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Mori A, Ito S, Sekine T. A revision of the multiple-path particle dosimetry model focusing on tobacco product aerosol dynamics. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING 2024; 40:e3796. [PMID: 38185887 DOI: 10.1002/cnm.3796] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2023] [Revised: 10/15/2023] [Accepted: 11/26/2023] [Indexed: 01/09/2024]
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To assess the health impact of inhaled aerosols, it is necessary to understand aerosol dynamics and the associated dosimetry in the human respiratory tract. Although several studies have measured or simulated the dosimetry of aerosol constituents, the respiratory tract focus areas have been limited. In particular, the aerosols generated from tobacco products are complex composites and simulating their dynamics in the respiratory tract is challenging. To assess the dosimetry of the aerosol constituents of tobacco products, we developed a revised version of the Multiple-Path Particle Dosimetry (MPPD) model, which employs (1) new geometry based on CT-scanned human respiratory tract data, (2) convective mixing in the oral cavity and deep lung, and (3) constituent partitioning between the tissue and air, and clearance. The sensitivity analysis was conducted using aerosols composed of four major constituents of electronic cigarette (EC) aerosols to investigate the parameters that have a significant impact on the results. In addition, the revised model was run with 4 and 10 constituents in ECs and conventional cigarettes (CCs), respectively. Sensitivity analysis revealed that the new modeling and the physicochemical properties of constituents had a considerable impact on the simulated aerosol concentration and dosimetry. The simulations could be carried out within 3 min even when 10 constituents of CC aerosols were analyzed simultaneously. The revised model based on MPPD is an efficient and easy-to-use tool for understanding the aerosol dynamics of CC and EC constituents and their effect on the human body.
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- Akina Mori
- Scientific Product Assessment Center, R&D Group, Japan Tobacco Inc., Yokohama, Japan
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- Scientific Product Assessment Center, R&D Group, Japan Tobacco Inc., Yokohama, Japan
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- Scientific Product Assessment Center, R&D Group, Japan Tobacco Inc., Yokohama, Japan
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Aakash A, Kulsoom R, Khan S, Siddiqui MS, Nabi D. Novel Models for Accurate Estimation of Air-Blood Partitioning: Applications to Individual Compounds and Complex Mixtures of Neutral Organic Compounds. J Chem Inf Model 2023; 63:7056-7066. [PMID: 37956246 PMCID: PMC10685450 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.3c01288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2023] [Revised: 10/23/2023] [Accepted: 10/25/2023] [Indexed: 11/15/2023]
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The air-blood partition coefficient (Kab) is extensively employed in human health risk assessment for chemical exposure. However, current Kab estimation approaches either require an extensive number of parameters or lack precision. In this study, we present two novel and parsimonious models to accurately estimate Kab values for individual neutral organic compounds, as well as their complex mixtures. The first model, termed the GC×GC model, was developed based on the retention times of nonpolar chemical analytes on comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC×GC). This model is unique in its ability to estimate the Kab values for complex mixtures of nonpolar organic chemicals. The GC×GC model successfully accounted for the Kab variance (R2 = 0.97) and demonstrated strong prediction power (RMSE = 0.31 log unit) for an independent set of nonpolar chemical analytes. Overall, the GC×GC model can be used to estimate Kab values for complex mixtures of neutral organic compounds. The second model, termed the partition model (PM), is based on two types of partition coefficients: octanol to water (Kow) and air to water (Kaw). The PM was able to effectively account for the variability in Kab data (n = 344), yielding an R2 value of 0.93 and root-mean-square error (RMSE) of 0.34 log unit. The predictive power and explanatory performance of the PM were found to be comparable to those of the parameter-intensive Abraham solvation models (ASMs). Additionally, the PM can be integrated into the software EPI Suite, which is widely used in chemical risk assessment for initial screening. The PM provides quick and reliable estimation of Kab compared to ASMs, while the GC×GC model is uniquely suited for estimating Kab values for complex mixtures of neutral organic compounds. In summary, our study introduces two novel and parsimonious models for the accurate estimation of Kab values for both individual compounds and complex mixtures.
