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Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 2014

QSPR of antioxidant phenolic compounds using quantum chemical descriptors

Molecular Simulation, 2011

Accelerated systemic free radical production poses a serious problem to healthy living. Since lon... more Accelerated systemic free radical production poses a serious problem to healthy living. Since long, phenolic antioxidants have been studied for their ability to react with these toxic radicals. The present work deals with a series of substituted phenolic derivatives with a wide range of antioxidant property data. Quantitative structure–property relationship models have been developed correlating the antioxidant properties of these molecules with quantum chemical descriptors such as Mulliken charges of the common atoms and quantum ...

Scientia Pharmaceutica, 2013

The inability of the systemic antioxidants to alleviate the exacerbation of free radical formatio... more The inability of the systemic antioxidants to alleviate the exacerbation of free radical formation from metabolic outputs and environmental pollutants claims an urgent demand for the identification and design of new chemical entities with potent antioxidant activity. In the present work, different QSAR approaches have been utilized for identifying the essential structural attributes imparting a potential antioxidant activity profile of the coumarin derivatives. The descriptorbased QSAR model provides a quantitative outline regarding the structural prerequisites of the molecules, while 3D pharmacophore and HQSAR models emphasize the favourable spatial arrangement of the various chemical features and the crucial molecular fragments, respectively. All the models infer that the fused benzene ring and the oxygen atom of the pyran ring constituting the parent coumarin nucleus capture the prime pharmacophoric features, imparting superior antioxidant activity to the molecules. The developed models may serve as indispensable query tools for screening untested molecules belonging to the class of coumarin derivatives.

Predictive chemometric modeling of DPPH free radical-scavenging activity of azole derivatives using 2D- and 3D-quantitative structure-activity relationship tools

Future Medicinal Chemistry, 2013

Background: The endogenous antioxidants often fail to manage the systemic free radical overload r... more Background: The endogenous antioxidants often fail to manage the systemic free radical overload resulting from extensive exposure to environmental pollutants and improper diet. Such free-radical burden over a prolonged period leads to oxidative stress, which in turn, promotes an array of fatal diseases. Results: Five different in silico methodologies have been employed here for a series of azole derivatives, which identify the essential structural attributes of the molecules and quantify the contributions of the prime molecular prerequisites for designing compounds with improved antioxidant activity. Conclusion: The importance of the different constituents is quantitatively analyzed using the descriptor-based quantitative structure–activity relationship and group-based quantitative structure–activity relationship models while the pharmacophore, comparative molecular similarity index analysis and hologram quantitative structure–activity relationship models serve as essential query tools for screening of azole compounds in order to select potent antioxidant molecules.

Advances in quantitative structure–activity relationship models of antimalarials

Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery, 2010

Malaria still remains one of the deadliest infectious diseases having a tremendous morbidity and ... more Malaria still remains one of the deadliest infectious diseases having a tremendous morbidity and mortality impact in the developing world. Computational tools such as quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) studies help medicinal chemists to understand the consistent relationship between antimalarial activity and molecular properties, and design new potent and selective ligands that may act on different classes of antimalarial drug targets so that these compounds may eventually be synthesized and assayed. In the present review, we focus on the current knowledge of QSARs and pharmacophore models of different classes of antimalarial drugs. In this context, we also review the reported docking studies of antimalarial compounds acting on different targets to explore the interaction pattern at the molecular level. The reader will gain an overview of advances of QSAR and related theoretical models of antimalarial drug compounds. This review infers that most of the reported QSAR models are analog based QSARs with a limited applicability domain, but QSAR models based on diverse chemical structures acting on a particular target have been reported in very few cases.

Molecules, 2010

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Exploring quantitative structure–activity relationship studies of antioxidant phenolic compounds obtained from traditional Chinese medicinal plants

Molecular Simulation, 2010

In the present work, quantitative structure–activity relationship (QSAR) models have been built f... more In the present work, quantitative structure–activity relationship (QSAR) models have been built for a wide variety of antioxidant phenolic compounds obtained from traditional Chinese medicinal plants, with their Trolox equivalent antioxidant capacity measured using 1, 1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radical and 2, 2′-azinobis-(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulphonic acid) radical (ABTS√+) assay methods. Non-linear models obtained using genetic partial least-squares technique were acceptable both in terms of internal and ...

