TABLE 1

DI for the compounds in several chemical groups, and the number of molecular descriptors selected by RFE for predicting each group of compounds by using a MLM classification system

These chemical groups are arranged in descending order of structural diversity.


Chemical Group

No. of Compounds

DI Value

No. of Molecular Descriptors Selected by RFE
Blood-brain barrier penetrating agents (Li et al., 2005b) 276 0.430 37
Genotoxic agents (Li et al., 2005a) 229 0.441 39
FDA-approved drugs 1121 0.495
CYP3A4 inhibitors 233 0.505
PXR activators (this work) 128 0.535 83
CYP2C9 inhibitors 167 0.541
Negative chemical ionization diversity set 1804 0.544
CYP3A4 substrates 362 0.547
CYP2C9 substrates 144 0.552
P-glycoprotein substrates (Xue et al., 2004b) 116 0.555 22
CYPD6 inhibitors 180 0.575
CYP2D6 substrates 198 0.588
Human intestine absorbing agents (Xue et al., 2004a) 131 0.596 27
PXR activators in Schuster and Langer's pharmacophore model (Schuster and Langer, 2005) 53 0.605
Estrogen receptor agonists (Li et al., 2006)
243
0.618
31