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- Ahmad Aakash
- Institute
of Environmental Science and Engineering (IESE), School of Civil and
Environmental Engineering (SCEE), National
University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), H-12, 48000 Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Institute
of Environmental Science and Engineering (IESE), School of Civil and
Environmental Engineering (SCEE), National
University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), H-12, 48000 Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Institute
of Environmental Science and Engineering (IESE), School of Civil and
Environmental Engineering (SCEE), National
University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), H-12, 48000 Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Institute
of Environmental Science and Engineering (IESE), School of Civil and
Environmental Engineering (SCEE), National
University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), H-12, 48000 Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Institute
of Environmental Science and Engineering (IESE), School of Civil and
Environmental Engineering (SCEE), National
University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), H-12, 48000 Islamabad, Pakistan
- GEOMAR
Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research, Wischhofstrasse 1-3, 24148 Kiel, Germany
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Wang Y, Zhang P. Prediction of histone deacetylase inhibition by triazole compounds based on artificial intelligence. Front Pharmacol 2023; 14:1260349. [PMID: 38035010 PMCID: PMC10684768 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2023.1260349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2023] [Accepted: 10/30/2023] [Indexed: 12/02/2023] Open
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A quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) study was conducted to predict the anti-colon cancer and HDAC inhibition of triazole-containing compounds. Four descriptors were selected from 579 descriptors which have the most obvious effect on the inhibition of histone deacetylase (HDAC). Four QSAR models were constructed using heuristic algorithm (HM), random forest (RF), radial basis kernel function support vector machine (RBF-SVM) and support vector machine optimized by particle swarm optimization (PSO-SVM). Furthermore, the robustness of four QSAR models were verified by K-fold cross-validation method, which was described by Q 2. In addition, the R 2 of the four models are greater than 0.8, which indicates that the four descriptors selected are reasonable. Among the four models, model based on PSO-SVM method has the best prediction ability and robustness with R 2 of 0.954, root mean squared error (RMSE) of 0.019 and Q 2 of 0.916 for the training set and R 2 of 0.965, RMSE of 0.017 and Q 2 of 0.907 for the test set. In this study, four key descriptors were discovered, which will help to screen effective new anti-colon cancer drugs in the future.
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- College of Computer Science and Technology, Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong Province, China
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Mohammad FK, Palukuri MV, Shivakumar S, Rengaswamy R, Sahoo S. A Computational Framework for Studying Gut-Brain Axis in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Front Physiol 2022; 13:760753. [PMID: 35330929 PMCID: PMC8940246 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2022.760753] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2021] [Accepted: 01/17/2022] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Introduction The integrity of the intestinal epithelium is crucial for human health and is harmed in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). An aberrant gut microbial composition resulting in gut-derived metabolic toxins was found to damage the intestinal epithelium, jeopardizing tissue integrity. These toxins further reach the brain via the gut-brain axis, disrupting the normal function of the brain. A mechanistic understanding of metabolic disturbances in the brain and gut is essential to design effective therapeutics and early intervention to block disease progression. Herein, we present a novel computational framework integrating constraint based tissue specific metabolic (CBM) model and whole-body physiological pharmacokinetics (PBPK) modeling for ASD. Furthermore, the role of gut microbiota, diet, and oxidative stress is analyzed in ASD. Methods A representative gut model capturing host-bacteria and bacteria-bacteria interaction was developed using CBM techniques and patient data. Simultaneously, a PBPK model of toxin metabolism was assembled, incorporating multi-scale metabolic information. Furthermore, dynamic flux balance analysis was performed to integrate CBM and PBPK. The effectiveness of a probiotic and dietary intervention to improve autism symptoms was tested on the integrated model. Results The model accurately highlighted critical metabolic pathways of the gut and brain that are associated with ASD. These include central carbon, nucleotide, and vitamin metabolism in the host gut, and mitochondrial energy and amino acid metabolisms in the brain. The proposed dietary intervention revealed that a high-fiber diet is more effective than a western diet in reducing toxins produced inside the gut. The addition of probiotic bacteria Lactobacillus acidophilus, Bifidobacterium longum longum, Akkermansia muciniphila, and Prevotella ruminicola to the diet restores gut microbiota balance, thereby lowering oxidative stress in the gut and brain. Conclusion The proposed computational framework is novel in its applicability, as demonstrated by the determination of the whole-body distribution of ROS toxins and metabolic association in ASD. In addition, it emphasized the potential for developing novel therapeutic strategies to alleviate autism symptoms. Notably, the presented integrated model validates the importance of combining PBPK modeling with COBRA -specific tissue details for understanding disease pathogenesis.
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- Faiz Khan Mohammad
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India.,Initiative for Biological Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India.,Initiative for Biological Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India.,Initiative for Biological Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India.,Initiative for Biological Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
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He H, Pan Y, Meng J, Li Y, Zhong J, Duan W, Jiang J. Predicting Thermal Decomposition Temperature of Binary Imidazolium Ionic Liquid Mixtures from Molecular Structures. ACS OMEGA 2021; 6:13116-13123. [PMID: 34056461 PMCID: PMC8158806 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c00846] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2021] [Accepted: 04/27/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Ionic liquids (ILs) have been regarded as "designer solvents" because of their satisfactory physicochemical properties. The 5% onset decomposition temperature (T d,5%onset) is one of the most conservative but reliable indicators for characterizing the possible fire hazard of engineered ILs. This study is devoted to develop a quantitative structure-property relationship model for predicting the T d,5%onset of binary imidazolium IL mixtures. Both in silico design and data analysis descriptors and norm index were employed to encode the structural characteristics of binary IL mixtures. The subset of optimal descriptors was screened by combining the genetic algorithm with the multiple linear regression method. The resulting optimal prediction model was a four-variable multiple linear equation, with the average absolute error (AAE) for the external test set being 12.673 K. The results of rigorous model validations also demonstrated satisfactory model robustness and predictivity. The present study would provide a new reliable approach for predicting the thermal stability of binary IL mixtures.
