A Study on the Antipicornavirus Activity of Flavonoid Compounds (Flavones) by Using Quantum Chemical and Chemometric Methods

The AM1 semiempirical method is employed to calculate a set of molecular properties (variables) of 45 flavone compounds with antipicornavirus activity, and 9 new flavone molecules are used for an activity prediction study. Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Hierarchical Cluster Analysis (HCA), Step...

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Published in:Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences 2004-05, Vol.44 (3), p.1153-1161
Main Authors: Souza, Jaime, Molfetta, Fábio A, Honório, Káthia M, Santos, Regina H. A, da Silva, Albérico B. F
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Antiviral Agents - chemistry
Antiviral Agents - pharmacology
Chemicals
Cluster Analysis
Discriminant Analysis
Flavones - chemistry
Flavones - pharmacology
Molecular Structure
Picornaviridae - drug effects
Quantum Theory
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Summary:The AM1 semiempirical method is employed to calculate a set of molecular properties (variables) of 45 flavone compounds with antipicornavirus activity, and 9 new flavone molecules are used for an activity prediction study. Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Hierarchical Cluster Analysis (HCA), Stepwise Discriminant Analysis (SDA), and K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) are employed in order to reduce dimensionality and investigate which subset of variables should be more effective for classifying the flavone compounds according to their degree of antipicornavirus activity. The PCA, HCA, SDA, and KNN methods showed that the variables MR (molar refractivity), B9 (bond order between C9 and C10 atoms), and B25 (bond order between C11 and R7 atoms) are important properties for the separation between active and inactive flavone compounds, and this fact reveals that electronic and steric effects are relevant when one is trying to understand the interaction between flavone compounds with antipicornavirus activity and the biological receptor. In the activity prediction study, using the PCA, HCA, SDA, and KNN methodologies, three of the 9 new flavone compounds studied were classified as potentially active against picornaviruses.
ISSN:0095-2338
1549-9596
1549-960X
DOI:10.1021/ci030384n