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Bono Lucic


Developing methods for modeling properties of bioactive molecules and proteins

Structure-activity relationships of flavonoids

Higher research associate

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curriculum vitae

·         obtained BSc in Electrical engineering in 1989 at The Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (former The Faculty of Electrical Engineering) University of Zagreb (Industrial electronics, microelectronics – design of electrical and topological characteristics of a novel transistor with horizontal flow of electrical current)

·         obtained MSc in Physics (Molecular biophysics – modeling secondary structure of membrane proteins) in 1994 at the Faculty of Science and Mathematics, University of Zagreb)

·         obtained PhD in Chemistry (Theoretical chemistry – ordered orthogonalization of descriptors and its application in development of method for selection of concise structure-activity/property models) in 1997 at the Faculty of Science and Mathematics, University of Zagreb)

·         research associate (2002-2009)

·         higher research associate (2009-)

selected papers

For recent (and others, since 1996) publications/scientific contributions - go to CROSBI

NOTE: if you are interested in reprints of paper(s), please write to Bono Lucic

 

Amić, Dragan; Lučić, Bono; Kovačević, Goran; Trinajstić, Nenad. Bond Dissociation Enthalpies Calculated by the PM3 Method Confirm Activity Cliffs in Radical Scavenging of Flavonoids. // Molecular Diversity. (2008) in press

 

Lučić, Bono; Amić, Dragan; Trinajstić, Nenad.
Antioxidant QSAR modeling as exemplified on polyphenols. // Advanced Protocols in Oxidative Stress I / Armstrong, Donald (ur.), USA: Humana Press, in press.

 

Amić, Dragan; Davidović-Amić, Dušanka; Bešlo, Drago; Rastija, Vesna; Lučić, Bono; Trinajstić, Nenad. SAR and QSAR of the Antioxidant Activity of Flavonoids. // Current Medicinal Chemistry. 14 (2007) , 7; 827-845

 

Juretić, Davor; Lučić, Bono; Trinajstić, Nenad. Why focusing on bioinformatics? // Periodicum biologorum. 107 (2005) , 4; 379-383

 

Pilizota Teuta; Lucic, Bono; Trinajstic, Nenad.
Use of variable selection in modeling the secondary structural content of proteins from their composition of amino acid residues. // Journal of chemical information and computer sciences. 44 (2004) 1; 113 -121

Lucic, Bono; Nadramija, Damir; Basic, Ivan; Trinajstic, Nenad.
Toward generating simpler QSAR models: Nonlinear multivariate regression versus several neural network ensembles and some related methods. // Journal of chemical information and computer sciences. 43 (2003) 4; 1094 -1102

 

Lucic, Bono; Basic, Ivan; Nadramija, Damir; Milicevic, Ante; Trinajstic, Nenad; Suzuki, Takahiro; Petrukhin, Ruslan; Karelson, Mati; Katritzky, Alan, R.
Correlation of liquid viscosity with molecular structure for organic compounds using different variable selection methods. // ARKIVOC. IV (2002) 45-59

 

Lucic, Bono; Amic, Dragan; Trinajstic, Nenad.
Nonlinear multivariate regression outperforms several concisely designed neural networks on three QSPR data sets. // Journal of chemical information and computer sciences. 40 (2000) 2; 403-41

 

Lucic, Bono; Trinajstic, Nenad; Sild, S.; Karelson, M.; Katritzky, A.R.
A new efficient approach for variable selection based on multiregression : prediction of gas chromatographic retention time and response factors. // Journal of chemical information and computer sciences. 39 (1999) , 3; 610-621

 

Lucic, Bono; Trinajstic, Nenad.
Multivariate regression outperforms several robust architectures of neutral networks in QSAR modeling. // Journal of chemical information and computer sciences. 39 (1999) 1; 121-132

 

Juretic, Davor; Zucic, Damir; Lucic, Bono; Trinajstic, Nenad.
Preference functions for prediction of membrane-buried helices in integral membrane proteins. // Computers & chemistry. 22 (1998) , 4; 279-294 [Full-text - PDF] (structural bioinformatics)

 

