Functional mechanisms and therapeutic potential of EAG channel regulators

EAG通道调节剂的功能机制和治疗潜力

基本信息

批准号：
10393686
负责人：
Tinatin I Brelidze
金额：
$ 51.55万
依托单位：
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2021-04-15 至 2026-03-31
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10393686
关键词：
Adverse effects Affect Antibodies Apoptosis Binding Binding Sites Brain C-terminal Cancer cell line Cellular biology Chemicals Computer Simulation Computing Methodologies Crystallization Cyclic Nucleotides Defect Development Disease Drug Targeting Electrodes Electrophysiology (science)Embryo Ethers FDA approved Geometry Goals Growth Human Implant Individual Knock-out Laboratories Learning Ligand Binding Ligands Link Malignant Neoplasms Maps Methods Molecular Molecular Mechanisms of Action Monitor Mus Mutation N-terminal Neoplasm Metastasis Neurons Patch-Clamp Techniques Patients Pharmaceutical Preparations Physiological Potassium Regulation Reporting Roentgen Rays Site Small Interfering RNA Small Molecule Chemical Library Structure Subcellular structure Surface Plasmon Resonance Techniques Technology Testing Therapeutic X-Ray Crystallography Xenograft Model Xenograft procedure Zebrafish cancer therapy clinically relevant cytotoxicity drug development experience experimental study inhibitor innovation malignant neurologic neoplasms migration neoplastic cell nervous system disorder neuronal excitability neuronal tumor novel overexpression small molecule therapeutic evaluation tissue culture tumor tumor growth tumor progression tumorigenesis voltage clamp

项目摘要

Ether-a-go-go (EAG) potassium selective channels are important regulators of neuronal excitability and cancer progression. Defects in EAG channel function are associated with neurological disorders and cancer. Despite the physiological importance of EAG channels, molecular mechanisms of EAG channel regulation by intracellular ligands and clinically relevant EAG channel regulators are not known. The goal of this proposal is to uncover molecular mechanisms of EAG channel regulation by intracellular ligands recently discovered by our laboratory and to determine a therapeutic potential of these ligands for treatment of diseases linked to EAG channels. In Specific Aim 1 we plan to solve X-ray structures of the intracellular Per-Arnt-Sim (PAS) and cyclic nucleotide- binding homology (CNBH) domains of EAG channels bound to the recently identified ligands and conduct computational simulations of the ligand binding to the PAS and CNBH domains to uncover the structural basis of EAG channel regulation by the intracellular ligands. The structural findings will be then used as a road map to guide functional experiments on the molecular mechanisms of EAG channel regulation by the ligands. In Specific Aim 2 we plan to use surface plasmon resonance method to identify novel EAG channel ligands that affect channel function through PAS and CNBH domain interface. We will then use electrophysiology to determine functional implications of strengthening or weakening of the PAS/CNBH domain interface by the identified regulators on the function of EAG channels. In Specific Aim 3 we plan to use tissue culture and zebrafish xenograft models to test therapeutic potential of the identified regulators for treatment of cancer. The results of these studies will be crucial for understanding fundamental regulatory mechanisms of EAG and related ERG and ELK channels, and for attaining therapeutic potential of EAG channel regulators.

Ether-A-Go-Go（EAG）钾选择性通道是神经元的重要调节剂兴奋性和癌症进展。 EAG通道功能中的缺陷是关联的神经系统疾病和癌症。尽管EAG的生理重要性通道，EAG通道调节的分子机制，由细胞内配体和临床上相关的EAG通道调节剂尚不清楚。该提议的目的是通过细胞内配体发现EAG通道调节的分子机制最近是由我们的实验室发现的，并确定了这些的治疗潜力治疗与EAG通道有关的疾病的配体。在特定目标1中，我们计划求解细胞内每种SIM（PA）和环状核苷酸的X射线结构 EAG通道的结合同源性（CNBH）结构域结合到最近鉴定配体并进行配体与PAS结合的计算模拟，并进行 CNBH结构域可揭示EAG通道调节的结构基础细胞内配体。然后，结构发现将用作指导路线图对EAG通道调节的分子机制的功能实验配体。在特定目标2中，我们计划使用表面等离子体共振方法来识别通过PA和CNBH结构域影响通道功能的新型EAG通道配体界面。然后，我们将使用电生理学来确定通过确定的 EAG通道功能的调节器。在特定目标3中，我们计划使用组织培养和斑马鱼异种移植模型测试已鉴定的治疗潜力治疗癌症的调节剂。这些研究的结果对于了解EAG和相关ERG和ELK的基本监管机制通道，并获得EAG通道调节剂的治疗潜力。