Issue 54, 2015

Identification and analysis of the currently available high-confidence three-dimensional activity cliffs

Abstract

Three-dimensional activity cliffs (3D-cliffs) were determined on the basis of the X-ray structures of protein–ligand complexes currently available in the Protein Data Bank (PDB). For a given target, all the bound small molecular ligands were compared in a pairwise manner and ligand pairs with at least 80% 3D similarity of their binding modes and an at least 100-fold difference in potency were identified and classified as 3D-cliffs. Only high-confidence activity data were considered. All the 3D-cliffs were subjected to visual inspection and categorized according to ligand–target interaction differences. In addition, relationships between 3D-cliffs were systematically explored. Compared to a previous survey, in which 216 3D-cliffs were detected, the current study identified a total of 630 3D-cliffs that involved 580 unique ligands with activity against 61 human targets belonging to 25 families. Thus, over the past few years, there has been significant growth in high-confidence activity cliff information at the structural level. Notable increases in the number of 3D-cliffs were observed for a number of different targets, in particular, proteases. The pool of currently available 3D-cliffs provides a rich source of information for structure–activity relationship (SAR) analysis and structure-based design.

Graphical abstract: Identification and analysis of the currently available high-confidence three-dimensional activity cliffs

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
28 Jan 2015
Accepted
07 May 2015
First published
07 May 2015

RSC Adv., 2015,5, 43660-43668

Author version available

Identification and analysis of the currently available high-confidence three-dimensional activity cliffs

N. Furtmann, Y. Hu, M. Gütschow and J. Bajorath, RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 43660 DOI: 10.1039/C5RA01730K

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