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A structure-activity relationship (SAR) study of neolignan compounds with anti-schistosomiasis activity
(2002-06) ALVES, Claudio Nahum; MACEDO, Luiz Guilherme Machado de; HONORIO, Kathia Maria; CAMARGO, Ademir João; SANTOS, Lourivaldo da Silva; JARDIM, Iselino Nogueira; BARATA, Lauro Euclides Soares; SILVA, Alberico Borges Ferreira da
A set of eighteen neolignan derivative compounds with anti-schistosomiasis activity was studied by using the quantum mechanical semi-empirical method PM3 and other theoretical methods in order to calculate selected molecular properties (variables or descriptors) to be correlated to their biological activities. Exploratory data analysis (principal component analysis, PCA, and hierarchical cluster analysis, HCA), discriminant analysis (DA) and the Kth nearest neighbor (KNN) method were employed for obtaining possible relationships between the calculated descriptors and the biological activities studied and predicting the anti-schistosomiasis activity of new compounds from a test set. The molecular descriptors responsible for the separation between active and inactive compounds were: hydration energy (HE), molecular refractivity (MR) and charge on the C19 carbon atom (Q19). These descriptors give information on the kind of interaction that can occur between the compounds and their respective biological receptor. The prediction study was done with a new set of ten derivative compounds by using the PCA, HCA, DA and KNN methods and only five of them were predicted as active against schistosomiasis.
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A study of neolignan compounds with biological activity against Paracoccidioides brasiliensis by using quantum chemical and chemometric methods
(2003-10) CAMARGO, Ademir João; HONORIO, Kathia Maria; MERCADANTE, Ricardo; MOLFETTA, Fábio Alberto de; ALVES, Claudio Nahum; SILVA, Alberico Borges Ferreira da
Chemometric (statistical) methods are employed to classify a set of neolignan compounds with activity against Paracoccidioides brasiliensis. The AM1 (Austin Model 1) method was used to calculate a set of molecular descriptors (properties) of the neolignan compounds under study. The descriptors were further analyzed using Principal Components Analysis (PCA), Hierarchical Cluster Analysis (HCA) and K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) chemometric methods. The PCA and HCA methods were quite efficient to classify the compounds into two groups (active and inactive) and three descriptors were found to be important in the classification: the highest occupied molecular orbital energy (EHOMO), the bond order between C1'-R7 atoms (L14) and the bond order between C5' -R6 atoms (L22). The three variables responsible for the separation between active and inactive compounds are all electronic descriptors, therefore we can conclude that electronic effects should have an important role when one is trying to understand the activity of neolignan compounds against Paracoccidioides brasiliensis.