title: Three-dimensional quantitative structure-activity relationship of melatonin receptor ligands: a comparative molecular field analysis study.
abstract: A three-dimensional quantitative structure-activity relationship using the comparative molecular field analysis (CoMFA) paradigm applied to 57 melatonin receptor ligands belonging to diverse structural families was performed. The compounds studied which have been synthesized previously and reported to be active at chicken brain melatonin receptors were divided into a training set of 48 molecules and a test set of 9 molecules. As most of these compounds have a highly flexible ethylamido side chain, the alignments were based on the most sterically constrained molecule which contains a tricyclic phenalene structure. This tricyclic compound can adopt an axial and an equatorial conformation. Two different molecular superpositions representing possible positioning within the receptor site have been suggested previously. CoMFA was tentatively used to discriminate between alternate hypothetical biologically active conformation and between possible positionings. The best 3D quantitative structure-activity relationship model found yields significant cross-validated, conventional, and predictive r2 values equal to 0.798, 0.967, and 0.76, respectively, along with an average absolute error of prediction of 0.25 log units. These results suggest that the active conformation of the most flexible molecules including melatonin is in a folded form if we consider the spatial position of the ethylamido side chain relative to the aromatic ring.
authors.affiliation: Biocis (CNRS, ura 1843), Faculté de Pharmacie, Université de Paris-Sud, Chãtenay-Malabry, France.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sicsic
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Serraz
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Andrieux
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Brémont
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mathé-Allainmat
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Poncet
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Langlois
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000187:drug effects; D002645:Chickens; D008024:Ligands; D008550:Melatonin / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D015394:Molecular Structure; D011083:Polycyclic Compounds / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface / Q000378:metabolism*; D018160:Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear / Q000378:metabolism*; D044094:Receptors, Melatonin; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship
chemical_list: D008024:Ligands; D011083:Polycyclic Compounds; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface; D018160:Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear; D044094:Receptors, Melatonin; D008550:Melatonin