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ArticleFood and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association2018

Chemical toxicity prediction for major classes of industrial chemicals: Is it possible to develop universal models covering cosmetics, drugs, and pesticides?

Vinicius M Alves, Eugene N Muratov, Alexey Zakharov, Nail N Muratov, Carolina H Andrade, Alexander Tropsha

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Article in Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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27 citing papers in PubMed, 71 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Vinicius M AlvesLaboratory for Molecular Modeling, Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA; Laboratory of Molecular Modeling and Drug Design, Faculty of Pharmacy, Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, GO, 74605-170, Brazil.
Eugene N MuratovLaboratory for Molecular Modeling, Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA; Department of Chemical Technology, Odessa National Polytechnic University, Odessa, 65000, Ukraine.
Alexey ZakharovNational Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, 20850, USA.
Nail N MuratovDepartment of Chemical Technology, Odessa National Polytechnic University, Odessa, 65000, Ukraine.
Carolina H AndradeLaboratory of Molecular Modeling and Drug Design, Faculty of Pharmacy, Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, GO, 74605-170, Brazil.
Alexander TropshaLaboratory for Molecular Modeling, Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA. Electronic address: alex_tropsha@unc.edu.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · USNational Institutes of Health · USOdessa National Polytechnic University · UAUniversidade Federal de Goiás · BR

Funding

Inxight Informatics System - Repository of Therapeutic HypothesesZIATR000058 · NCATS · NATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVANCING TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES · PI MATHE, EWY · 2015 to 2022
$17.9M
Drug Repurposing for Cancer Therapy: From Man to Molecules to ManU01CA207160 · NCI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI TROPSHA, ALEXANDER · 2016 to 2018
$1.2M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA TR000058NCI NIH HHS U01 CA207160
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Computational models have earned broad acceptance for assessing chemical toxicity during early stages of drug discovery or environmental safety assessment. The majority of publicly available QSAR toxicity models have been developed for datasets including mostly drugs or drug-like compounds. We have evaluated and compared chemical spaces occupied by cosmetics, drugs, and pesticides, and explored whether current computational models of toxicity endpoints can be universally applied to all these chemicals. Our analysis of the chemical space overlap and applicability domain (AD) of models built previously for twenty different toxicity endpoints showed that most of these models afforded high coverage (>90%) for all three classes of compounds analyzed herein. Only T. pyriformis models demonstrated lower coverage for drugs and pesticides (38% and 54%, respectively). These results show that, for the most part, historical QSAR models built with data available for different toxicity endpoints can be used for toxicity assessment of novel chemicals irrespective of the intended commercial use; however, the AD restriction is necessary to assure the expected prediction accuracy. Local models may need to be developed to capture chemicals that appear as outliers with respect to global models.

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Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse ReactionsModels, ChemicalCosmeticsPesticidesQuantitative Structure-Activity RelationshipToxicity TestsCosmeticsPesticidesChemical spaceCosmeticsDrugsPesticidesPredictionQSAR models

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PMID28412406
PMCPMC5638676
OpenAlexW2606096698

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