Lead Hopping for Pf DHODH Inhibitors as Antimalarials Based on Pharmacophore Mapping, Molecular Docking and Comparative Binding Energy Analysis (COMBINE): A Three-Layered Virtual Screening Approach

Molecular Informatics, 2012

In silico development, validation and comparison of predictive QSAR models for lipid peroxidation inhibitory activity of cinnamic acid and caffeic acid derivatives using multiple chemometric and cheminformatics tools

Journal of Molecular Modeling, 2012

The design and development of antioxidant molecules have lately gained a great deal of focus whic... more The design and development of antioxidant molecules have lately gained a great deal of focus which is attributed to their immense biomedicinal importance in combating the free radical associated health hazards. In a situation to replenish the endogenous antioxidant loss, synthetic molecules with potent antioxidant activity is demanded. The present work thus aims at in silico modeling of antioxidant molecules that may facilitate in searching and designing of new chemical entities with enhanced activity profile. A series of cinnamic acid and caffeic acid derivatives having the ability to inhibit lipid peroxidation have been modeled in the present work. Three different types of models were developed using different chemometric and cheminformatics tools to identify the essential structural attributes: (a) descriptor based QSAR models, (b) 3D pharmacophore models and (c) HQSAR (hologram QSAR) models. For the conventional QSAR modeling, descriptors belonging to different categories [quantum chemical descriptors (Mulliken charges of the common atoms of the molecules), thermodynamic descriptors, electronic descriptors, structural descriptors and spatial descriptors] were calculated for the development of statistically significant as well as well interpretable quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) models. Two different chemometric tools [genetic function approximation (GFA) and genetic partial least squares (G/PLS)] were employed for the development of the QSAR models. The 3D pharmacophore model focused on the essential pharmacophoric features while the HQSAR model implicated the prime structural fragments that were necessitated for the optimal anti-lipid peroxidative activity of the molecules. All the models were validated based on internal, external and overall validation statistics. Randomization was performed in order to ensure the absence of chance correlation in the developed models. Among all models, the descriptor-based model developed using the GFA-spline technique yielded the most satisfactory results. The results obtained from all the models corroborate well with each other and chiefly signify the importance of the ketonic oxygen of the amide/ acid fragment and the ethereal oxygen substituted on the parent phenyl ring of the molecules under study. Thus the models can efficiently be utilized for extensive screening of large datasets and their subsequent activity prediction.

Journal of Computational Chemistry, 2013

Quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) techniques have found wide application in the... more Quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) techniques have found wide application in the fields of drug design, property modeling, and toxicity prediction of untested chemicals. A rigorous validation of the developed models plays the key role for their successful application in prediction for new compounds. The r m 2 metrics introduced by Roy et al. have been extensively used by different research groups for validation of regression-based QSAR models. This concept has been further advanced here with introduction of scaling of response data prior to computation of r m 2. Further, a web application (accessible from http://aptsoftware.co.in/rmsquare/ and http://203.200.173.43:8080/rmsquare/) for calculation of the r m 2 metrics has been introduced here. The present study reports that the web application can be easily used for computation of r m 2 metrics provided observed and QSARpredicted data for a set of compounds are available. Further, scaling of response data is recommended prior to r m 2 calculation. V

Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2012

Flavour and Fragrance Journal, 2013

Nowadays, much interest is shown in the prediction of different organoleptic properties of molecu... more Nowadays, much interest is shown in the prediction of different organoleptic properties of molecules for their prominent use in a variety of formulations and food products. Against this background, cheminformatics modelling was done in the present work for the development of predictive models for the olfactory threshold (log T) of a series of 74 pyrazine derivatives employing in silico techniques such as genetic function algorithm (GFA) and genetic partial least squares algorithm (G/PLS). Different categories of descriptors were calculated for the work. After validating the models both internally and externally, a parabolic GFA-spline model was selected as the best model which showed significant predictive quality [ R 2 pred = 0.822, average r 2 m test ð Þ = 0.641, Δr 2 m test ð Þ = 0.019]. Interpretation of the descriptors concluded that increased hydrophobic surface area, along with an increase in the positive charge weighted solvent accessible surface area (as interpreted from the Jurs_DPSA_2 descriptor) in the molecules, provides a low value of log T. Again, the presence of an isopropyl group and electron richness of the molecules significantly influences the property profile (log T) of the molecules. Finally, 27 pyrazine derivatives were designed based on the present analysis and good in silico prediction values for odour threshold, i.e. low log T values were obtained from the developed model. Thus, use of this optimized quantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR) model may be used to screen molecule databases as well as modify the structures for selection of potent entities.

