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- Title
Ligand Efficiency Outperforms pIC<sub>50</sub> on Both 2D MLR and 3D CoMFA Models: A Case Study on AR Antagonists.
- Authors
Li, Jiazhong; Bai, Fang; Liu, Huanxiang; Gramatica, Paola
- Abstract
The concept of ligand efficiency is defined as biological activity in each molecular size and is widely accepted throughout the drug design community. Among different LE indices, surface efficiency index (SEI) was reported to be the best one in support vector machine modeling, much better than the generally and traditionally used end-point pIC50. In this study, 2D multiple linear regression and 3D comparative molecular field analysis methods are employed to investigate the structure-activity relationships of a series of androgen receptor antagonists, using pIC50 and SEI as dependent variables to verify the influence of using different kinds of end-points. The obtained results suggest that SEI outperforms pIC50 on both MLR and CoMFA models with higher stability and predictive ability. After analyzing the characteristics of the two dependent variables SEI and pIC50, we deduce that the superiority of SEI maybe lie in that SEI could reflect the relationship between molecular structures and corresponding bioactivities, in nature, better than pIC50. This study indicates that SEI could be a more rational parameter to be optimized in the drug discovery process than pIC50.
- Subjects
LIGANDS (Biochemistry); DRUG design; COMPARATIVE molecular field analysis; ANDROGEN receptors; REGRESSION analysis
- Publication
Chemical Biology & Drug Design, 2015, Vol 86, Issue 6, p1501
- ISSN
1747-0277
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.1111/cbdd.12619