Design and QSAR study of analogs of gamma-tocotrienol with enhanced antiproliferative activity against human breast cancer cells.

Abstract

Quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSAR) study has been performed for two sets of the antitumor drugs against human breast cancer MCF-7 cell lines, alpha-tocopherol and cholesterol derivatives. Constitutional, geometrical, physico-chemical and electronic descriptors (using the density functional theory, B3LYP/6-31G (d,p) basis set) were computed and analyzed. The most relevant of these descriptors were grouped and multiple linear regressions have been carried out. Optimal QSAR models with three and four variables, R(2)>0.95 and cross-validation parameter q(pre)(2)>0.88, were selected. Based on the QSAR study, novel vitamin-E derivatives (compounds D-1 and D-2) were designed and their antiproliferative activities were evaluated using the proposed regression models. Calculated antiproliferative activities of the designed compounds, IC(50) (D-1): 3.09 microM and IC(50) (D-2): 3.54 microM, were significantly stronger than anticancer effect of the other analyzed compounds IC(50): 4-1461 microM.

• Authors: Katarina Nikolic, Danica Agababa
• Journal: Journal of molecular graphics & modelling (J Mol Graph Model) Vol. 27 Issue 7 Pg. 777-83 (Apr 2009) ISSN: 1873-4243 [Electronic] United States
• PMID: 19117779 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)

Chemical References

• Antineoplastic Agents
• Chromans
• Vitamin E
• plastochromanol 8

Topics

• Antineoplastic Agents (chemistry, pharmacology)
• Breast Neoplasms (pathology)
• Cell Line, Tumor
• Cell Proliferation (drug effects)
• Chromans (chemistry, pharmacology)
• Computer-Aided Design
• Drug Design
• Female
• Humans
• Inhibitory Concentration 50
• Linear Models
• Models, Biological
• Models, Chemical
• Molecular Structure
• Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship
• Reproducibility of Results
• Vitamin E (analogs & derivatives, chemistry, pharmacology)