Juretic, Davor; Lucic, Bono; Zucic, Damir; Trinajstic, Nenad.
Protein transmembrane structure: recognition and prediction by using hydrophobicity scales through preference functions. // Theoretical Organic Chemistry. Vol 5: Theoretical and Computational Chemistry / Parkanyi, C. and
 Herndon, W.C. (Eds.), Elsevier Science B. V., Amsterdam, 1998 (structural bioinformatics)


Lucic, Bono; Trinajstic, Nenad; Juretic, Davor.
Recognition of membrane protein structure from amino acid sequence. // From Chemical Topology to Three-Dimensional Geometry / Balaban, A.T. (Ed.). New York: Plenum Press, 1997
(structural bioinformatics)

 

Lucic, Bono; Nikolic, Sonja; Trinajstic, Nenad; Juretic, Davor.

On the selection of optimum descriptors for structure-property modeling. // Journal of chemical information and computer sciences. 35 (1995) 532-538

 

Juretic, Davor; Trinajstic, Nenad; Lucic, Bono.

Protein secondary structure conformations and associated hydrophobicity scales. // Journal mathematical chemistry. 14 (1993) 35-45 (structural bioinformatics)

 

extended list of papers

 


 Bašic, Ivan; Nadramija, Damir; Flajšlik, Mario; Amić, Dragan; Lučić, Bono.
Modeling anti-HIV activity of HEPT derivatives revisited. Multiregression models are not inferior ones // Special Volume of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) - Conference Proceedings of ICCMSE 2007 / Simos, Theodore (ur.), Melville, NY, USA : American Institute of Physics, 2007


 Janežič, Dušanka; Lučić, Bono; Miličević, Ante; Nikolić, Sonja; Trinajstić, Nenad; Vukičević, Damir. Hosoya Matrices as the Numerical Realization of Graphical Matrices and Derived Structural Descriptors. // Croatica Chemica Acta. 80 (2007) , 2; 271-276


 Janežič, Dušanka; Lučić, Bono; Nikolić, Sonja; Miličević, Ante; Trinajstić, Nenad.
Boiling Points of Alcohols - A Comparative QSPR Study. // Internet Electronic Journal of Molecular Design. 5 (2006) , 4; 192-200


 Supek, Fran; Šmuc, Tomislav; Lučić, Bono.
A prototype structure-activity relationship model based on National Cancer Institute cell line screening data. // Periodicum Biologorum. 107 (2005) , 4; 451-455


 Lučić, Bono; Damir, Nadramija.
Nonlinear Multivariate Polynomial Ensembles in QSAR/QSPR // Proceedings of the International Conference of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering 2005 (ICCMSE 2005 / Simos, Theodore E. (ur.) Atena, Greece, World Scientific, 2005


Bašic, Ivan; Lučić, Bono; Flajšlik, Mario; Amić, Dragan; Trinajstić, Nenad.
Improved multiregression quantitative structure-activity relationship of flavonoid inhibitors of p56lck protein tyrosine kinase by using descriptor selection approach // Proceedings of the International Conference of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering 2005 (ICCMSE 2005) / Simos, Theodore E. (ur.) Atena, Greece, World Scientific, 2005


 Amic, Dragan; Lucic, Bono, Nikolic, Sonja; Trinajstic, Nenad.
Predicting inhibition of microsomal p-hydroxylation of aniline by aliphatic alcohols: a QSAR approach based on the weighted path numbers. // Croatica chemica acta. 74 (2001) ; 237-250


 Lucic, Bono; Istvan, Lukovits; Nikolic, Sonja; Nenad, Trinajstic.
Distance-related indexes in the quantitative structure-property relationship modeling. // Journal of chemical information and computer science. 41 (2001) ; 527-535


 Basak, S.C.; Gute, B.D.; Lucic, Bono; Nikolic, Sonja; Trinajstic, Nenad.
A comparative QSAR study of benzamidines complement-inhibitory activity and benzene derivatives acute toxicity. // Computers and chemistry. 24 (2000) , 2; 181-191


 Katritzky, A.R.; Chen, K.; Wang, Y.; Karelson, M.; Lucic, Bono; Trinajstic, Nenad; Suzuki, T.; Schüürmann, G.
Prediction of liquid viscosity for organic compounds by a quantative structure-property relationship. // Journal of physical organic chemistry. 13 (2000) , 1; 80-86


