QSAR study of anti-HIV activities against HIV-1 and some of their mutant strains for a group of HEPT derivatives

Abstract

A quantitative structure activity relationship analysis (QSAR) has been applied to a data set of 23 derivatives of l-2-[(hydroxyethoxy)methyl]-6- (phenylthio)thymine (HEPT) with their anti-HIV activities. Semi-empirical quantum chemical calculations at the AMI level were used to find the 3D geometry of the studied molecules. Whole numbers of descriptors were calculated with Dragon software, and a subset of calculated descriptors was selected from 1481 Dragon descriptors with the forward stepwise multiple linear regression (MLR) method. Then anti-HIV activities against HIV-1 and four HIV-1 mutant strains containing single mutations in their reverse transcriptases (RTs) were studied, and five equations with excellent statistical qualities were obtained using multiple linear regression. The activities of these compounds were also calculated in predictions, and good correlation coefficients were obtained.