Due to the widespread prevalence, deoxyuridine triphosphatase (UTPase) is considered by modern biochemists and physicians as a promising target for the development of drugs with a wide range of activities. The therapeutic effect of these drugs will be due to suppression of DNA biosynthesis in various viruses, bacteria and protozoa. In order to rationalize the search for new dUTPase inhibitors, domestic and foreign researchers are actively using the QSAR methodology at the selection stage of hit compounds. However, the practical application of this methodology is impossible without existence of valid QSAR models. With the use of the GUSAR 2013 program, a quantitative analysis of the relationship between the structure and efficacy of 135 dUTPase inhibitors based on uracil derivatives was performed in the IC50 range of 30¸185000 nmol/L. Six statistically significant valid consensus models, characterized by high descriptive ability and moderate prognostic ability on the structures of training and test samples, are constructed. To build valid QSAR models for dUTPase inhibitors can use QNA or MNA descriptors and their combinations in a consensus approach.
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Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences, Ministry of Ayush, India.
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School of Pharmacy, Queen's University Belfast, Medical Biological Centre, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast BT9 7LB, UK; School of Chemical Sciences, Dublin City University, Collins Avenue, Dublin 9, Ireland. Electronic address:
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Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Natural Products, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda 151401, India. Electronic address:
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