Curaxins: Lead Drugs and Target Discovery in the African Trypanosome

Curaxins：非洲锥虫的先导药物和靶点发现

• 批准号: 8416320
• 负责人: KOJO A. MENSA-WILMOT
• 金额: $ 18.56万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-02-01 至 2015-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8416320
• 关键词: Acute; Adsorption; Affinity; Affinity Chromatography; African; African Trypanosomiasis; Binding Proteins; Bioavailable; Biochemical; Bioinformatics; Blood; Blood Circulation; Buffaloes; Cells; Chemicals; Chronic; Chronic Disease; Development; Disease; Drug Design; Drug Kinetics; Drug Targeting; Escherichia coli; Excretory function; Future; Gel; Human; Lead; Ligands; Mass Spectrum Analysis; Metabolism; Modeling; Mus; Neuraxis; Oral Administration; Peptides; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Phase; Plasma; Protein Binding; Proteins; Recombinant Proteins; Series; Shotguns; Slice; Staging; Testing; Trypanosoma; Trypanosoma brucei brucei; Validation; enzyme activity; genotoxicity; killings; mouse model; novel; polypeptide; scaffold

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Buffalo BioLabs INC has synthesized a series of novel anti-trypanosome compounds with nanomolar activity against whole cells. After oral administration to mice, the Curaxin drugs reach tens of micromolar concentration in mouse blood, exceeding by 300-fold the amount needed to kill all bloodstream Trypanosoma brucei in culture. Thus the potential for these novel drugs to cure T. brucei-infected mice is immense. Therefore, we will test the ability of three lead Curaxins to cure T. brucei-infected mice, using models of both acute form and chronic stage human African trypanosomiasis (HAT). Proteins that bind Curaxins in the African trypanosome have not been identified. To further our understanding of how Curaxins kill T. brucei, and to prepare the stage for further optimization of the Curaxin scaffold by ligand-assisted drug design, we will concentrate Curaxin- binding proteins by affinity chromatography and identify them by discovery mass-spectrometry. Finally, the biologically relevant target(s) of Curaxin will be identified by determining the effect of the drug on biochemical activities of the Curaxin-binding proteins from the trypanosome.

描述（由申请人提供）：布法罗生物实验室公司合成了一系列新型抗锥虫化合物，对全细胞具有纳摩尔活性。口服给药后，Curaxin药物在小鼠血液中达到数十微摩尔浓度，超过杀死培养物中所有血流布氏锥虫所需量的300倍。因此，这些新的药物治疗T。感染布鲁氏菌的老鼠数量巨大。因此，我们将测试三种铅Curaxins治疗T的能力。布鲁氏菌感染的小鼠，使用急性形式和慢性阶段人类非洲锥虫病（HAT）的模型。在非洲锥虫中结合Curaxins的蛋白质尚未鉴定。为了进一步了解Curaxins如何杀死T。布氏杆菌，并准备通过配体辅助药物设计的进一步优化的Curaxin支架的阶段，我们将集中Curaxin结合蛋白的亲和层析和鉴定它们的发现质谱。最后，将通过确定药物对锥虫的Curaxin结合蛋白的生物化学活性的影响来鉴定Curaxin的生物学相关靶标。