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Theoretical Prediction of Antiproliferative Activity against Murine Leukemia Tumor Cell Line (L1210). 3D-Morse Descriptors and its Application in Computational Chemistry
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1  REQUIMTE, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, 4169-007 Porto Portugal
2  Molecular Simulation and Drug Design Group, Chemical Bioactive Center, Central University of Las Villas, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, C.P. 54830, Cuba
3  CIQ, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, 4169-007 Porto Portugal
4  Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultade de Farmacia, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, E-15706 Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Abstract: Cancer is among the top ten causes of death in the world but in spite of the efforts of the pharmaceutical companies and many governmental organizations, new and more effective drugs are urgently needed. Computer assisted studies have been widely used to predict anticancer activity taking into account different molecular descriptors, statistical techniques, cell lines and data sets of congeneric and non-congeneric compounds. This paper describes a QSAR study and the successful application of 3D-MoRSE descriptors for developing Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) to predict the anticancer potential of a diverse set of indolocarbazoles derivatives. Despite the structural complexity of this sort of compounds the used descriptors are able to identify the most remarkable features like the incidence of polarizability of the substituents and the interatomic distance in the 7-azaindole moiety in the antiproliferative activity. A comparison with other approaches such as the Getaway, Randic molecular profile, Geometrical, RDF descriptors, was carried out showing the model with 3D-MoRSE descriptors resulted in the best accuracy and predictive capability. An LDA based desirability analysis was conducted to select the levels of the predictor variables which should generate more desirable drugs, i.e. with higher posterior probability to be classified cytotoxic.
Keywords: QSAR; Anticancer activity; Indolocarbazoles derivatives; 3D-MoRSE

 
 
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