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ANTONINO LAURIA

Receptor-guided 3D-QSAR approach for the discovery of c-kit tyrosine kinase inhibitors

  • Authors: ALMERICO, AM; TUTONE, M; LAURIA, A
  • Publication year: 2012
  • Type: Articolo in rivista (Articolo in rivista)
  • Key words: C-kit . 3D-QSAR . Kohonen maps . Induced-fit docking
  • OA Link: http://hdl.handle.net/10447/64271

Abstract

Studies of the the three-dimensional quantitative structure–activity relationships for ninety-five c-kit tyrosine kinase inhibitors were performed. Based on a cocrystallized compound (1 T46), known inhibitors were aligned with c-kit by induced-fit docking, and multiple training/test set splitting was performed to validate the selected pharmacophore model. The best pharmacophore model consisted of five features: one hydrogen-bond donor and four aromatic rings. Reliable statistics were obtained (R2=0.95, Rpred 2=0.75), and the model was validated by using it to select c-kit inhibitors from a database; 82.1% of the hits it retrieved were active. Accordingly, our model can be reliably used to identify new c-kit inhibitors, and can provide useful information when designing new inhibitors.