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  • Medicinal Chemistry
  • Computational Drug Discovery

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  • Privileged substructures (PS) are key building blocks in drug discovery.
  • Activity cliffs (ACs) highlight critical structure-activity relationship (SAR) changes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the interplay between PSs and ACs.
  • To understand how PSs influence the formation of ACs.

Main Methods:

  • Systematic exploration of ACs formed by compounds containing PSs (PS-ACs).
  • Characterization and comparison of PS-ACs with other ACs.
  • Network analysis of PS-AC clusters.

Main Results:

  • PS-ACs are frequently identified across various compound series.
  • Differences in AC formation were observed between different PSs.
  • Specific PSs were identified as having a high proportion of AC-forming compounds.
  • Network analysis revealed clusters of ACs with shared PSs across different targets and contexts.

Conclusions:

  • PSs play a significant role in the formation of activity cliffs.
  • PS-AC network analysis can extract target-specific SAR information.
  • This approach aids in understanding SAR determinants and optimizing drug design.