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- Hongpeng He
- Jiangsu
Key Laboratory of Hazardous Chemicals Safety and Control, College
of Safety Science and Engineering, Nanjing
Tech University, Nanjing 211816, China
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- Jiangsu
Key Laboratory of Hazardous Chemicals Safety and Control, College
of Safety Science and Engineering, Nanjing
Tech University, Nanjing 211816, China
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- Jiangsu
Key Laboratory of Hazardous Chemicals Safety and Control, College
of Safety Science and Engineering, Nanjing
Tech University, Nanjing 211816, China
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- Jiangsu
Key Laboratory of Hazardous Chemicals Safety and Control, College
of Safety Science and Engineering, Nanjing
Tech University, Nanjing 211816, China
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- Jiangsu
Key Laboratory of Hazardous Chemicals Safety and Control, College
of Safety Science and Engineering, Nanjing
Tech University, Nanjing 211816, China
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- Jiangsu
Key Laboratory of Hazardous Chemicals Safety and Control, College
of Safety Science and Engineering, Nanjing
Tech University, Nanjing 211816, China
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- Jiangsu
Key Laboratory of Hazardous Chemicals Safety and Control, College
of Safety Science and Engineering, Nanjing
Tech University, Nanjing 211816, China
- School
of Environment & Safety Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, China
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Hamzeh-Mivehroud M, Sokouti B, Dastmalchi S. An Introduction to the Basic Concepts in QSAR-Aided Drug Design. Oncology 2017. [DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0549-5.ch002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The need for the development of new drugs to combat existing and newly identified conditions is unavoidable. One of the important tools used in the advanced drug development pipeline is computer-aided drug design. Traditionally, to find a drug many ligands were synthesized and evaluated for their effectiveness using suitable bioassays and if all other drug-likeness features were met, the candidate(s) would possibly reach the market. Although this approach is still in use in advanced format, computational methods are an indispensable component of modern drug development projects. One of the methods used from very early days of rationalizing the drug design approaches is Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR). This chapter overviews QSAR modeling steps by introducing molecular descriptors, mathematical model development for relating biological activities to molecular structures, and model validation. At the end, several successful cases where QSAR studies were used extensively are presented.
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- Biotechnology Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Iran & School of Pharmacy, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Iran
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Martínez MJ, Ponzoni I, Díaz MF, Vazquez GE, Soto AJ. Visual analytics in cheminformatics: user-supervised descriptor selection for QSAR methods. J Cheminform 2015; 7:39. [PMID: 26300983 PMCID: PMC4540751 DOI: 10.1186/s13321-015-0092-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2015] [Accepted: 07/30/2015] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Background The design of QSAR/QSPR models is a challenging problem, where the selection of the most relevant descriptors constitutes a key step of the process. Several feature selection methods that address this step are concentrated on statistical associations among descriptors and target properties, whereas the chemical knowledge is left out of the analysis. For this reason, the interpretability and generality of the QSAR/QSPR models obtained by these feature selection methods are drastically affected. Therefore, an approach for integrating domain expert’s knowledge in the selection process is needed for increase the confidence in the final set of descriptors. Results In this paper a software tool, which we named Visual and Interactive DEscriptor ANalysis (VIDEAN), that combines statistical methods with interactive visualizations for choosing a set of descriptors for predicting a target property is proposed. Domain expertise can be added to the feature selection process by means of an interactive visual exploration of data, and aided by statistical tools and metrics based on information theory. Coordinated visual representations are presented for capturing different relationships and interactions among descriptors, target properties and candidate subsets of descriptors. The competencies of the proposed software were assessed through different scenarios. These scenarios reveal how an expert can use this tool to choose one subset of descriptors from a group of candidate subsets or how to modify existing descriptor subsets and even incorporate new descriptors according to his or her own knowledge of the target property. Conclusions The reported experiences showed the suitability of our software for selecting sets of descriptors with low cardinality, high interpretability, low redundancy and high statistical performance in a visual exploratory way. Therefore, it is possible to conclude that the resulting tool allows the integration of a chemist’s expertise in the descriptor selection process with a low cognitive effort in contrast with the alternative of using an ad-hoc manual analysis of the selected descriptors. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13321-015-0092-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- María Jimena Martínez
