Prediction of cytochrome P450 3A4, 2D6, and 2C9 inhibitors and substrates by using support vector machines

Statistical learning methods have been used in developing filters for predicting inhibitors of two P450 isoenzymes, CYP3A4 and CYP2D6. This work explores the use of different statistical learning methods for predicting inhibitors of these enzymes and an additional P450 enzyme, CYP2C9, and the substrates of the three P450 isoenzymes. Two consensus support vector machine (CSVM) methods, "positive majority" (PM-CSVM) and "positive probability" (PP-CSVM), were used in this work. These methods were first tested for the prediction of inhibitors of CYP3A4 and CYP2D6 by using a significantly higher number of inhibitors and noninhibitors than that used in earlier studies. They were then applied to the prediction of inhibitors of CYP2C9 and substrates of the three enzymes. Both methods predict inhibitors of CYP3A4 and CYP2D6 at a similar level of accuracy as those of earlier studies. For classification of inhibitors of CYP2C9, the best CSVM method gives an accuracy of 88.9% for inhibitors and 96.3% for noninhibitors. The accuracies for classification of substrates and nonsubstrates of CYP3A4, CYP2D6, and CYP2C9 are 98.2 and 90.9%, 96.6 and 94.4%, and 85.7 and 98.8%, respectively. Both CSVM methods are potentially useful as filters for predicting inhibitors and substrates of P450 isoenzymes. These methods generally give better accuracies than single SVM classification systems, and the performance of the PP-CSVM method is slightly better than that of the PM-CSVM method.     

一种新的氨基酸描述符及其在肽QSAR中的应用

从20种天然氨基酸的41个randic molecular profiles非零描述符、44个eigenvalue based indices非零描述符和47个walk and path counts非零描述符分别进行主成分分析,得出一种新的氨基酸描述符-SVREW。将其应用于血管紧张素转化酶(ACE)抑制二肽和ACE抑制三肽、苦味二肽和苦味四肽、后叶催产素类似物、HLA-A*0201限制性CTL表位肽的结构表征,应用多元线性回归(MLR)建立定量构效关系模型,同时采用内部与外部双重验证的方法验证模型的稳定性。所建ACE抑制二肽、ACE抑制三肽、苦味二肽、苦味四肽、后叶催产素类似物、HLA-A*0201限制性CTL表位肽的模型复相关系数(R2cum)分别为0.994,0.797,0.948,0.878,0.686,0.720;留一法交互校验复相关系数(R2cv)分别为0.955,0.859,0.879,0.958,0.796,0.843;外部样本校验相关系数(Q2ext)分别为0.990,0.954,0.890,0.950,0.748,0.773。经研究表明SVREW描述符用于肽分子结构表征所建模型的稳定性与预测能力均较好,有望成为多肽定量构效关系研究中一种有效的结构表征方法,可对新药物的发现和研究提供指导。