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Identification of Novel Small Molecules as Tau Protein Aggregation Inhibitors for

鉴定新型小分子作为 Tau 蛋白聚集抑制剂

基本信息

批准号：
8124537
负责人：
ALAN D. SNOW
金额：
$ 77.07万
依托单位：
PROTEOTECH, INC.
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2011
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2011-06-15 至 2012-05-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8124537
关键词：
Affect Alzheimer&apos s Disease Amyloid Amyloid beta-Protein Amyloidosis Animal Model Anthracyclines Aromatic Compounds Biochemical Biological Biological Assay Brain Catechols Cell Culture Techniques Cell Extracts Cell Line Cell model Cells Characteristics Chemicals Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy Dementia Deposition Development Diagnosis Disease Drug Kinetics Elderly Electron Microscopy Filament Fluorometry Future Heparin Image Analysis In Vitro Interphase Lead Legal patent Libraries Microtubules Negative Staining Neurodegenerative Disorders Neurofibrillary Tangles Parkinson Disease Patients Penetration Peptides Pharmaceutical Preparations Phase Phenothiazines Porphyrins Proteins Publishing Quinoxalines Screening procedure Senile Plaques Small Business Innovation Research Grant Spectrum Analysis Staining method Stains System Tauopathies Techniques Technology Testing Therapeutic Agents Thioflavin S Thioflavin T Transgenic Animals Western Blotting base biological systems cytotoxicity design drug candidate drug discovery fibrillogenesis in vitro Assay inhibitor/antagonist innovation islet amyloid polypeptide monomer mouse model neurofibrillary tangle formation novel novel therapeutics polyphenol protein aggregation small molecule tau Proteins tau aggregation therapeutic target

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by brain amyloid plaques consisting of insoluble beta-amyloid (A2) and tau protein containing neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs). AD drug discovery strategies have been largely focused on reducing brain A2 levels, with substantially less emphasis on tau-directed approaches. In the past decade, ProteoTech Inc has developed a number of different in vitro screening technologies and cellular models that identified new and potent inhibitors of amyloidosis. The techniques led us to design and synthesize a class of [new chemical entities consisting of small molecules (200-400 MW) containing bis-catechols,] some of them found to be potent inhibitors of protein/peptide aggregates that are of central importance for AD, Parkinson disease and systemic AA amyloidosis. Preliminary results for this Phase I project demonstrated that some of our new chemical entities have abilities to disrupt/inhibit tau protein fibril formation in vitro and in relevant innovative cell-based assays. [We hypothesize that certain small compounds in our unique small molecule new chemical entity library can serve as direct inhibitors of tau aggregation/fibrillogenesis, and may have great potential as new therapeutic agents for AD and other tauopathies.] The major objective our proposal is to identify specific small molecule compounds from ProteoTech's unique library for their ability to inhibit/disrupt tau aggregation/fibrillogenesis using both in vitro and cell-based assays. In [Specific Aim 1 we will screen a group of ~50 small molecule compounds (all representing new chemical entities) developed at ProteoTech (small molecules containing polyhydroxylated aromatic compounds) for their ability to inhibit tau protein fibril formation and to disrupt pre-formed tau fibrils using in vitro assays including Thioflavin T fluorometry, SDS-PAGE/western blot analysis and quantitation, CD spectroscopy, and electron microscopy.] In Specific Aim 2 we will utilize cell lines that inducibly express tau repeat domains (TauRD) to screen/validate our lead compounds identified in aim 1 for their ability to affect intracellular tau multimerization/ aggregation using Western analysis for soluble/insoluble TauRD aggregates, and Thioflavin S staining and electron microscopy for TauRD aggregates/fibrils. We will also test whether these compounds can rescue TauRD-induced microtubule network disruption and cytotoxicity as determined by immunostaining and quantitative image analysis. The most active compounds identified in this project will lead to a future Phase II SBIR project for optimizing these key lead compounds for drugability, brain penetration, pharmacokinetics and non-toxicity, and for testing their efficacy in relevant transgenic animal models that mimic many of the hallmarks of tau protein aggregation as observed in NFTs in AD and related tauopathies. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This Phase I SBIR project will lead to the development of novel small molecule drugs for the treatment of tau protein aggregation found in the neurofibrillary tangles of Alzheimer disease. Neurofibrillary tangle formation is one of the pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease, the leading cause of dementia in the elderly.

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