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ArticleScientific reports2024

Exploring the properties of antituberculosis drugs through QSPR graph models and domination-based topological descriptors.

Thilsath Parveen S, Balamurugan Bommahalli Jayaraman, Muhammad Kamran Siddiqui

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Thilsath Parveen SDepartment of Mathematics, School of Advanced Sciences, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai Campus, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600127, India.
Balamurugan Bommahalli JayaramanDepartment of Mathematics, School of Advanced Sciences, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai Campus, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600127, India. balamurugan.bj@vit.ac.in.
Muhammad Kamran SiddiquiDepartment of Mathematics, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, Lahore, Pakistan.

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Tuberculosis (TB) is a global health concern caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This infectious disease primarily affects the lungs but can also impact other organs. Effective TB control involves early diagnosis, appropriate treatment with a combination of antibiotics, and public health measures to prevent transmission. However, ongoing challenges include drug-resistant strains and socioeconomic factors influencing its prevalence. Drugs such as isoniazid, pyrazinamide, ethambutol, ethionamide, linezolid, and levofloxacin are approved for the treatment of drug-susceptible tuberculosis. The properties and other activities of the drug, can be analyzed by modelling its chemical structure in terms of a molecular graph [Formula: see text], by considering the atoms as the vertex set [Formula: see text] and the bonds between the two atoms as the edge set [Formula: see text]. A molecular descriptor or topological index of [Formula: see text] represents the corresponding chemical molecule as a numerical value. Domination is one of the key concepts in the molecular structure used to analyze the properties of atoms. In this article, the domination distance-based topological indices of the drugs isoniazid, pyrazinamide, ethambutol, ethionamide, linezolid, and levofloxacin are computed to conduct QSPR (Quantitative Structure-Property Relationship) analysis, exploring their physicochemical and ADMET (Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, Excretion, and Toxicity) properties. Quadratic regression is then used in the QSPR analysis to examine the physicochemical and ADMET properties of these drugs. The results of this analysis indicate that the domination Schultz index and domination SM index are the indices most strongly correlated with the majority of the physicochemical and ADMET properties. The QSPR analysis can also be extended to analogs of these drugs and to other treatment drugs, such as rifampin and rifapentine, to further explore their properties.

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Antitubercular AgentsMycobacterium tuberculosisQuantitative Structure-Activity RelationshipHumansTuberculosisAntitubercular AgentsADMET propertiesDominationDomination distance-based topological indicesMinimum domination distancePhysicochemical propertiesQSPR analysisTuberculosis

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