2D-QSAR and 3D-QSAR Analyses for EGFR Inhibitors

Biomed Res Int. 2017:2017:4649191. doi: 10.1155/2017/4649191. Epub 2017 May 29.

Abstract

Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is an important target for cancer therapy. In this study, EGFR inhibitors were investigated to build a two-dimensional quantitative structure-activity relationship (2D-QSAR) model and a three-dimensional quantitative structure-activity relationship (3D-QSAR) model. In the 2D-QSAR model, the support vector machine (SVM) classifier combined with the feature selection method was applied to predict whether a compound was an EGFR inhibitor. As a result, the prediction accuracy of the 2D-QSAR model was 98.99% by using tenfold cross-validation test and 97.67% by using independent set test. Then, in the 3D-QSAR model, the model with q2 = 0.565 (cross-validated correlation coefficient) and r2 = 0.888 (non-cross-validated correlation coefficient) was built to predict the activity of EGFR inhibitors. The mean absolute error (MAE) of the training set and test set was 0.308 log units and 0.526 log units, respectively. In addition, molecular docking was also employed to investigate the interaction between EGFR inhibitors and EGFR.

MeSH terms

  • ErbB Receptors / antagonists & inhibitors*
  • ErbB Receptors / chemistry*
  • Humans
  • Models, Molecular*
  • Protein Kinase Inhibitors / chemistry*
  • Structure-Activity Relationship

Substances

  • Protein Kinase Inhibitors
  • EGFR protein, human
  • ErbB Receptors