A quantitative structure-activity relationship analysis of the 2-methylquinazolin-4-one and quinazolin-4-imine derivatives, well-known antifolate thymidylate synthase (TYMS) inhibitors, has been performed in the range IC = 0.4÷380000.0 nmoL/L using the GUSAR 2013 program. Based on the MNA and QNA descriptors using the self-consistent regression, 6 statistically significant consensus models for predicting the IC numerical values have been constructed. These models demonstrate high and moderate prognostic accuracies for the training and external validation test sets, respectively. The molecular fragments of TYMS inhibitors regulating their antitumor activity are identified. The obtained data open opportunities for developing novel promising inhibitors of TYMS.
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Centro de Química Médica, Facultad de Medicina Clínica Alemana, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago 7780272, Chile.
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December 2024
Faculty of Pharmacy, "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Traian Vuia 6, 020956 Bucharest, Romania.
Aurora kinase B (AurB) is a pivotal regulator of mitosis, making it a compelling target for cancer therapy. Despite significant advances in protein kinase inhibitor development, there are currently no AurB inhibitors readily available for therapeutic use. This study introduces a machine learning-assisted drug repurposing framework integrating quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) modeling, molecular fingerprints-based classification, molecular docking, and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations.
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January 2025
Independent Researcher, 1802 Stanford Avenue, Duluth, MN 55811, USA.
The development of chirality descriptors for quantitative chirality structure-activity relationship (QCSAR) modeling has always attracted attention, owing to the importance of chiral molecules in pharmaceutical, agriculture, food, and fragrance industries, and environmental toxicology. The utility of a multidimensional space of novel relative chirality indices (RCIs) in the QCSAR modeling of twenty CCR2 antagonists is reported upon in this paper. The numerical characterization of chirality by the RCI approach gives a large pool of chirality descriptors with different degrees of mutual correlation (the correlation coefficient among the computed descriptors varied from 0.
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January 2025
Research & Development, Kongo Chemical Co., Ltd, Himata, Toyama 9300912, Japan.
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