Conservation and Relevance of Pharmacophore Point Types

Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling
Tobias Fehlmann, Michael C Hutter

Abstract

Pharmacophore models in general use a variety of features for distinct chemical characteristics, such as hydrogen-bond properties, lipohilicity, and ionizability. Usually, features have to match onto their identical type. To clarify if this stringent one-to-one assignment is justified, we investigated a set of 581 unique ligands from the BindingDB with known orientation inside the respective binding pockets and conducted a statistical analysis of the likelihood of observed exchanges in between the pharmacophore features, respectively their degree of conservation. To find out if certain features are obsolete, we derived a ranking to determine the most relevant ones. We found that the most conserved one-to-one feature is the negative ionizable (acids), followed by hydrogen-bond donor, positive ionizable (basic nitrogens), hydrogen-bond acceptor, aromatic, nonaromatic π-systems, and other lipophilic characteristics. The most likely exchanges were found between carboxylate groups and hydrogen-bond acceptors and likewise between basic nitrogens and hydrogen-bond donors, which reflects the characteristics of Lewis acids and bases. Exchanges between hydrogen-bond donors and hydrogen-bond acceptors are hardly more likely than by chance...Continue Reading

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