Comparative
molecular field analysis (CoMFA) techniques were used to perform
three-dimensional quantitative structure-activity relationship (3
D-QSAR)
studies on the anti-tumor activity (p
IH and p
IC) of 28
fluoroquinolon-3-yl s-triazole sulfide-ketone derivatives (FQTSDs) against two cancer cell lines,
including human hepatoma Hep-3B cells and human pancreatic cancer Capan-1
cells. 23 compounds were randomly selected as the training set to establish the
prediction models, which were verified by the test set of 6 compounds
containing template molecule. The obtained cross-validation (
Rcv2) and non-cross-validation
correlation coefficients (
R2)
of the CoMFA models were 0.477 and 0.850 for p
IH, and 0.421 and 0.836 for p
IC, respectively. The contributions of steric and
electrostatic fields to p
IH were determined to be 48.1% and 51.9%, and those to p
IC were 49.4%
and 50.6%, respectively. The CoMFA models
were then used to predict the activities of the compounds in the training and
testing sets, and the models had a strong stability and good predictability.
Based on the 3
D contour maps, four
novel FQTSDs with a higher anti-tumor activity were designed. However, the
effectiveness of these novel FQTSDs is still needed to be verified by experimental
results.