Certain phenyl-substituted hydrocarbons of environmental concern have the potential to disrupt the endocrine system of animals, apparently in association with their estrogenic properties. Competition with natural estrogens for the estrogen receptor is a possible mechanism by which such effects could occur. We used comparative molecular field analysis (CoMFA), a three-dimensional quantitative st...

The cytochrome P450 (CYP)3A4 enzyme affects the metabolism of most drug-like substances, and its inhibition may influence drug safety. Modulation of CYP3A4 by flavonoids, such as anthocyanins, has been shown to inhibit the mutagenic activity of mammalian cells. Considering the previous investigations addressing CYP3A4 inhibition by these substances, we studied the three-dimensional quantitative...

Tie-2, a kind of endothelial cell tyrosine kinase receptor, is required for embryonic blood vessel development and tumor angiogenesis. Several compounds that showed potent activity toward this attractive anticancer drug target in the assay have been reported. In order to investigate the structure-activity correlation of indolocarbazole series compounds and modify them to improve their selectivi...

A series of novel 4-thioquinazoline derivatives containing chalcone moiety were designed, synthesized and systematically evaluated for their antiviral activity against TMV. The bioassay results showed that most of these compounds exhibited moderate to good anti-TMV activity. In particular, compounds M2 and M6 possessed appreciable protection activities against TMV in vivo, with 50% effective co...

We report the inhibition of a human recombinant geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase (GGPPSase) by 23 bisphosphonates and six azaprenyl diphosphates. The IC50 values range from 140 nM to 690 microM. None of the nitrogen-containing bisphosphonates that inhibit farnesyl diphosphate synthase were effective in inhibiting the GGPPSase enzyme. Using three-dimensional quantitative structure-activity re...

Quantitative structure activity relationship (QSAR) were developed to predict toxicity of chlorophenols by correlating LC50 values with five molecular descriptors, chosen to represent lipophilic, electronic and steric effects: the n-octanol/water partition coefficient (log K(ow)), the constant of Hammett (sigma sigma), the acid dissociation constant (pKa), the order valence molecular connectivi...

The extraordinary hypolipidemic effects of polyphenolic compounds from tea have been confirmed in our previous study. To gain compounds with more potent activities, using the conformations of the most active compound revealed by molecular docking, a 3D-QSAR pancreatic lipase inhibitor model with good predictive ability was established and validated by CoMFA and CoMISA methods. With good statist...

2D and 3D QSAR studies were applied on a set of 28 diarylpyrimidine derivatives to model and understand their HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT) inhibitory activities. Special cares were taken to build our set of molecules according to their bioactive conformations which is crucial to elaborate good QSAR models. 2D QSAR was performed using the heuristic method in CODESSA which had led to a linear...

We report the results of a three-dimensional quantitative structure-activity relationship (3D-QSAR)/comparative molecular field analysis (CoMFA) of the activity of 18 bisphosphonates and imidodiphosphate in the inhibition of a mung bean (Vigna radiata L.) vacuolar proton pumping pyrophosphatase (V/H(+)-PPase; EC 3.6.1.1). We find an experimental versus QSAR predicted pK(app)(i) R(2) value of 0....