Superimposition evaluation of ecdysteroid agonist chemotypes through multidimensional QSAR

The EC50 values for a training set of 66 ecdysteroids and 97 diacylhydrazines were measured in the ecdysteroid-responsive Drosophila melanogaster BII cell line, a prototypical homologous inducible gene expression system. Each of eight superimposition hypotheses for the folded diacylhydrazine conformation was evaluated and ranked on the basis of CoMFA and 4D-QSAR Q2 values for the training set and R2 values for a 52-member test set comprising randomly-chosen diacylhydrazines and chronologically-chosen ecdysteroids for which data became available after model construction. Both 4D-QSAR and CoMFA rate a common superimposition as the preferred one. Two additional superimpositions, with somewhat weaker 4D-QSAR and CoMFA consensus, nonetheless share several important topological features. The resultant QSAR models address the question of relative binding orientation of the two ligand families and can be useful as a virtual screen for new chemotypes.

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