title: An accurate nonlinear QSAR model for the antitumor activities of chloroethylnitrosoureas using neural networks.
abstract: The quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) studies are investigated in a series of chloroethylnitrosoureas (CENUs) acting as alkylating agents of tumors by neural networks (NNs). The QSAR model is described inaccurately by the traditional multiple linear regression (MLR) model for the substitution of CENUs at N-3, whose characteristics play key roles in the biological activity. A nonlinear QSAR study is undertaken by a three-layered NN model, using molecular descriptors that are known to be responsible for the antitumor activity to optimize the input variables of the MLR model. The results demonstrate that NN models present the relationship between antitumor activity and molecular descriptors clearly, and they yield predictions in excellent agreement with the experiment's obtained values (R(2)=0.983). The R(2) value is 0.983 for the 5-8-1 NN model, compared with 0.506 for the MLR model, and the nonlinear model is able to account for 98.3% of the variance of antitumor activities.
authors.affiliation: College of Life Science and Bio-engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Yu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Qin
authors.forename: Hongfei
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Deng
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.forename: Rugang
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zhong
mesh_terms: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000493:pharmacokinetics / Q000494:pharmacology; D005038:Ethylnitrosourea / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000493:pharmacokinetics / Q000494:pharmacology; D008958:Models, Molecular; D016571:Neural Networks, Computer; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D021281:Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D005038:Ethylnitrosourea