Volume 27, Issue 3 pp. 557-564
Full Paper

Pharmacophore Identification of Hydroxamate HDAC 1 Inhibitors

Liqin YU

Liqin YU

Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Intervention, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210009, China

Search for more papers by this author
Fei LIU

Fei LIU

Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Intervention, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210009, China

Search for more papers by this author
Yadong CHEN

Yadong CHEN

Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Intervention, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210009, China

Search for more papers by this author
Qidong YOU

Qidong YOU

Tel.: 0086-025-83271351; Fax: 0086-025-83271351

Search for more papers by this author
First published: 02 April 2009
Citations: 8

Abstract

A three-dimensional pharmacophore model was established based on 24 hydroxamate histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors by HypoGen algorithm embedded in Catalyst software. The best pharmacophore hypothesis (Hypo1), consisting of four chemical features (one hydrogen-bond acceptor, one aromatic ring and two hydrophobic groups), has a correlation coefficient of 0.946. The Hypol was also validated by a test set consisting of 20 other compounds. Compared with the prior studies towards HDAC inhibitors the detailed chemical features of the "CAP" region in the reported HDAC inhibitors were for the first time depicted, which would be helpful in the further designing of novel HDAC inhibitors.

The full text of this article hosted at iucr.org is unavailable due to technical difficulties.