Browsing by Author "Weidlich, Iwona E."
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Item Inhibitors for the hepatitis C virus RNA polymerase explored by SAR with advanced machine learning methods(2014-06-01) Weidlich, Iwona E.; Filippov, Igor V.; Brown, Jodian; Basu, Neerja Kaushik; Krishnan, Ramalingam; Nicklaus, Marc C.; Thorpe, Ian F.Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a global health challenge, affecting approximately 200 million people worldwide. In this study we developed SAR models with advanced machine learning classifiers Random Forest and k Nearest Neighbor Simulated Annealing for 679 small molecules with measured inhibition activity for NS5B genotype 1b. The activity was expressed as a binary value (active/inactive), where actives were considered molecules with IC50 ≤ 0.95 μM. We applied our SAR models to various drug-like databases and identified novel chemical scaffolds for NS5B inhibitors. Subsequent in vitro antiviral assays suggested a new activity for an existing prodrug, Candesartan cilexetil, which is currently used to treat hypertension and heart failure but has not been previously tested for anti-HCV activity. We also identified NS5B inhibitors with two novel non-nucleoside chemical motifs.