Targeting Oncogenic KRAS with Brush-Architectured Poly(ethylene glycol)-DNA Conjugates

使用刷状结构的聚（乙二醇）-DNA 缀合物靶向致癌 KRAS

基本信息

批准号：
10430047
负责人：
Ke Zhang
金额：
$ 36.72万
依托单位：
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2020-07-06 至 2025-06-30
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10430047
关键词：
Address Animal Cancer Model Animal Model Antisense Oligonucleotides Architecture Area Under Curve Automobile Driving Binding Biodistribution Biological Products Blood Coagulation Disorders Cancer Model Cancer cell line Cell Proliferation Cells Cellular biology Characteristics Chemicals Chemistry Clinic Clinical Clinical Research Colorectal Cancer DNA Data Deoxyribonucleases Development Drug Kinetics Effectiveness Exhibits Gene Expression Regulation Genes Genetically Engineered Mouse Goals Half-Life Human Immune system Immunization Inflammation Intracellular Transport Intravenous Investigation Kidney Liver Lung Adenocarcinoma MEKs Malignant Neoplasms Malignant neoplasm of lung Malignant neoplasm of pancreas Mediating Messenger RNA Methods Modality Modeling Mus Mutate Mutation Non-Small-Cell Lung Carcinoma Nucleic Acids Oligonucleotides Oncogenes Oncogenic Oncoproteins Outcome Patients Pharmaceutical Preparations Pharmacologic Substance Pharmacology Plasma Polyethylene Glycols Polymers Pre-Clinical Model Property Proteins RAS Family Gene Rattus Refractory Research Ribonuclease H Safety Side Signal Pathway Signal Transduction Structure Therapeutic Agents Therapeutic Intervention Toll-like receptors Toxic effect Translating Translations Tumor Suppression Tumor-Derived Validation Viral Oncogene Work Xenograft Model Xenograft procedure acute toxicity alternative treatment biological systems cancer cell dosage ethylene glycol improved in vivo inhibitor insight knock-down lung cancer cell mouse model mutant nanoparticle neoplastic cell novel nucleic acid-based therapeutics patient derived xenograft model pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics pre-clinical prevent sarcoma side effect single molecule small molecule small molecule inhibitor stem subcutaneous therapeutic DNA three dimensional cell culture three-dimensional modeling trafficking treatment strategy tumor tumor microenvironment uptake

项目摘要

Project Summary/Abstract Mutant forms of KRAS are a key driver in human tumors but remains refractory to therapeutic intervention despite over three decades of research. Clinical attempts to directly or indirectly inhibit KRAS function have both yielded unsatisfactory results. The difficulty for developing small molecule KRAS inhibitors has heightened the importance of alternative methods targeting the oncogene. One such strategy involves therapeutic nucleic acids, which make it possible to deplete target proteins that are intractable to conventional drug modalities. We have developed a novel form of nucleic acid therapeutics, termed pacDNA, that substantially enhances the antitumor activity of nucleic acid drugs by elevating in vivo stability, accelerating cellular uptake, and improving plasma pharmacokinetics and tumor accumulation, allowing a much lower dosage to be used compared to conventional methods. The pacDNA also suppresses nearly all side effects associated with traditional nucleic acid drugs by reducing unwanted nucleic acid-protein interactions. In this proposal, we aim to build upon our promising preliminary results, and gain deeper insights into the cell biology of the pacDNA with respect to cell uptake mechanism, intracellular trafficking, KRAS depletion and subsequent cell signaling, and demonstrate efficacy in KRAS-dependent non-small cell lung cancer cell lines and 3D models. In addition, we will study the primary pharmacology and antitumor activity of pacDNA in advanced preclinical lung cancer models including an orthotopic tumor model, a patient derived tumor model, and a syngeneic genetically engineered mouse model (GEMM), and perform initial in vivo safety and tolerability studies. The outcome of this project will be a safe and potent anti-KRAS agent that can be readily translated into clinical studies for non-small cell lung cancer and potentially additional cancer classes.

项目摘要/摘要 KRAS的突变形式是人类肿瘤的关键驱动力尽管进行了三十年的研究。直接或间接抑制KRAS功能的临床尝试具有两者都产生了不令人满意的结果。开发小分子KRAS抑制剂的困难已增强针对癌基因的替代方法的重要性。一种这样的策略涉及治疗核酸，这使得耗尽针对常规药物形态的靶蛋白。我们已经开发了一种新型的核酸治疗剂，称为pacDNA，这大大增强了通过升高体内稳定性，加速细胞摄取并改善核酸药物的抗肿瘤活性血浆药代动力学和肿瘤的积累，与相比的剂量要低得多常规方法。 pACDNA还抑制了几乎所有与传统核糖相关的副作用通过减少不必要的核酸蛋白相互作用来通过酸药。在此提案中，我们旨在建立我们的有希望的初步结果，并获得对PACDNA细胞生物学相对于细胞的细胞生物学的更深入的见解吸收机制，细胞内运输，KRAS耗竭和随后的细胞信号传导，并证明 KRAS依赖性非小细胞肺癌细胞系和3D模型的功效。此外，我们将研究晚期临床前肺癌模型中PACDNA的一级药理学和抗肿瘤活性，包括原位肿瘤模型，一种患者衍生的肿瘤模型和合成基因工程小鼠模型（GEMM），并执行初始的体内安全性和耐受性研究。该项目的结果将是可以轻松地转化为非小细胞肺的临床研究的安全和有效的抗KRAS剂癌症和潜在的其他癌症类别。