In Silico Prediction of Eye Irritation Using Hansen Solubility Parameters and Predicted pKa Values
2023 (English)In: ATLA (Alternatives to Laboratory Animals), ISSN 0261-1929, Vol. 51, no 3, p. 204-Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
An in silico method has been developed that permits the binary differentiation between pure liquids causing serious eye damage or eye irritation, and pure liquids with no need for such classification, according to the UN GHS system. The method is based on the finding that the Hansen Solubility Parameters (HSP) of a liquid are collectively important predictors for eye irritation. Thus, by applying a two-tier approach in which in silico predicted pKa values (firstly) and a trained model based solely on in silico-predicted HSP data (secondly) were used, we have developed, and validated, a fully in silico approach for predicting the outcome of a Draize test (in terms of UN GHS Cat. 1/Cat. 2A/Cat. 2B or UN GHS No Cat.) with high validation set performance (sensitivity = 0.846, specificity = 0.818, balanced accuracy = 0.832) using SMILES only. The method is applicable to pure non-ionic liquids with molecular weight below 500 g/mol, fewer than six hydrogen bond donors (e.g. nitrogen–hydrogen or oxygen–hydrogen bonds) and fewer than eleven hydrogen bond acceptors (e.g. nitrogen or oxygen atoms). Due to its fully in silico characteristics, this method can be applied to pure liquids that are still at the desktop design stage and not yet in production.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
SAGE Publications Inc. , 2023. Vol. 51, no 3, p. 204-
Keywords [en]
computational toxicology, eye irritation, genetic algorithm optimisation, Hansen Solubility Parameters, in silico prediction
National Category
Chemical Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-64954DOI: 10.1177/02611929231175676Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85159096294OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-64954DiVA, id: diva2:1764949
Note
Correspondence Address: Andersson, M.; RISE, Sweden; email: martin.andersson@ri.se; Funding details: Stiftelsen för Miljöstrategisk Forskning, DIA 2018/11; Funding text 1: The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article from: The Swedish Fund for Research Without Animal Experiments, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden and MISTRA (The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research, Grant No. DIA 2018/11, Safe and Efficient Chemistry by Design (MISTRA SafeChem, www.mistrasafechem.se )).
2023-06-092023-06-092024-02-19Bibliographically approved