Study of Chromatographic Retention of Natural Terpenoids by Chemoinformatic Tools

Author(s)

Oliveira, Tiago B. ^{[1, 2]} ; Gobbo-Neto, Leonardo ^[3] ; Schmidt, Thomas J. ^[2] ; Da Costa, Fernando B. ^[1]

Affiliation

^[1] Univ Sao Paulo, AsterBioChem Res Team, Lab Pharmacognosy, Dept Pharmaceut Sci Ribeirao Preto, BR-14040903 Ribeirao Preto, SP - Brazil

^[2] Univ Munster, IPBP, D-48159 Munster - Germany

^[3] Univ Sao Paulo, Sch Pharmaceut Sci Ribeirao Preto, BR-14040903 Ribeirao Preto, SP - Brazil

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL INFORMATION AND MODELING; v. 55, n. 1, p. 26-38, JAN 2015.
• Web of Science Citations: 13

Abstract

The study of chromatographic retention of natural products can be used to increase their identification speed in complex biological matrices. In this work, six variables were used to study the retention behavior in reversed phase liquid chromatography of 39 sesquiterpene lactones (SL) from an in-house database using chemoinformatics tools. To evaluate the retention of the SL, retention parameters on an ODS C-18 column in two different solvent systems were experimentally obtained, namely, MeOHH2O 55:45 and MeCNH2O 35:75. The chemoinformatics approach involved three descriptor type sets (one 2D and two 3D) comprising three groups of each (four, five, and six descriptors), two different training and test sets, four algorithms for variable selection (best first, linear forward, greedy stepwise, and genetic algorithm), and two modeling methods (partial least-squares regression and back-propagation artificial neural network). The influence of the six variables used in this study was assessed in a holistic context, and influences on the best model for each solvent system were analyzed. The best set for MeOHH2O showed acceptable correlation statistics with training R-2 = 0.91, cross-validation Q(2) = 0.88, and external validation P-2 = 0.80, and the best MeCNH2O model showed much higher correlation statistics with training R-2 = 0.96, cross-validation Q(2) = 0.92, and external validation P-2 = 0.91. Consensus models were built for each chromatographic system, and although all of them showed an improved statistical performance, only one for the MeCNH2O system was able to separate isomers as well as to improve the performance. The approach described herein can therefore be used to generate reproducible and robust models for QSRR studies of natural products as well as an aid for dereplication of complex biological matrices using plant metabolomics-based techniques. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 11/17860-7 - Application of chemoinformatic tools in the study of plant metabolic profiles and dereplication
• Grantee: Tiago Branquinho Oliveira
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• FAPESP's process: 13/14239-5 - Use of chemoinformatic tools to evaluate the behavior of retention times of natural products
• Grantee: Tiago Branquinho Oliveira
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• FAPESP's process: 10/51454-3 - Morphoanatomical, metabolomic and molecular studies as subsidies to the systematic of Asteraceae species and access to their pharmacological potential
• Grantee: Beatriz Appezzato da Glória
• Support Opportunities: Research Projects - Thematic Grants
• FAPESP's process: 08/05754-5 - Phytochemical and chemoinformatics tools and analytical methodologies in the dereplication of extracts of medicinal plants
• Grantee: Leonardo Gobbo Neto
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral