title: Three-dimensional pharmacophore hypotheses of octopamine/tyramine agonists which inhibit [1-14C]acetate incorporation in Plodia interpunctella.
abstract: Three-dimensional pharmacophore hypotheses were built from a set of 36 octopamine (OA)/tyramine (TA) agonists responsible for the inhibition of sex-pheromone production in Plodia interpunctella. Among the ten chemical-featured models generated by a program Catalyst/Hypo, hypotheses including hydrogen-bond acceptor (HBA), hydrogen-bond acceptor aliphatic (HBAl), hydrophobic (Hp), hydrophobic aromatic (HpAr) and hydrophobic aliphatic (HpAl) features were considered to be important and predictive in evaluating OA/TA agonists. Active agonists mapped well onto all the features of the hypothesis such as HBA, HBAl, Hp, HpAr and HpAl features. On the other hand, inactive compounds were shown to be poorly capable of achieving an energetically favorable conformation shared by the active molecules in order to fit the 3-D chemical-feature pharmacophore models. Those hypotheses are considered to be used in designing new leads for hopefully more active compounds. Further research on the comparison of models from the agonists may help elucidate the mechanisms of OA/TA receptor-ligand interactions.
authors.affiliation: Division of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, Graduate School, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan. ahirasim@agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Akinori
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hirashima
authors.forename: Tomohiko
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Eiraku
authors.forename: Yoko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shigeta
authors.forename: Eiichi
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kuwano
mesh_terms: D000085:Acetates / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D002250:Carbon Radioisotopes; D015195:Drug Design; D006860:Hydrogen Bonding; D057927:Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions; D008958:Models, Molecular; D015394:Molecular Structure; D009036:Moths / Q000378:metabolism*; D009655:Octopamine / Q000819:agonists* / Q000494:pharmacology; D021281:Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship; D012724:Sex Attractants / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000096:biosynthesis; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship; D014439:Tyramine / Q000819:agonists* / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D000085:Acetates; D002250:Carbon Radioisotopes; D012724:Sex Attractants; D009655:Octopamine; D014439:Tyramine