Journal
NANOMEDICINE
Volume 10, Issue 2, Pages 193-204Publisher
FUTURE MEDICINE LTD
DOI: 10.2217/NNM.14.96
Keywords
antibacterial activity; moving average approach; nanoparticle; perturbation; QSAR
Funding
- Portuguese FCT - Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia [Pest-C/EQB/LA0006/2013]
- European Union (FEDER) [NORTE-07-0124-FEDER-000067-NANOCHEMISTRY]
- Portuguese FCT, QREN/POPH/MEC
- European Social Fund [SFRH/BD/77690/2011, SFRH/BPD/63666/2009]
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Aims: We introduce the first quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) perturbation model for probing multiple antibacterial profiles of nanoparticles (NPs) under diverse experimental conditions. Materials & methods: The dataset is based on 300 nanoparticles containing dissimilar chemical compositions, sizes, shapes and surface coatings. In general terms, the NPs were tested against different bacteria, by considering several measures of antibacterial activity and diverse assay times. The QSAR perturbation model was created from 69,231 nanoparticle-nanoparticle (NP-NP) pairs, which were randomly generated using a recently reported perturbation theory approach. Results: The model displayed an accuracy rate of approximately 98% for classifying NPs as active or inactive, and a new copper-silver nanoalloy was correctly predicted by this model with consensus accuracy of 77.73%. Conclusion: Our QSAR perturbation model can be used as an efficacious tool for the virtual screening of antibacterial nanomaterials.
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