- Departamento de Ciencias e Ingeniería de la Computación, Laboratorio de Investigación y Desarrollo en Computación Científica (LIDeCC), Instituto de Ciencias e Ingeniería de la Computación (ICIC), Universidad Nacional del Sur, Av. Alem 1253, 8000 Bahía Blanca, Argentina
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- Departamento de Ciencias e Ingeniería de la Computación, Laboratorio de Investigación y Desarrollo en Computación Científica (LIDeCC), Instituto de Ciencias e Ingeniería de la Computación (ICIC), Universidad Nacional del Sur, Av. Alem 1253, 8000 Bahía Blanca, Argentina
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- Planta Piloto de Ingeniería Química (PLAPIQUI)-UNS-CONICET, Co., La Carrindanga km.7, CC 717 Bahía Blanca, Argentina
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- Facultad de Ingeniería y Tecnologías, Universidad Católica del Uruguay, Av. 8 de Octubre 2801, CC 11300 Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, 6050 University Av., Halifax, Canada
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Hamzeh-Mivehroud M, Sokouti B, Dastmalchi S. An Introduction to the Basic Concepts in QSAR-Aided Drug Design. QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIPS IN DRUG DESIGN, PREDICTIVE TOXICOLOGY, AND RISK ASSESSMENT 2015. [DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8136-1.ch001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Abstract
The need for the development of new drugs to combat existing and newly identified conditions is unavoidable. One of the important tools used in the advanced drug development pipeline is computer-aided drug design. Traditionally, to find a drug many ligands were synthesized and evaluated for their effectiveness using suitable bioassays and if all other drug-likeness features were met, the candidate(s) would possibly reach the market. Although this approach is still in use in advanced format, computational methods are an indispensable component of modern drug development projects. One of the methods used from very early days of rationalizing the drug design approaches is Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR). This chapter overviews QSAR modeling steps by introducing molecular descriptors, mathematical model development for relating biological activities to molecular structures, and model validation. At the end, several successful cases where QSAR studies were used extensively are presented.
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- Maryam Hamzeh-Mivehroud
- Biotechnology Research Center & School of Pharmacy, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
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- Biotechnology Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
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- Biotechnology Research Center & School of Pharmacy, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
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Tissue-to-blood distribution coefficients in the rat: Utility for estimation of the volume of distribution in man. Eur J Pharm Sci 2013; 50:526-43. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejps.2013.08.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2013] [Revised: 07/03/2013] [Accepted: 08/13/2013] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Al-Fahemi JH. Structural descriptors for the correlation of human blood:air partition coefficient of volatile organic molecules by QSPRs. Struct Chem 2013. [DOI: 10.1007/s11224-013-0224-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Palomba D, Martínez MJ, Ponzoni I, Díaz MF, Vazquez GE, Soto AJ. QSPR models for predicting log P(liver) values for volatile organic compounds combining statistical methods and domain knowledge. Molecules 2012; 17:14937-53. [PMID: 23247367 PMCID: PMC6268846 DOI: 10.3390/molecules171214937] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2012] [Revised: 12/12/2012] [Accepted: 12/13/2012] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are contained in a variety of chemicals that can be found in household products and may have undesirable effects on health. Thereby, it is important to model blood-to-liver partition coefficients (log Pliver) for VOCs in a fast and inexpensive way. In this paper, we present two new quantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR) models for the prediction of log Pliver, where we also propose a hybrid approach for the selection of the descriptors. This hybrid methodology combines a machine learning method with a manual selection based on expert knowledge. This allows obtaining a set of descriptors that is interpretable in physicochemical terms. Our regression models were trained using decision trees and neural networks and validated using an external test set. Results show high prediction accuracy compared to previous log Pliver models, and the descriptor selection approach provides a means to get a small set of descriptors that is in agreement with theoretical understanding of the target property.
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- Damián Palomba
- Planta Piloto de Ingeniería Química (PLAPIQUI) CONICET-UNS, La Carrindanga km.7, Bahía Blanca, 8000, Argentina; E-Mails: (D.P.); (I.P.); (M.F.D.)
- Laboratorio de Investigación y Desarrollo en Computación Científica (LIDeCC), DCIC, UNS, Av. Alem 1250, Bahía Blanca, 8000, Argentina; E-Mails: (M.J.M.); (G.E.V.)
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- Laboratorio de Investigación y Desarrollo en Computación Científica (LIDeCC), DCIC, UNS, Av. Alem 1250, Bahía Blanca, 8000, Argentina; E-Mails: (M.J.M.); (G.E.V.)
