title: Quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSARs) in inhibitors of various cytochromes P450: the importance of compound lipophilicity.
abstract: The results of extensive quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) analyses on 15 series of cytochrome P450 inhibitors, covering a total of 7 enzymes and 199 compounds, are reported. In general, it is found that lipophilicity represents the most important single factor in describing differences in inhibitory potency towards P450 enzymes. In two instances, this relationship is parabolic in nature but, by and large, the logarithm of inhibitory activity relates linearly with log P, where P is the octanol-water partition coefficient. On occasions, other parameters are involved in the QSAR expressions but there are many examples where either log P or its ionization-corrected equivalent, log D7.4, are the sole structural descriptors of inhibition. The correlations presented exhibit a range in R value from 0.85 to 0.99, where R is the correlation coefficient, and it is found that R is greater than 0.9 in 80% of the QSARs presented. It is apparent from these findings, therefore, that compound lipophilicity plays a major role in the ability of xenobiotics to inhibit enzymes of the cytochrome P450 superfamily, presumably due to the essentially hydrophobic nature of the active site region.
authors: School of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH, UK. d.lewis@surrey.ac.uk
authors: David F V
authors: DF
authors: Lewis
authors: Brian G
authors: BG
authors: Lake
authors: Maurice
authors: M
authors: Dickins
mesh_terms: D065607:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System / Q000378:metabolism; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006860:Hydrogen Bonding; D021281:Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship; D013379:Substrate Specificity
chemical_list: D065607:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System