Pharmaceuticals 2011, 4(9), 1236-1247; doi:10.3390/ph4091236
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Target Profile Prediction and Practical Evaluation of a Biginelli-Type Dihydropyrimidine Compound Library

Petra Schneider, Katharina Stutz † , Ladina Kasper † , Sarah Haller, Michael Reutlinger, Felix Reisen, Tim Geppert and Gisbert Schneider* email
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 10, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland † These authors contributed equally to this work.
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Received: 26 August 2011; in revised form: 13 September 2011 / Accepted: 16 September 2011 / Published: 20 September 2011
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Drug Design)
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Abstract: We present a self-organizing map (SOM) approach to predicting macromolecular targets for combinatorial compound libraries. The aim was to study the usefulness of the SOM in combination with a topological pharmacophore representation (CATS) for selecting biologically active compounds from a virtual combinatorial compound collection, taking the multi-component Biginelli dihydropyrimidine reaction as an example. We synthesized a candidate compound from this library, for which the SOM model suggested inhibitory activity against cyclin-dependent kinase 2 (CDK2) and other kinases. The prediction was confirmed in an in vitro panel assay comprising 48 human kinases. We conclude that the computational technique may be used for ligand-based in silico pharmacology studies, off-target prediction, and drug re-purposing, thereby complementing receptor-based approaches.
Keywords: combinatorial chemistry; drug design; in silico pharmacology; kinase inhibitor; multi-component reaction; self-organizing map

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Schneider, P.; Stutz, K.; Kasper, L.; Haller, S.; Reutlinger, M.; Reisen, F.; Geppert, T.; Schneider, G. Target Profile Prediction and Practical Evaluation of a Biginelli-Type Dihydropyrimidine Compound Library. Pharmaceuticals 2011, 4, 1236-1247.

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Schneider P, Stutz K, Kasper L, Haller S, Reutlinger M, Reisen F, Geppert T, Schneider G. Target Profile Prediction and Practical Evaluation of a Biginelli-Type Dihydropyrimidine Compound Library. Pharmaceuticals. 2011; 4(9):1236-1247.

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Schneider, Petra; Stutz, Katharina; Kasper, Ladina; Haller, Sarah; Reutlinger, Michael; Reisen, Felix; Geppert, Tim; Schneider, Gisbert. 2011. "Target Profile Prediction and Practical Evaluation of a Biginelli-Type Dihydropyrimidine Compound Library." Pharmaceuticals 4, no. 9: 1236-1247.

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