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- Planta Piloto de Ingeniería Química (PLAPIQUI) CONICET-UNS, La Carrindanga km.7, Bahía Blanca, 8000, Argentina; E-Mails: (D.P.); (I.P.); (M.F.D.)
- Laboratorio de Investigación y Desarrollo en Computación Científica (LIDeCC), DCIC, UNS, Av. Alem 1250, Bahía Blanca, 8000, Argentina; E-Mails: (M.J.M.); (G.E.V.)
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- Planta Piloto de Ingeniería Química (PLAPIQUI) CONICET-UNS, La Carrindanga km.7, Bahía Blanca, 8000, Argentina; E-Mails: (D.P.); (I.P.); (M.F.D.)
- Laboratorio de Investigación y Desarrollo en Computación Científica (LIDeCC), DCIC, UNS, Av. Alem 1250, Bahía Blanca, 8000, Argentina; E-Mails: (M.J.M.); (G.E.V.)
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- Laboratorio de Investigación y Desarrollo en Computación Científica (LIDeCC), DCIC, UNS, Av. Alem 1250, Bahía Blanca, 8000, Argentina; E-Mails: (M.J.M.); (G.E.V.)
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- Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, 6050 University Av., PO BOX 15000, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada
- Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: ; Tel.: +1-902-494-1040; Fax: +1-902-492-1517
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Quantitative structure-activity relationships for organophosphates binding to acetylcholinesterase. Arch Toxicol 2012; 87:281-9. [PMID: 22990135 DOI: 10.1007/s00204-012-0934-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2012] [Accepted: 08/28/2012] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Organophosphates are a group of pesticides and chemical warfare nerve agents that inhibit acetylcholinesterase, the enzyme responsible for hydrolysis of the excitatory neurotransmitter acetylcholine. Numerous structural variants exist for this chemical class, and data regarding their toxicity can be difficult to obtain in a timely fashion. At the same time, their use as pesticides and military weapons is widespread, which presents a major concern and challenge in evaluating human toxicity. To address this concern, a quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) was developed to predict pentavalent organophosphate oxon human acetylcholinesterase bimolecular rate constants. A database of 278 three-dimensional structures and their bimolecular rates was developed from 15 peer-reviewed publications. A database of simplified molecular input line entry notations and their respective acetylcholinesterase bimolecular rate constants are listed in Supplementary Material, Table I. The database was quite diverse, spanning 7 log units of activity. In order to describe their structure, 675 molecular descriptors were calculated using AMPAC 8.0 and CODESSA 2.7.10. Orthogonal projection to latent structures regression, bootstrap leave-random-many-out cross-validation and y-randomization were used to develop an externally validated consensus QSAR model. The domain of applicability was assessed by the William's plot. Six external compounds were outside the warning leverage indicating potential model extrapolation. A number of compounds had residuals >2 or <-2, indicating potential outliers or activity cliffs. The results show that the HOMO-LUMO energy gap contributed most significantly to the binding affinity. A mean training R (2) of 0.80, a mean test set R (2) of 0.76 and a consensus external test set R (2) of 0.66 were achieved using the QSAR. The training and external test set RMSE values were found to be 0.76 and 0.88. The results suggest that this QSAR model can be used in physiologically based pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic models of organophosphate toxicity to determine the rate of acetylcholinesterase inhibition.
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Solov’ev VP, Kireeva N, Tsivadze AY, Varnek A. QSPR ensemble modelling of alkaline-earth metal complexation. J INCL PHENOM MACRO 2012. [DOI: 10.1007/s10847-012-0185-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Jia C, Yu X, Masiak W. Blood/air distribution of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in a nationally representative sample. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2012; 419:225-232. [PMID: 22285084 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.12.055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2011] [Revised: 12/22/2011] [Accepted: 12/22/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in human blood are an effective biomarker of environmental exposure and are closely linked to health outcomes. Unlike VOC concentrations in air, which are routinely collected, blood VOC data are not as readily available. This study aims to develop the quantitative relationship between air and blood VOCs by deriving population-based blood/air distribution coefficients (popKs) of ten common VOCs in the general U.S. population. Air and human blood samples were collected from 364 adults aged 20-59 years in 1999-2000 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). Determinants of popKs were identified using weighted multivariate regression models. In the non-smoking population, median popKs ranged from 3.1 to 77.3, comparable to values obtained in the laboratory. PopKs decreased with increasing airborne VOC concentrations. Smoking elevated popKs by 1.5-3.5 times for aromatic compounds, but did not affect the popKs for methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) or chlorinated compounds. Drinking water concentration was a modifier of MTBE's popK. Age, gender, body composition, nor ethnicity affected popKs. PopKs were predictable using linear models with air concentration as the independent variable for both adults and children. This is the first study to estimate blood/air distribution coefficients using simultaneous environmental and biological monitoring on a national population sample. This study was also the first to determine the blood/air distribution coefficient of p-dichlorobenzene, a compound frequently found in indoor environments. These results have applications in exposure assessment, pharmacokinetic analysis, physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modeling, and uncertainty analysis.
