Structural Findings of 2‐Phenylindole‐3‐Carbaldehyde Derivatives for Antimitotic Activity by FA‐sMLR QSAR Analysis
Amit Kumar Halder, Nilanjan Adhikari, Tarun Jha · Chemical Biology & Drug Design · 2009
Antimitotic agents prevent the mitosis process of cell cycle and are generally used for the treatment of cancer with good clinical success. QSAR analysis was performed on 33 reported 2-phenylindole-3-carbaldehyde derivatives to find out the structural requirements of these compounds for higher antimitotic activity. The dataset was divided into test set and training set by k-MCA. Factor analysis-stepwise multiple linear regression (FA-sMLR) method was used to develop statistically significant QSAR equations. QSAR analysis showed importance of topological indices like RTSA indices, structural information content indices, Balaban-type index from van der Waals weighted distance matrix Jhetv, rotatable bond fraction RBF, and Lovasz-Pelikan index LP1 on biological activity. The study also shows significance of electrostatic potential charges of different atoms as well as principal moment of inertia along Y axis and number of nitrogen atoms toward antimitotic activity of these compounds.