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Docking and quantitative structure–activity relationship studies for sulfonyl hydrazides as inhibitors of cytosolic human branched-chain amino acid aminotransferase

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We have performed the docking of sulfonyl hydrazides complexed with cytosolic branched-chain amino acid aminotransferase (BCATc) to study the orientations and preferred active conformations of these inhibitors. The study was conducted on a selected set of 20 compounds with variation in structure and activity. In addition, the predicted inhibitor concentration (IC50) of the sulfonyl hydrazides as BCAT inhibitors were obtained by a quantitative structure–activity relationship (QSAR) method using three-dimensional (3D) vectors. We found that three-dimensional molecule representation of structures based on electron diffraction (3D-MoRSE) scheme contains the most relevant information related to the studied activity. The statistical parameters [cross-validate correlation coefficient (Q 2 = 0.796) and fitted correlation coefficient (R 2 = 0.899)] validated the quality of the 3D-MoRSE predictive model for 16 compounds. Additionally, this model adequately predicted four compounds that were not included in the training set.

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  1. Centro de Bioinformática y Simulación Molecular, Facultad de Ingeniería en Bioinformática, Universidad de Talca, 2 Norte 685, Casilla 721, Talca, Chile

    Julio Caballero & Ariela Vergara-Jaque

  2. Molecular Modeling Group, Center for Biotechnological Studies, University of Matanzas, Matanzas, Cuba

    Michael Fernández

  3. Department of Bioscience and Bioinformatics, Kyushu Institute of Technology (KIT), 680-4 Kawazu, Iizuka, Fukuoka, 820-8502, Japan

    Michael Fernández

  4. Center for Natural Products Study, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Havana, Havana, 10400, Cuba

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Caballero, J., Vergara-Jaque, A., Fernández, M. et al. Docking and quantitative structure–activity relationship studies for sulfonyl hydrazides as inhibitors of cytosolic human branched-chain amino acid aminotransferase. Mol Divers 13, 493–500 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11030-009-9140-1

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