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- Chunrong Jia
- School of Public Health, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152, USA.
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Buist HE, Wit-Bos LD, Bouwman T, Vaes WH. Predicting blood:air partition coefficients using basic physicochemical properties. Regul Toxicol Pharmacol 2012; 62:23-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.yrtph.2011.11.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2011] [Revised: 10/25/2011] [Accepted: 11/30/2011] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Ruark CD, Hack CE, Robinson PJ, Gearhart JM. Quantitative structure-activity relationships for organophosphates binding to trypsin and chymotrypsin. JOURNAL OF TOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH. PART A 2011; 74:1-23. [PMID: 21120745 DOI: 10.1080/15287394.2010.501716] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Organophosphate (OP) nerve agents such as sarin, soman, tabun, and O-ethyl S-[2-(diisopropylamino) ethyl] methylphosphonothioate (VX) do not react solely with acetylcholinesterase (AChE). Evidence suggests that cholinergic-independent pathways over a wide range are also targeted, including serine proteases. These proteases comprise nearly one-third of all known proteases and play major roles in synaptic plasticity, learning, memory, neuroprotection, wound healing, cell signaling, inflammation, blood coagulation, and protein processing. Inhibition of these proteases by OP was found to exert a wide range of noncholinergic effects depending on the type of OP, the dose, and the duration of exposure. Consequently, in order to understand these differences, in silico biologically based dose-response and quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) methodologies need to be integrated. Here, QSAR were used to predict OP bimolecular rate constants for trypsin and α-chymotrypsin. A heuristic regression of over 500 topological/constitutional, geometric, thermodynamic, electrostatic, and quantum mechanical descriptors, using the software Ampac 8.0 and Codessa 2.51 (SemiChem, Inc., Shawnee, KS), was developed to obtain statistically verified equations for the models. General models, using all data subsets, resulted in R(2) values of .94 and .92 and leave-one-out Q(2) values of 0.9 and 0.87 for trypsin and α-chymotrypsin. To validate the general model, training sets were split into independent subsets for test set evaluation. A y-randomization procedure, used to estimate chance correlation, was performed 10,000 times, resulting in mean R(2) values of .24 and .3 for trypsin and α-chymotrypsin. The results show that these models are highly predictive and capable of delineating the complex mechanism of action between OP and serine proteases, and ultimately, by applying this approach to other OP enzyme reactions such as AChE, facilitate the development of biologically based dose-response models.
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- Christopher D Ruark
- Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Applied Biotechnology Branch, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-5707, USA.
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This chapter reviews the application of fragment descriptors at different stages of virtual screening: filtering, similarity search, and direct activity assessment using QSAR/QSPR models. Several case studies are considered. It is demonstrated that the power of fragment descriptors stems from their universality, very high computational efficiency, simplicity of interpretation, and versatility.
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- Alexandre Varnek
- Laboratory of Chemoinformatics, UMR7177 CNRS, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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Dashtbozorgi Z, Golmohammadi H. Prediction of air to liver partition coefficient for volatile organic compounds using QSAR approaches. Eur J Med Chem 2010; 45:2182-90. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2010.01.056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2009] [Revised: 12/20/2009] [Accepted: 01/23/2010] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Dragos H, Gilles M, Alexandre V. Predicting the predictability: a unified approach to the applicability domain problem of QSAR models. J Chem Inf Model 2009; 49:1762-76. [PMID: 19530661 DOI: 10.1021/ci9000579] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The present work proposes a unified conceptual framework to describe and quantify the important issue of the Applicability Domains (AD) of Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships (QSARs). AD models are conceived as meta-models micromicro designed to associate an untrustworthiness score to any molecule M subject to property prediction by a QSAR model micro. Untrustworthiness scores or "AD metrics" Psimicro(M) are an expression of the relationship between M (represented by its descriptors in chemical space) and the space zones populated by the training molecules at the basis of model mu. Scores integrating some of the classical AD criteria (similarity-based, box-based) were considered in addition to newly invented terms such as the consensus prediction variance, the dissimilarity to outlier-free training sets, and the correlation breakdown count (the former two being most successful). A loose correlation is expected to exist between this untrustworthiness and the error |Pmicro(M)-Pexpt(M)| affecting the property Pmicro(M) predicted by micro. While high untrustworthiness does not preclude correct predictions, inaccurate predictions at low untrustworthiness must be imperatively avoided. This kind of relationship is characteristic for the Neighborhood Behavior (NB) problem: dissimilar molecule pairs may or may not display similar properties, but similar molecule pairs with different properties are explicitly "forbidden". Therefore, statistical tools developed to tackle this latter aspect were applied and lead to a unified AD metric benchmarking scheme. A first use of untrustworthiness scores resides in prioritization of predictions, without the need to specify a hard AD border. Moreover, if a significant set of external compounds is available, the formalism allows optimal AD borderlines to be fitted. Eventually, consensus AD definitions were built by means of a nonparametric mixing scheme of two AD metrics of comparable quality and shown to outperform their respective parents.
