Bladder cancer (BLC) is a very dangerous and common disease which is characterized by an uncontrolled growth of the urinary bladder cells.
In the field of chemotherapy, many compounds have been synthesized and evaluated as anti-BLC agents. The future design of more potent anti-BLC drugs depends on a rigorous and rational discovery, where the computer-aided design (CADD) methodologies should play a very important role. However, until, now there is no CADD methodology able to predict anti-BLC activity of compounds versus different BLC cell lines. We report in this work the first unified approach by exploring Quantitative-Structure Activity Relationship (QSAR) studies using a large and heterogeneous database of compounds. Here, we constructed two multi-target (mt) QSAR models for the classification of compounds as anti-BLC agents against four BLC cell lines. The first model was based on linear discriminant analysis (mt-QSAR-LDA) employing fragment-based descriptors while the second model was obtained using artificial neural networks (mt-QSAR-ANN) with global 2D descriptors. Both models correctly classified more than 90% of active and inactive compounds in training and prediction sets. We also extracted different substructural patterns which could be responsible for the activity/inactivity of molecules against BLC and we suggested new molecular entities as possible potent and versatile anti-BLC agents.
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Speck-Planche A, Kleandrova VV, Luan F, Cordeiro MN. Are you the author?
REQUIMTE/Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Porto, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal
Reference: Anticancer Agents Med Chem. 2012 Dec 14. (Epub ahead of print)
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 23272967
