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86. 90), by far the best correlation of any single parameter examined. 50) for the set of 9 haloacids when the 2 inactives are excluded. 29 for L'lE(X- loss). 55, respectively. This ability of the n=9 regression to extrapolate well beyond its range of modeled activity to predict very low activities for DFA and 2-FPA increases confidence in its validity. 0. 95 for 10g(A) vs. L'lE(MeS' conj) represents the most successful attempt to relate all 11 haloacids according to the same property metric. Another measure of success of this parameter correlation, however, is its ability to reproduce the correct relative orderings of activities within chemically meaningful subclasses of the data set.
2000) that only the non-fluorinated dihaloacetic acids inhibit their own metabolism through covalent modification of the GSTZ enzyme. Note that both BFA and CFA have significantly greater experimental enzyme activities than the corresponding non-fluorinated dihaloacids, BCA, DCA and DBA (Table 1 and Figure 3). , 1999). Clearly, this introduces uncertainty in the reported substrate enzyme activities used as the basis of the present SAR analysis. However, it is perhaps reasonable to assume that if no competitive inhibition of GSTZ were occurring, the experimental activities of the non-fluorinated haloacids in Figure 3 would be higher in relation to the fluorinated dihaloacids than reported.
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