Chemometric modeling of free radical scavenging activity of flavone derivatives

European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2010

The present work deals with the chemometric modeling of antioxidant molecules belonging to the cl... more The present work deals with the chemometric modeling of antioxidant molecules belonging to the class of flavone derivatives employing the quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) technique. A QSAR model was initially built based on the Fujita-Ban method with the training set molecules. Due to the inability of the Fujita-Ban type model to predict satisfactorily the activity of the test set molecules, further QSAR models were built using different chemometric tools (genetic function approximation, genetic partial least squares) with additional descriptors viz., topological, structural, spatial and quantum chemical ones. The statistically significant models thus developed suggest that hydroxy and methoxy substituents at certain specified positions of the A and B rings of the flavone moiety chiefly influence the antioxidant activity of these molecules.

Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, 2012

2 (rank) metric with the Spearman's rank correlation coefficient inferred that the new metric cou... more 2 (rank) metric with the Spearman's rank correlation coefficient inferred that the new metric could aptly perform the rank-order prediction for the test data set and can be utilized as an additional validation tool, besides the conventional metrics, for assessing the acceptability and predictive ability of a QSAR/QSPR model.

Further exploring rm2 metrics for validation of QSPR models

Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, 2011

Abstract Quantitative structure–property relationship (QSPR) models are widely used for predictio... more Abstract Quantitative structure–property relationship (QSPR) models are widely used for prediction of properties, activities and/or toxicities of new chemicals. Validation strategies check the reliability of predictions of QSPR models. The classical metrics like Q 2 and R 2 pred (Q 2 ext) are commonly used, besides other techniques, for internal validation (mostly leave-one-out) and external validation (test set validation) respectively. Recently, we have proposed a set of novel rm 2 metrics which has been extensively used by us and other ...

Chemical Biology & Drug Design, 2009

Quantification of contributions of different molecular fragments for antioxidant activity of coumarin derivatives based on QSAR analyses

Canadian Journal of Chemistry, 2013

Attempts have been made in the present work using in silico techniques for identification of esse... more Attempts have been made in the present work using in silico techniques for identification of essential structural features imparting antioxidant potential to naturally available coumarin molecules and their synthetic derivatives. Four different types of modeling tools have been employed for the qualitative and quantitative assessment of the molecular fragments constituting the biological pharmacophore. The descriptor-based quantitative structure–activity relationship (QSAR) and group-based QSAR (G-QSAR) models provide a quantitative estimation of the substituent requirements and the chemical nature of the parent moiety. Subsequently, 3D pharmacophore and hologram QSAR (HQSAR) models enable identification of the key molecular components necessary for the antioxidant potency to the molecules. All of the different models infer the importance of the hydrogen bond acceptor ketonic fragment for interaction of the antioxidant molecules with the neighbouring toxic radicals. Additionally, th...

Introduction of r m 2(rank) metric incorporating rank-order predictions as an additional tool for validation of QSAR/QSPR models

Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, Jun 18, 2012

In silico techniques involving the development of quantitative regression models have been extens... more In silico techniques involving the development of quantitative regression models have been extensively used for prediction of activity, property and toxicity of new chemicals. The acceptability and subsequent applicability of the models for predictions is determined based on several internal and external validation statistics. Among different validation metrics, Q 2 and R 2 pred represent the classical metrics for internal validation and external validation respectively. Additionally, the rm 2 metrics introduced by Roy and coworkers ...

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Journal of Molecular Modeling, 2010

Predictive pharmacophore models have been developed for a series of arylamino-substituted benzo[b... more Predictive pharmacophore models have been developed for a series of arylamino-substituted benzo[b] thiophenes exhibiting free radical scavenging activity. 3D pharmacophore models were generated using a set of 20 training set compounds and subsequently validated by mapping 6 test set compounds using Discovery Studio 2.1 software. Further model validation was performed by randomizing the data using Fischer's validation technique at the 95% confidence level. The most predictive pharmacophore model developed using the conformers obtained from the BEST method showed a correlation coefficient (r) of 0.942 and consisted of three features: hydrogen bond donor, hydrogen bond acceptor and aromatic ring. Acceptable values of external validation parameters, like R 2 pred (0.853) and r 2 m test ð Þ (0.844), also implied that the external predictivity of the model was significant. The development of further pharmacophore models using conformers obtained from the FAST method yielded a few models with good predictivity, with the best one (r=0.904) consisting of two features: hydrogen bond donor and hydrogen bond acceptor. Significant values of external validation parameters , R 2 pred (0.913) and r 2 m test ð Þ (0.821), also reflect the high predictive ability of the model. Again, Fischer validation results implied that the models developed were robust enough and their good results were not based on mere chance. These validation approaches indicate the reliability of the predictive abilities of the 3D pharmacophore models developed here, which may thus be further utilized as a 3D query tool in the virtual screening of new chemical entities with potent antioxidant activities.