 Amic, Dragan; Davidovic-Amic, Dusanka; Beslo, Drago; Lucic, Bono; Trinajstic, Nenad.
Prediction of pK Values, half-lives and electronic spectra of flavylium salts from molecular structure. // Journal of chemical information and computer sciences. 39 (1999) , 6; 967-973


 Amic, Dragan; Beslo, Drago; Lucic, Bono; Nikolic, Sonja; Trinajstic, Nenad.
The vertex-connectivity index revisited. // Journal of chemical information and computer sciences. 38 (1998) , 5; 819-822


 Amic, Dragan; Davidovic-Amic, Dusanka; Beslo, Drago; Lucic, Bono; Trinajstic, Nenad.
QSAR of flavylium salts as inhibitors of xanthine oxidase. // Journal of chemical information and computer sciences. 38 (1998) , 5; 815-818


 Lucic, Bono; Trinajstic, Nenad.
New development in QSPR/QSAR modeling based on topological indices. // SAR & QSAR in environmental research. 7 (1997) ; 45-62


 Amic, Dragan; Davidovic-Amic, Dusanka; Beslo, Drago; Lucic, Bono; Trinajstic, Nenad.
A simple QSAR model for trypsin aminopeptidase inhibitory flavonoids. // Croatica chemica acta. 70 (1997) , 4; 905-911


 Amic, Dragan; Davidovic-Amic, Dusanka; Beslo, Drago; Trinajstic, Nenad; Lucic, Bono.
The use of the ordered orthogonalized multivariate linear regression in a structure-activity study of coumarin and flavonoid derivatives as inhibitors of aldose reductase. // Journal of chemical information and computer sciences. 37 (1997) , 3; 581-586


 Klein, D.J.; Randic, Milan; Babic, Darko; Lucic, Bono; Nikolic, Sonja; Trinajstic, Nenad.
Hierarchical Orthogonalization of Descriptors. // International journal of quantum chemistry. 63 (1997) , 1; 215-222


 Trinajstic, Nenad; Nikolic, Sonja; Lucic, Bono; Amic, Dragan; Mihalic, Zlatko.
The detour matrix in chemistry. // Journal of chemical information and computer sciences. 37 (1997) , 4; 631-638


Trinajstić, Nenad; Nikolić, Sonja; Lučić, Bono; Amić, Dragan.
On QSAR Modeling. // Acta pharmaceutica. 45 (1996) , -; 24-263


 Lucic, Bono; Nikolic, Sonja; Trinajstic, Nenad; Juric, Albin; Juretic, Davor.
A novel QSPR approach to physicochemical properties of the alpha-amino acids. // Croatica chemica acta. 68 (1995) 435-450


 Amic, Dragan; Davidovic-Amic, Dušanka; Juric, Albin; Lucic, Bono; Trinajstic, Nenad.

Structure-activity correlation of flavone derivatives for Inhibition of cAMP phosphodiesterase. // Journal of chemical information and computer sciences. 35 (1995) 1034-1038


 Juretic, Davor; Lucic, Bono; Trinajstic, Nenad.

Predicting membrane protein secondary structure - preference functions. Method for finding optimal conformational parameters. // Croatica chemica acta 66 (1993) 201-208 (structural bioinformatics)


 Lucic, Bono; Nikolic, Sonja; Trinajstic, Nenad; Juric, Albin; Juretic, Davor.

A novel QSPR approach to physicochemical properties of the alpha-amino acids. // Croatica chemica acta. 68 (1995) 435-450


 Lucic, Bono; Nikolic, Sonja; Trinajstic, Nenad; Juric, Albin; Mihalic, Zlatko.

A structure-property study of the solubility of aliphatic alcohols in water. // Croatica chemica acta. 68 (1995) 417-434


 Juretic, Davor; Lucic, Bono; Trinajstic, Nenad.

Secondary structure prediction quality for naturally occurring amino acids in soluble proteins. // Journal of molecular structure - teochem. 338 (1995) 43-50 (structural bioinformatics)