Combined Target-Based and Ligand-Based Drug Design Approach as a Tool To Define a Novel 3D-Pharmacophore Model of Human A3Adenosine Receptor Antagonists: Pyrazolo[4,3-e]1,2,4-triazolo[1,5-c]pyrimidine Derivatives as a Key Study

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Abstract
A combined target-based and ligand-based drug design approach has been carried out to define a novel pharmacophore model of the human A3 receptor antagonists. High throughput molecular docking and comparative molecular field analysis (CoMFA) have been used in tandem to assemble a new target based pharmacophore model. In parallel, to provide more accurate information about the putative binding site of these A3 inhibitors, a rhodopsin-based model of the human A3 receptor was built and a novel Y-shape binding motif has been proposed. Docking-based structure superimposition has been used to perform a quantitative study of the structure−activity relationships for binding of these pyrazolo−triazolo−pyrimidines to adenosine A3 receptor using CoMFA. Both steric and the electrostatic contour plots obtained from the CoMFA analysis nicely fit on the hypothetical binding site obtained by molecular docking. On the basis of the combined hypothesis, we have designed, synthesized, and tested 17 new derivatives. Consistently, the predicted Ki values were very close to the experimental values.