Quantitative structure activity relationship were used to study a series of novel curcumin-related compounds with inhibitory effect on prostate cancer PC-3 cells, pancreas cancer Panc-1 cells, and colon cancer HT-29 cells.
Statistical criteria shown that the best regression and feature selection methods are multiple linear regression with stepwise (for PC-3 and Panc-1 cells) and principal component regression with stepwise (for HT-29 cells).
6ChainCount, T_C_C_1, and T_O_O_7 are the most important descriptors that have the greatest effect.
Modification of curcumin-related compounds can be done by the introduction of heteroatoms and distal heterocyclic aromatic rings in the chemical structure.