical shifts and distances between the carbons. Selected 2D (13)C-(13)C COrrelation SpectroscopY (COSY) (through-bond nearest neighbors) and selected theoretical 2D (13)C-(13)C distance connectivity spectral slices from the 3D-connectivity matrix to produce a relationship among the spectral patterns for 30 steroids binding to corticosteroid binding globulin. We call this technique a comparative structural connectivity spectra analysis (CoSCoSA) modeling. A CoSCoSA principal component linear regression model based on the combination of (13)C-(13)C COSY and (13)C-(13)C distance spectra principal components (PCs) had an r(2) of 0.96 and a leave-one-out (LOO) cross-validation q(2) of 0.92. A CoSCoSA parallel distributed artificial neural network (PD-ANN) model based on the combination of (13)C-(13)C COSY and (13)C-(13)C distance spectra had an r(2) of 0.96, a leave-three-out q(3)(2) of 0.78, and a leave-ten-out q(10)(2) of 0.73. CoSCoSA modeling attempts to uniquely combine the quantum mechanics information from the NMR chemical shifts with internal molecular atom-to-atom distances into an accurate modeling technique. The CoSCoSA modeling technique has the flexibility and accuracy to outperform the cross-validated variance q(2) of previously published quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR), quantitative spectral data-activity relationship (QSDAR), self-organizing map (SOM), and electrotopological state (E-state) models.     

取代喹啉类化合物抗菌活性的定量构效关系及分子设计

采用密度泛函理论(DFT)和逐步回归分析法对15种新合成的取代喹啉类化合物进行了定量构效关系(QSAR)研究. 在B3LYP/6-31G(d,p)水平上计算了取代喹啉的量子化学参数, 通过逐步多元回归分析筛选出影响抗菌活性的主要因素, 建立了定量构效关系方程, 并用留一法交叉分析了模型的稳定性及预测能力. 结果表明, C5的亲核电子密度fNC5及C9-N1的键级BC9-N1是影响喹啉类化合物抗金黄色葡萄球菌活性的主要因素, 所得模型对该类化合物抗菌活性有较好的预测效果. 同时基于QSAR研究结果设计了4个活性较高的新喹啉衍生物.     

Rational selection of training and test sets for the development of validated QSAR models

Quantitative Structure–Activity Relationship (QSAR) models are used increasingly to screen chemical databases and/or virtual chemical libraries for potentially bioactive molecules. These developments emphasize the importance of rigorous model validation to ensure that the models have acceptable predictive power. Using k nearest neighbors (kNN) variable selection QSAR method for the analysis of several datasets, we have demonstrated recently that the widely accepted leave-one-out (LOO) cross-validated R² (q²) is an inadequate characteristic to assess the predictive ability of the models [Golbraikh, A., Tropsha, A. Beware of q2! J. Mol. Graphics Mod. 20, 269-276, (2002)]. Herein, we provide additional evidence that there exists no correlation between the values of q ² for the training set and accuracy of prediction (R ²) for the test set and argue that this observation is a general property of any QSAR model developed with LOO cross-validation. We suggest that external validation using rationally selected training and test sets provides a means to establish a reliable QSAR model. We propose several approaches to the division of experimental datasets into training and test sets and apply them in QSAR studies of 48 functionalized amino acid anticonvulsants and a series of 157 epipodophyllotoxin derivatives with antitumor activity. We formulate a set of general criteria for the evaluation of predictive power of QSAR models.     

On QSAR Study of Stereoselectivity for Wittig Reaction

1INTRODUCTION Witting reaction is an important and well-known organic reaction.In this reaction system,phospho-nium ylides react with aldehydes or ketones to gene-rate olefins and phosphonium oxides.Obviously,the position of double bond in olefins is exactly the po-sition of carbonyl group in the reactants,so there are no other position isomers in products.Due to this advantage,Witting reaction has been widely used in organic synthesis[1].Witting reaction could introduce double bond to c…