Trospectomycin

Animal species, i.e. rats, are used to evaluate a drugs biol. activity and pharmacokinetics, such as clearance.This study aims to develop a predictive method to evaluate the relationship between the clearance of drugs in rats and humans.Adataset of 395 drugs composed of human and rat clearance data was applied in this study.The drugs, according to the clearance differences, were divided into two groups on the basis of the correlation between humans and rats.Structural parameters were used to develop a model to estimate the class of each drug by binary logistic regression.The results showed that the developed models are a useful way to show which drug have an acceptable correlation between human and rat clearance by using structural features.They can be used to determine the group of drugs with an accuracy of 74%.According to the validation results, the developed method has an acceptable accuracy for checking the relationship between the clearance of drugs in humans and rats.This modeling can be used to exclude the drugs from experiments in rats which reveal a considerable difference between the clearance of humans and that of rats.

Modified 3D-SDAR fingerprints combining (13)C and (15)N NMR chemical shifts augmented with inter-atomic distances were used to model the potential of chemicals to induce phospholipidosis (PLD). A curated dataset of 328 compounds (some of which were cationic amphiphilic drugs) was used to generate 3D-QSDAR models based on tessellations of the 3D-SDAR space with grids of different density. Composite PLS models averaging the aggregated predictions from 100 fully randomized individual models were generated. On each of the 100 runs, the activities of an external blind test set comprised of 294 proprietary chemicals were predicted and averaged to provide composite estimates of their PLD-inducing potentials (PLD+ if PLD is observed, otherwise PLD-). The best performing 3D-QSDAR model utilized a grid with a density of 8ppm×8ppm in the C-C region, 8ppm×20ppm in the C-N region and 20ppm×20ppm in the N-N region. The classification predictive performance parameters of this model evaluated on the basis of the external test set were as follows: accuracy=0.70, sensitivity=0.73 and specificity=0.66. A projection of the most frequently occurring bins on the standard coordinate space suggested a toxicophore composed of an aromatic ring with a centroid 3.5-7.5Å distant from an amino-group. The presence of a second aromatic ring separated by a 4-5Å spacer from the first ring and at a distance of between 5.5Å and 7Å from the amino-group was also associated with a PLD+ effect. These models provide comparable predictive performance to previously reported models for PLD with the added benefit of being based entirely on non-confidential, publicly available training data and with good predictive performance when tested in a rigorous, external validation exercise.