title: QSAR of cytochrome inhibitors.
abstract: Cytochrome P450 (CYP450) enzymes are predominantly involved in the Phase I metabolism of xenobiotics. Metabolic inhibition and induction can give rise to clinically important drug-drug interactions. Metabolic stability is a prerequisite for sustaining the therapeutically relevant concentrations, and very often drug candidates are sacrificed due to poor metabolic profiles. Computational tools such as quantitative structure-activity relationships are widely used to study different metabolic end points successfully to accelerate the drug discovery process. There are a lot of computational studies on clinically important CYPs already reported in recent years. But other clinically significant families are to yet be explored computationally. Powerfulness of quantitative structure-activity relationship will drive computational chemists to develop new potent and selective inhibitors of different classes of CYPs for the treatment of different diseases with least drug-drug interactions. Furthermore, there is a need to enhance the accuracy, interpretability and confidence in the computational models in accelerating the drug discovery pathways.
authors.affiliation: Jadavpur University, Division of Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Drug Theoretics and Cheminformatics Lab, Kolkata 700 032, India. kunalroy_in@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Kunal
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Roy
authors.forename: Partha Pratim
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Roy
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019295:Computational Biology; D065607:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System / Q000378:metabolism; D015195:Drug Design; D004347:Drug Interactions; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006801:Humans; D021281:Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship; D015262:Xenobiotics / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D065607:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors; D015262:Xenobiotics; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System