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Morena Spreafico1, Martin Smiesko1, Ourania Peristera1
1Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 50, 4056 Basel (Switzerland).
Abstract:
The LXR model has been added in the VirtualToxLab, a fully automated technology that allows for the identification of the endocrine-disrupting potential of drugs, chemicals and natural products. This protocol has then been applied to screen a series of 161 natural compounds probing their binding to the LXR. The results of the simulation were compared with experimental data (where available) and suggest that the LXR model can be applied to predict the binding affinity of existing or hypothetical compounds for screening purposes. The binding of 52 ligands towards the liver X receptors (LXRs) was identified trough docking to the three-dimensional protein structure and quantified by multidimensional QSAR (mQSAR), an approach referred to as 'mixed-model QSAR'. The model was validated by the prediction of 17 external compounds (oxysterols) present neither in the training nor in the test set. The robustness of the model was verified by consensus scoring using a conceptually different methodology, and chance correlation was ruled out by a series of scramble tests.
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