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BACKGROUND: Tubulin polymerization inhibitors interfere with microtubule assembly and their functions lead to mitotic arrest, therefore they are attractive target for design and development of novel anticancer compounds. OBJECTIVE: The proposed novel and effective structures following the use of three-dimensionalquantitative structure activity relationship (3D-QSAR) pharmacophore based virtual screening clearly demonstrate the high efficiency of this method in modern drug discovery. METHODS: Combined computational approach was applied to extract the essential 2D and 3D features requirements for higher activity as well as identify new anti-tubulin agents. RESULTS: The best quantitative pharmacophore model, Hypo1, exhibited good correlation of 0.943 (RMSD=1.019) and excellent predictive power in the training set compounds. Generated model AHHHR, was well mapped to colchicine site and three-dimensional spatial arrangement of their features were in good agreement with the vital interactions in the active site. Total prediction accuracy (0.92 for training set and 0.86 for test set), enrichment factor (4.2 for training set and 4.5 for test set) and the area under the ROC curve (0.86 for training set and 0.94 for the test set), the developed model using Extended Class FingerPrints of maximum diameter 4 (ECFP_4) was chosen as the best model. CONCLUSION: Developed computational platform provided a better understanding of requirement features for colchicine site inhibitors and we believe the results of this study might be useful for the rational design and optimization of new inhibitors.
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Antineoplastic Agents/pharmacology , Colchicine/pharmacology , Drug Discovery , Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship , Tubulin Modulators/pharmacology , Tubulin/metabolism , Antineoplastic Agents/chemical synthesis , Antineoplastic Agents/chemistry , Cell Line, Tumor , Cell Proliferation/drug effects , Colchicine/chemical synthesis , Colchicine/chemistry , Dose-Response Relationship, Drug , Drug Evaluation, Preclinical , Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor , Humans , Molecular Docking Simulation , Molecular Structure , Polymerization/drug effects , Tubulin Modulators/chemical synthesis , Tubulin Modulators/chemistryABSTRACT
Metal ion-DNA interactions are important in nature, often changing the genetic material's structure and function. A new Yb complex of YbCl(3) (tris(8-hydroxyquinoline-5-sulfonic acid) ytterbium) was synthesized and utilized as an electrochemical indicator for the detection of DNA oligonucleotide based on its interaction with Yb(QS)(3). Cyclic voltammetry (CV) and fluorescence spectroscopy were used to investigate the interaction of Yb(QS)(3) with ds-DNA. It was revealed that Yb(QS)(3) presented an excellent electrochemical activity on glassy carbon electrode (GCE) and could intercalate into the double helix of double-stranded DNA (ds-DNA). The binding mechanism of interaction was elucidated on glassy carbon electrode dipped in DNA solution and DNA modified carbon paste electrode by using differential pulse voltammetry and cyclic voltammetry. The binding ratio between this complex and ds-DNA was calculated to be 1:1. The extent of hybridization was evaluated on the basis of the difference between signals of Yb(QS)(3) with probe DNA before and after hybridization with complementary DNA. With this approach, this DNA could be quantified over the range from 1 × 10(-8) to 1.1 × 10(-7)M. The interaction mode between Yb(QS)(3) and DNA was found to be mainly intercalative interaction. These results were confirmed with fluorescence experiments.