A QSAR study on some series of anticancer tyrosine kinase inhibitors.

A quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) study has been made on two different series of anticancer tyrosine kinase inhibitors, namely a series of 4-alkynyl and 4-alkenyl-quinazolines and a series of N-4,6-pyrimidine-N-alkyl- N'-phenyl ureas. For the first series, QSAR results indicate that the activity is controlled by the hydrophobicity of the molecules and molecular connectivity index of the substituent, whereas for the second series of compounds the activity is found to be controlled by the molecular connectivity index of the substituent and some indicator variables.

A QSAR study on a series of pyrrole derivatives acting as lymphocyte-specific kinase (Lck) inhibitors.

A quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) study has been made on a novel series of pyrrole derivatives acting as lymphocyte-specific kinase (Lck) inhibitors. The Lck inhibition activity of compounds is found to be significantly correlated with their molar volume (MV) and surface tension (ST) and the hydrophobic constant of one of their substituents. Both the molar properties MV and ST of the compounds are found to have the negative effect but the hydrophobic property of R(2)-substituen is found to have the positive effect. This leads to suggest that the bulky molecules and the those with high surface tension will not be advantageous to the Lck inhibition, rather their R(2)-substituent with hydrophobic property will be conducive to the activity.

A QSAR study on a series of simplified digitalis-like compounds acting on Na+,K(+)-ATPase.

Among the cardiotonics (agents against congestive heart failure), the most important group is of the digitalis cardiac glycosides, but since these compounds suffer from a low therapeutic index, attention has been paid to investigating safer cardiotonic agents through the inhibition of Na+,K(+)-ATPase, the mechanism by which the digitalis cardiac glycosides elicit their action. Recently, a series of perhydroindenes were studied for their Na+,K(+)-ATPase inhibition activity. We report here a QSAR study on them to investigate the physicochemical and structural properties of the molecules that govern their activity in order to rationalize the structural modification to have more potent drugs. A multiple regression analysis reveals a significant correlation between the Na+,K(+)-ATPase inhibition activity of the compounds and Kier's first order valence molecular connectivity index of their R5-substituents and some indicator parameters, suggesting that the R5-substituents of the compounds containing atoms with low valence and high saturation and the R1-substituents having =N-O- moiety will be conducive to the activity.

A QSAR study on a series of N-methyl pyrimidones acting as HIV integrase inhibitors.

A quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) study has been performed on integrase (IN) inhibition activity of a large series of N-methyl pyrimidones [Gardelli et al. (2007) J Med Chem 50, 4953-4975)] having varying heterocyclic ring substitution at 2-position of pyrimidone ring. The activity is found to be significantly correlated with surface tension and molar volume of the molecules. The whole series of compounds is divided into two subsets: a training set and a test set. A significant correlation is obtained for the training set, which is then used to predict the activity of compounds in the test set. The predicted activities of compounds in the test set are found to be very close to their observed activities. The predicting ability of the correlation obtained is judged by leave-one-out jackknife procedure. The correlation shows the effective role of the surface tension and molar volume of the molecules. From the correlation obtained, the integrase inhibition activities are predicted for some new prospective compounds.