PMID- 28045255 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20170717 LR - 20191210 IS - 1520-5010 (Electronic) IS - 0893-228X (Linking) VI - 30 IP - 2 DP - 2017 Feb 20 TI - Validation of a Fragment-Based Profiler for Thiol Reactivity for the Prediction of Toxicity: Skin Sensitization and Tetrahymena pyriformis. PG - 604-613 LID - 10.1021/acs.chemrestox.6b00361 [doi] AB - This study outlines the use of a recently developed fragment-based thiol reactivity profiler for Michael acceptors to predict toxicity toward Tetrahymena pyriformis and skin sensitization potency as determined in the Local Lymph Node Assay (LLNA). The results showed that the calculated reactivity parameter from the profiler, -log RC(50)(calc), was capable of predicting toxicity for both end points with excellent statistics. However, the study highlighted the importance of a well-defined applicability domain for each end point. In terms of Tetrahymena pyriformis, this domain was defined in terms of how fast or slowly a given Michael acceptor reacts with thiol leading to two separate quantitative structure-activity models. The first, for fast reacting chemicals required only -log RC(50)(calc) as a descriptor, while the second required the addition of a descriptor for hydrophobicity. Modeling of the LLNA required only a single descriptor, -log RC(50)(calc), enabling potency to be predicted. The applicability domain excluded chemicals capable of undergoing polymerization and those that were predicted to be volatile. The modeling results for both end points, using the -log RC(50)(calc) value from the profiler, were in keeping with previously published studies that have utilized experimentally determined measurements of reactivity. These results demonstrate that the output from the fragment-based thiol reactivity profiler can be used to develop quantitative structure-activity relationship models where reactivity toward thiol is a driver of toxicity. FAU - Ebbrell, David J AU - Ebbrell DJ AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5329-7539 AD - School of Pharmacy and Bimolecular Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University , 3 Byrom Street, Liverpool L3 3AF, England. FAU - Madden, Judith C AU - Madden JC AD - School of Pharmacy and Bimolecular Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University , 3 Byrom Street, Liverpool L3 3AF, England. FAU - Cronin, Mark T D AU - Cronin MT AD - School of Pharmacy and Bimolecular Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University , 3 Byrom Street, Liverpool L3 3AF, England. FAU - Schultz, Terry W AU - Schultz TW AD - Department of Comparative Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, The University of Tennessee , Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States. FAU - Enoch, Steven J AU - Enoch SJ AD - School of Pharmacy and Bimolecular Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University , 3 Byrom Street, Liverpool L3 3AF, England. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Validation Study DEP - 20170119 PL - United States TA - Chem Res Toxicol JT - Chemical research in toxicology JID - 8807448 RN - 0 (Sulfhydryl Compounds) SB - IM MH - Algorithms MH - Animals MH - Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship MH - Skin/*drug effects MH - Sulfhydryl Compounds/chemistry/*toxicity MH - Tetrahymena pyriformis/*drug effects EDAT- 2017/01/04 06:00 MHDA- 2017/07/18 06:00 CRDT- 2017/01/04 06:00 PHST- 2017/01/04 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2017/07/18 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2017/01/04 06:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1021/acs.chemrestox.6b00361 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Chem Res Toxicol. 2017 Feb 20;30(2):604-613. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemrestox.6b00361. Epub 2017 Jan 19.