title: Quantitative structure-activity relationship studies on inhibition of HERG potassium channels.
abstract: The human ether-a-go-go-related gene (HERG) protein forms the ion channel responsible for the rapidly acting delayed rectifier potassium current, I(Kr), and its blockade is a significant contributor to prolongation of the QT interval. Using descriptors which have clear physicochemical meanings and are familiar to medicinal chemists, we have carried out 2D-quantitative structure-activity relationship (2D-QSAR) studies on 104 HERG channel blockers with diverse structures collected from the literature, and we have formulated interpretable models to guide chemical-modification studies and virtual screening. Statistically significant descriptors were selected by a genetic algorithm, and the final model included the octanol/water partition coefficient, topological polar surface area, diameter, summed surface area of atoms with partial charges from -0.25 to -0.20, and an indicator variable representing the experimental conditions. The statistics were r = 0.839, r2 = 0.704, q2 = 0.671, s = 0.763, and F = 46.6. The correspondence of the molecular determinants derived from the 2D-QSAR models with the 3D structural characteristics of the putative binding site in a homology-modeled HERG channel is also discussed.
authors.affiliation: Discovery Research Laboratories, Nippon Shinyaku Co., Ltd. 14, Kisshoin, Kyoto 601-8550, Japan.
authors.forename: Katsumi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yoshida
authors.forename: Tomoko
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Niwa
mesh_terms: D051638:Ether-A-Go-Go Potassium Channels / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008958:Models, Molecular; D011487:Protein Conformation; D021281:Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship
chemical_list: D051638:Ether-A-Go-Go Potassium Channels; C092509:KCNH6 protein, human