title: Atom- and bond-based 2D TOMOCOMD-CARDD approach and ligand-based virtual screening for the drug discovery of new tyrosinase inhibitors.
abstract: Two-dimensional atom- and bond-based TOMOCOMD-CARDD descriptors and linear discriminant analysis (LDA) are used in this report to perform a quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) study of tyrosinase-inhibitory activity. A database of inhibitors of the enzyme is collected for this study, within 246 highly dissimilar molecules presenting antityrosinase activity. In total, 7 discriminant functions are obtained by using the whole set of atom- and bond-based 2D indices. All the LDA-based QSAR models show accuracies above 90% in the training set and values of the Matthews correlation coefficient (C) varying from 0.85 to 0.90. The external validation set shows globally good classifications between 89% and 91% and C values ranging from 0.75 to 0.81. Finally, QSAR models are used in the selection/identification of the 20 new dicoumarins subset to search for tyrosinase inhibitory activity. Theoretical and experimental results show good correspondence between one another. It is important to remark that most compounds in this series exhibit a more potent inhibitory activity against the mushroom tyrosinase enzyme than the reference compound, Kojic acid (IC(50) = 16.67 muM), resulting in a novel nucleus base (lead) with antityrosinase activity, and this could serve as a starting point for the drug discovery of novel tyrosinase inhibitor lead compounds. ( Journal of Biomolecular Screening 2008:1014-1024).
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Chemistry-Pharmacy, Central University of Las Villas, Santa Clara, Cuba. gmaikelc@yahoo.es
authors.forename: Gerardo M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Casañola-Martín
authors.forename: Yovani
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Marrero-Ponce
authors.forename: Mahmud
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tareq Hassan Khan
authors.forename: Francisco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Torrens
authors.forename: Facundo
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pérez-Giménez
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rescigno
mesh_terms: D016000:Cluster Analysis; D019295:Computational Biology; D001728:Dicumarol / Q000737:chemistry; D016002:Discriminant Analysis; D055808:Drug Discovery / Q000379:methods*; D008024:Ligands; D010455:Peptides / Q000032:analysis*; D021281:Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D054852:Small Molecule Libraries / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D008024:Ligands; D010455:Peptides; D054852:Small Molecule Libraries; D001728:Dicumarol