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Nanomechanics of Drug-target Interactions and Antibacterial Resistance Detection
Published on: October 25, 2013
Computational modeling in nanomedicine: prediction of multiple antibacterial profiles of nanoparticles using a
Alejandro Speck-Planche1, Valeria V Kleandrova, Feng Luan
1REQUIMTE/Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Porto, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal.
Aims:
We introduce the first quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) perturbation model for probing multiple antibacterial profiles of nanoparticles (NPs) under diverse experimental conditions.
Materials & Methods:
The dataset is based on 300 nanoparticles containing dissimilar chemical compositions, sizes, shapes and surface coatings. In general terms, the NPs were tested against different bacteria, by considering several measures of antibacterial activity and diverse assay times. The QSAR perturbation model was created from 69,231 nanoparticle-nanoparticle (NP-NP) pairs, which were randomly generated using a recently reported perturbation theory approach.
Results:
The model displayed an accuracy rate of approximately 98% for classifying NPs as active or inactive, and a new copper-silver nanoalloy was correctly predicted by this model with consensus accuracy of 77.73%.
Conclusion:
Our QSAR perturbation model can be used as an efficacious tool for the virtual screening of antibacterial nanomaterials.
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