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- Horvath Dragos
- Laboratoire d'InfoChime, UMR 7177 Universite de Strasbourg-CNRS Institut de Chimie, 4, rue Blaise Pascal, 67000 Strasbourg, France.
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Lather V, Kairys V, Fernandes MX. Quantitative structure-activity relationship models with receptor-dependent descriptors for predicting peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor activities of thiazolidinedione and oxazolidinedione derivatives. Chem Biol Drug Des 2009; 73:428-41. [PMID: 19243388 DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-0285.2009.00788.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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A quantitative structure-activity relationship study has been carried out, in which the relationship between the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha and the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma agonistic activities of thiazolidinedione and oxazolidinedione derivatives and quantitative descriptors, V(site) calculated in a receptor-dependent manner is modeled. These descriptors quantify the volume occupied by the optimized ligands in regions that are either common or specific to the superimposed binding sites of the targets under consideration. The quantitative structure-activity relationship models were built by forward stepwise linear regression modeling for a training set of 27 compounds and validated for a test set of seven compounds, resulting in a squared correlation coefficient value of 0.90 for peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha and of 0.89 for peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma. The leave-one-out cross-validation and test set predictability squared correlation coefficient values for these models were 0.85 and 0.62 for peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha and 0.89 and 0.50 for peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma respectively. A dual peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor model has also been developed, and it indicates the structural features required for the design of ligands with dual peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor activity. These quantitative structure-activity relationship models show the importance of the descriptors here introduced in the prediction and interpretation of the compounds affinity and selectivity.
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- Viney Lather
- Centro de Química da Madeira, Departamento de Química, Universidade da Madeira, Campus da Penteada, 9000-390 Funchal, Portugal
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Abraham MH, Ibrahim A, Acree WE. Air to liver partition coefficients for volatile organic compounds and blood to liver partition coefficients for volatile organic compounds and drugs. Eur J Med Chem 2007; 42:743-51. [PMID: 17292513 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2006.12.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2006] [Revised: 12/05/2006] [Accepted: 12/07/2006] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Values of in vitro air to liver partition coefficients, K(liver), of VOCs have been collected from the literature. For 124 VOCs, application of the Abraham solvation equation to logK(liver) yielded a correlation equation with R(2)=0.927 and SD=0.26 log units. Combination of the logK(liver) values with logK(blood) values leads to in vitro blood to liver partition coefficients, as logP(liver) for VOCs; an Abraham solvation equation can correlate 125 such values with R(2)=0.583 and SD=0.23 log units. Values of in vivo logP(liver) for 85 drugs were collected, and were correlated with R(2)=0.522 and SD=0.42 log units. When the logP(liver) values for VOCs and drugs were combined, an Abraham solvation equation could correlate the 210 compounds with R(2)=0.544 and SD=0.32 log units. Division of the 210 compounds into a training set and a test set, each of 105 compounds, showed that the training equation could predict logP(liver) values with an average error of 0.05 and a standard deviation of 0.34 log units.
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- Michael H Abraham
- Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London, Middlesex WC1H OAJ, UK.
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Varnek A, Kireeva N, Tetko IV, Baskin II, Solov'ev VP. Exhaustive QSPR Studies of a Large Diverse Set of Ionic Liquids: How Accurately Can We Predict Melting Points? J Chem Inf Model 2007; 47:1111-22. [PMID: 17381081 DOI: 10.1021/ci600493x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Several popular machine learning methods--Associative Neural Networks (ANN), Support Vector Machines (SVM), k Nearest Neighbors (kNN), modified version of the partial least-squares analysis (PLSM), backpropagation neural network (BPNN), and Multiple Linear Regression Analysis (MLR)--implemented in ISIDA, NASAWIN, and VCCLAB software have been used to perform QSPR modeling of melting point of structurally diverse data set of 717 bromides of nitrogen-containing organic cations (FULL) including 126 pyridinium bromides (PYR), 384 imidazolium and benzoimidazolium bromides (IMZ), and 207 quaternary ammonium bromides (QUAT). Several types of descriptors were tested: E-state indices, counts of atoms determined for E-state atom types, molecular descriptors generated by the DRAGON program, and different types of substructural molecular fragments. Predictive ability of the models was analyzed using a 5-fold external cross-validation procedure in which every compound in the parent set was included in one of five test sets. Among the 16 types of developed structure--melting point models, nonlinear SVM, ASNN, and BPNN techniques demonstrate slightly better performance over other methods. For the full set, the accuracy of predictions does not significantly change as a function of the type of descriptors. For other sets, the performance of descriptors varies as a function of method and data set used. The root-mean squared error (RMSE) of prediction calculated on independent test sets is in the range of 37.5-46.4 degrees C (FULL), 26.2-34.8 degrees C (PYR), 38.8-45.9 degrees C (IMZ), and 34.2-49.3 degrees C (QUAT). The moderate accuracy of predictions can be related to the quality of the experimental data used for obtaining the models as well as to difficulties to take into account the structural features of ionic liquids in the solid state (polymorphic effects, eutectics, glass formation).
