CCLab—a multi-objective genetic algorithm based combinatorial library design software and an application for histone deacetylase inhibitor design
作者:Guanghua Fang、Mengzhu Xue、Mingbo Su、Dingyu Hu、Yanlian Li、Bing Xiong、Lanping Ma、Tao Meng、Yuelei Chen、Jingya Li、Jia Li、Jingkang Shen
DOI:10.1016/j.bmcl.2012.05.123
日期:2012.7
The introduction of the multi-objective optimization has dramatically changed the virtual combinatorial library design, which can consider many objectives simultaneously, such as synthesis cost and drug-likeness, thus may increase positive rates of biological active compounds. Here we described a software called CCLab (Combinatorial Chemistry Laboratory) for combinatorial library design based on the multi-objective genetic algorithm. Tests of the convergence ability and the ratio to re-take the building blocks in the reference library were conducted to assess the software in silico, and then it was applied to a real case of designing a 5 x 6 HDAC inhibitor library. Sixteen compounds in the resulted library were synthesized, and the histone deactetylase (HDAC) enzymatic assays proved that 14 compounds showed inhibitory ratios more than 50% against tested 3 HDAC enzymes at concentration of 20 mu g/mL, with IC50 values of 3 compounds comparable to SAHA. These results demonstrated that the CCLab software could enhance the hit rates of the designed library and would be beneficial for medicinal chemists to design focused library in drug development (the software can be downloaded at: http://202.127.30.184:8080/drugdesign.html). (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.