Journal
JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY
Volume 57, Issue 3, Pages 489-497Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dki470
Keywords
molecular topology; topological indices; antimalarials; Plasmodium falciparum; QSAR studies
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Objectives: A quantitative structure-activity relationship study using a database of 395 compounds previously tested against chloroquine-susceptible strains of the blood stages of Plasmodium falciparum to predict new in vitro antimalarial drugs has been developed. Methods: Topological indices were used as structural descriptors and were related to antimalarial activity by using linear discriminant analysis (LDA) and multilinear regression (MLR). Two discriminant equations were obtained (FD1 and FD2), which allowed us to carry out successful classification of 90% and 80% of compounds, respectively. The IC50 values of the compounds were introduced to get an MLR equation model suitable to predict their in vitro activities. Results: Using this model, a set of 27 drugs against a chloroquine-susceptible clone (3D7) of P. falciparum have been selected and evaluated in vitro. Among these drugs are monensin, nigericin, vincristine, vindesine, ethylhydrocupreine and salinomycin with in vitro IC(50)s at nanomolar concentrations (0.3, 0.4, 2, 6, 26 and 188 nM, respectively). Other compounds such as hycanthone, amsacrine, aphidicolin, bepridil, amiodarone, ranolazine and triclocarban showed in vitro IC50 values below 5 mu M in the mathematical model. Conclusions: These results demonstrate the usefulness of the approach for the selection and design of new lead drugs active against P. falciparum.
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