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Identifying new topoisomerase II poison scaffolds by combining publicly available toxicity data and 2D/3D-based virtual screening

Lovrics, Anna and Pape, Veronika and Szisz, Dániel and Kalaszi, Adrián and Heffeter, Petra and Magyar, Csaba and Szakács, Gergely (2019) Identifying new topoisomerase II poison scaffolds by combining publicly available toxicity data and 2D/3D-based virtual screening. JOURNAL OF CHEMINFORMATICS, 11 (1). ISSN 1758-2946

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Abstract

Molecular descriptor (2D) and three dimensional (3D) shape based similarity methods are widely used in ligand based virtual drug design. In the present study pairwise structure comparisons among a set of 4858 DTP compounds tested in the NCI60 tumor cell line anticancer drug screen were computed using chemical hashed fingerprints and 3D molecule shapes to calculate 2D and 3D similarities, respectively. Additionally, pairwise biological activity similarities were calculated by correlating the 60 element vectors of pGI50 values corresponding to the cytotoxicity of the compounds across the NCI60 panel. Subsequently, we compared the power of 2D and 3D structural similarity metrics to predict the toxicity pattern of compounds. We found that while the positive predictive value and sensitivity of 3D and molecular descriptor based approaches to predict biological activity are similar, a subset of molecule pairs yielded contradictory results. By simultaneously requiring similarity of biological activities and 3D shapes, and dissimilarity of molecular descriptor based comparisons, we identify pairs of scaffold hopping candidates displaying characteristic core structural changes such as heteroatom/heterocycle change and ring closure. Attempts to discover scaffold hopping candidates of mitoxantrone recovered known Topoisomerase II (Top2) inhibitors, and also predicted new, previously unknown chemotypes possessing in vitro Top2 inhibitory activity.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: INHIBITION; IDENTIFICATION; STRUCTURAL BASIS; SIMILARITY; mitoxantrone; Anticancer agents; shape; DRUG DISCOVERY; Small molecules; Virtual screening; Chemistry, Multidisciplinary; Computer Science, Information Systems; transcript; Topoisomerase II poisons; NCI60 cell panel;
Subjects: Q Science / természettudomány > QD Chemistry / kémia
R Medicine / orvostudomány > RS Pharmacy and materia medica / gyógyszerészet, gyógyászati eszközök
SWORD Depositor: MTMT SWORD
Depositing User: MTMT SWORD
Date Deposited: 05 Feb 2020 10:45
Last Modified: 05 Feb 2020 10:45
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/106143

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