Abstract:
:Polo-like kinase 1, an important enzyme with diverse biological actions in cell mitosis, is a promising target for developing novel anticancer drugs. A combined molecular docking, structure-based pharmacophore modeling and three-dimensional quantitative structure-activity relationship (3D-QSAR) study was performed on a set of 4,5-dihydro-1H-pyrazolo[4,3-h]quinazoline derivatives as PLK1 inhibitors. The common substructure, molecular docking and pharmacophore-based alignment were used to develop different 3D-QSAR models. The comparative molecular field analysis (CoMFA) and comparative molecule similarity indices analysis (CoMSIA) models gave statistically significant results. These models showed good q(2) and r(2) (pred) values and revealed a good response to test set validation. All of the structural insights obtained from the 3D-QSAR contour maps are consistent with the available crystal structure of PLK1. The contour maps obtained from the 3D-QSAR models in combination with the structure based pharmacophore model help to better interpret the structure-activity relationship. These satisfactory results may aid the design of novel PLK1 inhibitors. This is the first report on 3D-QSAR study of PLK1 inhibitors.
journal_name
Int J Mol Scijournal_title
International journal of molecular sciencesauthors
Lu S,Liu HC,Chen YD,Yuan HL,Sun SL,Gao YP,Yang P,Zhang L,Lu Tdoi
10.3390/ijms12128713subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2011-01-01 00:00:00pages
8713-39issue
12issn
1422-0067pii
ijms-12-08713journal_volume
12pub_type
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