Main aim of the current study was to discover novel inhibitors against Streptococcus pneumoniae MurF enzyme using analogue based drug design. Pharmacophore mapping and 3D-QSAR analysis was performed on some previously synthesized and evaluated sulfonamide derivatives which are known to be potent inhibitors of penicillin resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae MurF receptor. 3D-QSAR study based on the principle of alignment of pharmacophoric features was performed on the same set of inhibitors using the PHASE module of Schrodinger suite. A five point pharmacophore, ADHRR, with one hydrogen bond acceptor, one hydrogen bond donor, one hydrophobic group and two aromatic rings yielded a statistically significant 3D-QSAR model with 0.96 as R2 value for three PLS components and good predictive correlation coefficients of Q2 = 0.8084, F = 140.6 and Pearson-R = 0.9157 for the test set with nine compounds. Thus, indicating good predictive power of the pharmacophore based 3D-QSAR model.
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