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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL INFORMATION AND MODELING
卷 49, 期 6, 页码 1420-1427出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ci800445a
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- NIH [R15CA125623]
- College of Graduate Health Sciences, University of Tennessee Health Science Center
- NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE [R15CA125623] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
We recently discovered a new class of thiazole analogs that are highly potent against melanoma cells. To expand the structure-activity relationship study and to explore potential new molecular scaffolds, we performed extensive ligand-based virtual screening against a compound library containing 342 910 small molecules. Two different approaches of virtual screening were carried out using the structure of our lead molecule: (1) connectivity-based search using Scitegic Pipeline Pilot from Accelerys and (2) molecular shape similarity search using Schrodinger software. Using a testing compound library, both approaches can rank similar compounds very high and rank dissimilar compounds very low, thus validating our screening methods. Structures identified from these searches were analyzed, and selected compounds were tested in vitro to assess their activity against melanoma cancer cell lines. Several molecules showed good anticancer activity. While none of the identified compounds showed better activity than our lead compound, they provided important insight into structural modifications for our lead compound and also provided novel platforms on which we can optimize new classes of anticancer compounds. One of the newly synthesized analogs based on this virtual screening has improved potency and selectivity against melanoma.
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