Publication: Privileged substructures for anti-sickling activity: Via cheminformatic analysis
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2018-01-01
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20462069
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RSC Advances. Vol.8, No.11 (2018), 5920-5935
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Chuleeporn Phanus-Umporn, Watshara Shoombuatong, Veda Prachayasittikul, Nuttapat Anuwongcharoen, Chanin Nantasenamat Privileged substructures for anti-sickling activity: Via cheminformatic analysis. RSC Advances. Vol.8, No.11 (2018), 5920-5935. doi:10.1039/c7ra12079f Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/45443
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Privileged substructures for anti-sickling activity: Via cheminformatic analysis
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© 2018 The Royal Society of Chemistry. Sickle cell disease (SCD), an autosomal recessive genetic disorder, has been recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a major public health problem as it affects 300000 individuals worldwide. Complications arising from SCD include anemia, microvascular occlusion, severe pain, stokes, renal dysfunction and infections. A lucrative therapeutic strategy is to employ anti-sickling agents that can disrupt the formation of the HbS polymer. This study therefore employed cheminformatic approaches, encompassing classification structure-activity relationship (CSAR) modeling, to deduce the privileged substructures giving rise to the anti-sickling activity of an investigated set of 115 compounds, followed by substructure analysis. Briefly, the compiled compounds were described by fingerprint descriptors and used in the construction of CSAR models via several machine learning algorithms. The modelability of the data set, as exemplified by the MODI index, was determined to be in the range of 0.70-0.84. The predictive performance was deduced by the accuracy, sensitivity, specificity and Matthews correlation coefficient, which was found to be statistically robust, whereby the former three parameters afforded values in excess of 0.7 while the latter statistical parameter provided a value greater than 0.5. An analysis of the top 20 important substructure descriptors for anti-sickling activity revealed that 10 important features were significant in the differentiation of actives from inactives, as illustrated by aromaticity/conjugation (e.g. SubFPC287, SubFPC171 and SubFPC5), carbonyl groups (e.g. SubFPC137, SubFPC139, SubFPC49 and SubFPC135) and miscellaneous groups (e.g. SubFPC303, SubFPC302 and SubFPC275). Furthermore, an analysis of the structure-activity relationship revealed that the length of alkyl chains, choice of functional moiety and position of substitution on the benzene ring may affect the anti-sickling activity of these compounds. Thus, this knowledge is anticipated to be useful for guiding the design of robust compounds against the gelling activity of HbS, as preliminarily demonstrated in the data-driven compound design presented herein.