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Research Article

SAR and QSAR research on tyrosinase inhibitors using machine learning methods

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Pages 85-110 | Received 11 Oct 2020, Accepted 07 Dec 2020, Published online: 01 Feb 2021
 

ABSTRACT

Tyrosinase is a key rate-limiting enzyme in the process of melanin synthesis, which is closely related to human pigmentation disorders. Tyrosinase inhibitors can down-regulate tyrosinase to effectively reduce melanin synthesis. In this work, we conducted structure-activity relationship (SAR) study on 1097 diverse mushroom tyrosinase inhibitors. We applied five kinds of machine learning methods to develop 15 classification models. Model 5B built by fully connected neural networks and ECFP4 fingerprints achieved the highest prediction accuracy of 91.36% and Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) of 0.81 on the test set. The applicability domains (AD) of classification models were defined by dSTDPRO method. Moreover, we clustered the 1097 inhibitors into eight subsets by K-Means to figure out inhibitors’ structural features. In addition, 10 quantitative structure–activity relationship (QSAR) models were constructed by four machine learning methods based on 813 inhibitors. Model 6 J, the best QSAR model, was developed by fully connected neural networks with 50 RDKit descriptors. It resulted in a coefficient of determination (r2) of 0.770 and a root mean squared error (RMSE) of 0.482 on the test set. The AD of Model 6 J was visualized by Williams plot. The models built in this study can be obtained from the authors.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Supplementary material

Supplementary data for this article can be accessed at: https://doi.org/10.1080/1062936X.2020.1862297.

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [21675010] and ‘Chemical Grid Project’ of Beijing University of Chemical Technology.

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