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- Alexandre Varnek
- Laboratoire d'Infochimie, UMR 7551 CNRS, Université Louis Pasteur, 4, rue B. Pascal, Strasbourg 67000, France.
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Varnek A, Fourches D, Sieffert N, Solov'ev VP, Hill C, Lecomte M. QSPR Modeling of the AmIII/EuIIISeparation Factor: How Far Can we Predict ? SOLVENT EXTRACTION AND ION EXCHANGE 2007. [DOI: 10.1080/07366290601067481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Abraham MH, Ibrahim A. Air to fat and blood to fat distribution of volatile organic compounds and drugs: Linear free energy analyses. Eur J Med Chem 2006; 41:1430-8. [PMID: 16996652 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2006.07.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2006] [Revised: 07/07/2006] [Accepted: 07/17/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Partition coefficients, K(fat), from air to human fat and to rat fat have been collected for 129 volatile organic compounds, VOCs. A linear free energy relationship, LFER, correlates the 129 values of log K(fat) with R(2)=0.958 and a standard deviation, S.D., of 0.194 log units. Use of training and test sets gives a predictive assessment of around 0.20 log units. Combination of log K(fat) with our previously listed values of log K(blood) enables blood/plasma to fat partition coefficients, as log P(fat), to be obtained for 126 VOCs. These values can be correlated with R(2)=0.847, S.D.=0.304 log units; the latter is also our assessment of the predictive capability of the LFER. Values of log P(fat) have been collected for 46 drugs, and can be fitted to an LFER with R(2)=0.811 and S.D.=0.355 log units. Unlike partition into brain or muscle, the data for VOCs and drugs cannot be combined. There are marked discrepancies for PCBs for which partition from blood/plasma into fat is very much less than that calculated from the data on VOCs or from the data on drugs.
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- Michael H Abraham
- Department of Chemistry, University College London, London, Middlesex, UK.
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Katritzky AR, Kuanar M, Dobchev DA, Vanhoecke BWA, Karelson M, Parmar VS, Stevens CV, Bracke ME. QSAR modeling of anti-invasive activity of organic compounds using structural descriptors. Bioorg Med Chem 2006; 14:6933-9. [PMID: 16908166 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2006.06.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2006] [Revised: 06/14/2006] [Accepted: 06/19/2006] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The anti-invasive activity of 139 compounds was correlated by an artificial neural network approach with descriptors calculated solely from the molecular structures using CODESSA Pro. The best multilinear regression method implemented in CODESSA Pro was used for a pre-selection of descriptors. The resulting nonlinear (artificial neural network) QSAR model predicted the exact class for 66 (71%) of the training set of 93 compounds and 32 (70%) of validation set of 46 compounds. The standard deviation ratios for the both training and validation sets are less than unity, indicating a satisfactory predictive capability for classification of the nature of the anti-invasive activity data. The proposed model can be used for the prediction of the anti-invasive activity of novel classes of compounds enabling a virtual screening of large databases of anticancer drugs.
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- Alan R Katritzky
- Center for Heterocyclic Compounds, Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
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Katritzky AR, Pacureanu LM, Slavov S, Dobchev DA, Karelson M. QSAR study of antiplatelet agents. Bioorg Med Chem 2006; 14:7490-500. [PMID: 16945540 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2006.07.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2006] [Revised: 07/05/2006] [Accepted: 07/07/2006] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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A QSAR methodology that involves multilinear (Hansch-type) and nonlinear (ANN backpropagation) approaches was developed to correlate the antiplatelet activity of 60 benzoxazinone derivatives against factor Xa. The statistical characteristics provided by multilinear model (R2 = 0.821) indicated satisfactory stability and predictive ability, while the ANN predictive ability is somewhat superior (R2 = 0.909). The multilinear model provided insight into the main factors that modulate the inhibitory activity of the investigated compounds.
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- Alan R Katritzky
- Center for Heterocyclic Compounds, Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
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