Fragment-based QSAR model toward the selection of versatile anti-sarcoma leads.
A sarcoma is a type of cancer which is originated from the connective tissue cells. With the time, several sarcomas have become resistant to the current anti-tumoral drugs. Many works have been reported in order to explain some mechanisms of resistance in different types of sarcomas and around 2000 compounds have been tested as anti-sarcoma agents against several sarcoma cell lines. However, there is no an available methodology for the rational design of compounds with anti-sarcoma activity. The present work develops a unified fragment-based approach by employing a multi-target QSAR model for the efficient search and design of new anti-sarcoma agents against 12 sarcoma cell lines. The model was obtained with the use of a heterogeneous database of compounds and it was based on substructural descriptors. The percentages of correct classification of active and inactive compounds were higher than 85% in both cases. Also, the present approach provided the rapid extraction of substructural alerts responsible of anti-sarcoma profile by calculating the quantitative contributions of fragments to anti-sarcoma activity. To our knowledge, this is the first attempt to calculate the probabilities of anti-sarcoma activity of compounds against several sarcoma cell lines simultaneously, using a unified fragment-based QSAR model.
Requimte/Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Porto, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal. alejspivanovich@gmail.com
Alejandro
A
Speck-Planche
Valeria V
VV
Kleandrova
Feng
F
Luan
M Natália D S
MN
Cordeiro
D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000494:pharmacology*; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D016002:Discriminant Analysis; D015195:Drug Design; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D021281:Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000188:drug therapy*
D000970:Antineoplastic Agents