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Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry

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QSAR Research of Novel Tetrandrine Derivatives against Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Author(s): Meng Wang, Bin Qiu, Wenhui Wang, Xiang Li and Huixia Huo*

Volume 23, Issue 19, 2023

Published on: 12 September, 2023

Page: [2146 - 2153] Pages: 8

DOI: 10.2174/1871520623666230831103936

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Abstract

Background: The new tetrandrine derivative is an anti-human liver cancer cell inhibitor which can be used to design and develop anti-human-liver-cancer drugs.

Objective: A quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) model was established to predict the physical properties of new tetrandrine derivatives using their chemical structures.

Methods: The best descriptors were selected through CODESSA software to build a multiple linear regression model. Then, gene expression programming (GEP) was used to establish a nonlinear quantitative QSAR model with descriptors to predict the activity of a series of novel tetrandrine chemotherapy drugs. The best active compound 31 was subjected to molecular docking experiments through SYBYL software with a small fragment of the protein receptor (PDB ID:2J6M).

Results: Four descriptors were selected to build a multiple linear regression model with correlation coefficients R2, R2CV and S2 with the values of 0.8352, 0.7806 and 0.0119, respectively. The training and test sets with a correlation coefficient of 0.85 and 0.83 were obtained via an automatic problem-solving program (APS) using the four selected operators as parameters, with a mean error of 1.49 and 1.08. Compound 31 had a good docking ability with an overall score of 5.8892, a collision rate of -2.8004 and an extreme value of 0.9836.

Conclusion: The computer-constructed drug molecular model reveals the factors affecting the activity of human hepatocellular carcinoma cells, which provides directions and guidance for the development of highly effective anti-humanhepatocellular- carcinoma drugs in the future.

Keywords: Tetrandrine, structure-activity relationship, heuristic, gene expression, molecular docking, QSAR model.

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