Title
Qualitative prediction of blood–brain barrier permeability on a large and refined dataset
Abstract
The prediction of blood–brain barrier permeation is vitally important for the optimization of drugs targeting the central nervous system as well as for avoiding side effects of peripheral drugs. Following a previously proposed model on blood–brain barrier penetration, we calculated the cross-sectional area perpendicular to the amphiphilic axis. We obtained a high correlation between calculated and experimental cross-sectional area (r = 0.898, n = 32). Based on these results, we examined a correlation of the calculated cross-sectional area with blood–brain barrier penetration given by logBB values. We combined various literature data sets to form a large-scale logBB dataset with 362 experimental logBB values. Quantitative models were calculated using bootstrap validated multiple linear regression. Qualitative models were built by a bootstrapped random forest algorithm. Both methods found similar descriptors such as polar surface area, pKa, log, charges and number of positive ionisable groups to be predictive for logBB. In contrast to our initial assumption, we were not able to obtain models with the cross-sectional area chosen as relevant parameter for both approaches. Comparing those two different techniques, qualitative random forest models are better suited for blood-brain barrier permeability prediction, especially when reducing the number of descriptors and using a large dataset. A random forest prediction system (n = 5) based on only four descriptors yields a validated accuracy of 88%.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10822-011-9478-1
Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design
Keywords
Field
DocType
Blood–brain barrier,Central nervous system,Membrane permeability,QSAR,LogBB,Random forest
Polar surface area,Data mining,Quantitative structure–activity relationship,Data set,Biological system,Bootstrapping,Computational chemistry,Chemistry,Random forest,Blood–brain barrier,Bootstrapping (electronics),Linear regression
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
25
12
0920-654X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
18
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Markus Muehlbacher120.71
Gudrun Spitzer2594.76
Klaus R Liedl310217.06
Johannes Kornhuber4565.73