Abstract
We have recently reported that the combination of molecular electrostatic
potential (MEP) surface properties (autocorrelation vectors) with
the conventional partial least squares (PLS) analysis can be used
to produce a robust ligand-based 3D structure-activity relationship
(autoMEP/PLS) for the prediction of the human A3 receptor antagonist
activities. Here, we present the application of the 3D-QSAR (autoMEP/PLS)
approach as an efficient and alternative pharmacodynamic filtering
method for small-sized virtual library. For this purpose, a small-sized
combinatorial library (841 compounds) was derived from the scaffold
of the known human A3 antagonist pyrazolo-triazolo-pyrimidines. The
most interesting analogues were further prioritized for synthesis
and pharmacological characterization. Remarkably, we have found that
all the newly synthetized compounds are correctly predicted as potent
human A3 antagonists. In particular, two of them are correctly predicted
as sub-nanomolar inhibitors of the human A3 receptor.
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