RESEARCH ARTICLE
Two- and Three-Dimensional Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships Studies on a Series of Liver X Receptor Ligands
Káthia M Honório*, 1, Lívia B Salum2, Richard C Garratt2, Igor Polikarpov2, Adriano D Andricopulo*, 2
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2008Volume: 2
First Page: 87
Last Page: 96
Publisher ID: TOMCJ-2-87
DOI: 10.2174/1874104500802010087
Article History:
Electronic publication date: 7/10/2008Collection year: 2008
Abstract
Liver X receptor (LXR) is an attractive drug target for the development of novel therapeutic agents for the treatment of dyslipidaemia and cholestasis. In the present work, comparative molecular field analysis (CoMFA) and hologram quantitative structure-activity relationship (HQSAR) studies were conducted on a series of potent LXR ligands. Significant correlation coefficients (CoMFA, r2 = 0.98 and q2 = 0.69; HQSAR, r2 = 0.99 and q2 = 0.85) were obtained, indicating the potential of the models for untested compounds. The models were then used to predict the potency of an external test set, and the predicted values obtained from the 2D and 3D models were in good agreement with the experimental results. The final QSAR models, along with the information obtained from 3D steric and electrostatic contour maps and 2D contribution maps should be useful for the design of novel LXR ligands having improved potency.