PMID- 27160290 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20171003 LR - 20191210 IS - 1875-6220 (Electronic) IS - 1570-1638 (Linking) VI - 13 IP - 2 DP - 2016 TI - Imidazolium Ionic Liquids as Potential Anti-Candida Inhibitors: QSAR Modeling and Experimental Studies. PG - 109-19 AB - Quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSAR) of imidazolium ionic liquids (ILs) as inhibitors of C. albicans collection strains (IOA-109, KCTC 1940, ATCC 10231) have been studied. Predictive QSAR models were built using different descriptor sets for a set of 88 ionic liquids with known minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) against C. albicans. We applied the state-of-the-art QSAR methodologies such as WEKA Random Forest (RF) as a binary classifier, Associative Neural Networks (ASNN) and k-Nearest Neighbors (k-NN) to build continuum non-linear regression models. The obtained models were validated using a 5-fold cross-validation approach and resulted in the prediction accuracies of 80% +/- 5.0 for the classification models and q2 = 0.73-0.87 for the non-linear regression models. Biological testing of newly synthesized 1,3-dialkylimidazolium ionic liquids with predicted activity was performed by disco-diffusion method against C. albicans ATCC 10231 M885 strain and clinical isolates C. albicans, C. krusei and C. glabrata strains. The high percentage of coincidence between the QSAR predictions and the experimental results confirmed the high predictive power of the developed QSAR models within the applicability domain of new imidazolium ionic liquids. FAU - Hodyna, Diana AU - Hodyna D AD - Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry and Petrochemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 1 Murmanska Street, Kyiv-94, 02660, Ukraine. dianahodyna@gmail.com. FAU - Kovalishyn, Vasyl AU - Kovalishyn V FAU - Rogalsky, Sergiy AU - Rogalsky S FAU - Blagodatnyi, Volodymyr AU - Blagodatnyi V FAU - Metelytsia, Larisa AU - Metelytsia L LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - United Arab Emirates TA - Curr Drug Discov Technol JT - Current drug discovery technologies JID - 101157212 RN - 0 (Antifungal Agents) RN - 0 (Imidazoles) RN - 0 (Ionic Liquids) SB - IM MH - Antifungal Agents/chemistry/*pharmacology MH - Candida albicans/*drug effects/growth & development MH - Imidazoles/chemistry/*pharmacology MH - Ionic Liquids/chemistry/*pharmacology MH - Machine Learning MH - *Models, Molecular MH - Neural Networks, Computer MH - Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship MH - Regression Analysis MH - Reproducibility of Results EDAT- 2016/05/11 06:00 MHDA- 2017/10/04 06:00 CRDT- 2016/05/11 06:00 PHST- 2016/02/29 00:00 [received] PHST- 2016/04/15 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2016/05/06 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2016/05/11 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2016/05/11 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2017/10/04 06:00 [medline] AID - CDDT-EPUB-75555 [pii] AID - 10.2174/1570163813666160510122201 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Curr Drug Discov Technol. 2016;13(2):109-19. doi: 10.2174/1570163813666160510122201.