microRNA regulation of NMNAT-mediated Neuroprotection against Peripheral Neuropathy and Chronic Pain

NMNAT 介导的针对周围神经病变和慢性疼痛的神经保护的 microRNA 调节

• 批准号: 10879437
• 负责人: Rong Grace Zhai
• 金额: $ 6.19万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-08-16 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10879437
• 关键词: Affect; Afferent Neurons; Award; Behavioral; Cancer Patient; Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy; Clinical Trials; Computers; Cultured Cells; Data Science; Development; Doctor of Philosophy; Dose Limiting; Drosophila genus; Drosophila inturned protein; Environment; Enzymes; Essential Genes; Family; Functional disorder; Genetic; Genetic Transcription; Glutamate-ammonia-ligase adenylyltransferase; Goals; Graduate Degree; Grant; Health; Homeostasis; Hypersensitivity; Larva; Maintenance; Mammals; Mediating; Metabolism; MicroRNAs; Modeling; Molecular; Natural Compound; Neurons; Neuropathy; Nicotinamide Mononucleotide; Nociception; Paclitaxel; Pain; Parents; Pathway interactions; Peripheral Nervous System Diseases; Pharmacology; Phase; Physiological; Population; Protein Isoforms; Proteins; Puerto Rico; RNA Splicing; Regulation; Research; Research Project Grants; Resort; Role; Sensory; Symptoms; Talents; Testing; Therapeutic; Therapeutic Agents; Training; Transcriptional Regulation; Variant; Work; arm; candidate identification; candidate selection; career development; chemotherapy; chronic pain; design; effective therapy; efficacy evaluation; experience; experimental study; gain of function; graduate student; in vivo; in vivo Model; innovation; innovative technologies; loss of function mutation; mRNA Expression; mRNA Precursor; mRNA Stability; neural; neuroprotection; neurotoxic; novel; novel therapeutics; opioid use; pain model; painful neuropathy; parent project; programs; proteostasis; recreational drug use; recruit; resilience; response; screening; side effect; success; therapeutic miRNA; tool

PROJECT SUMMARY Peripheral neuropathy and neuropathy pain can be caused by a myriad of genetic and environment factors as well as therapeutic or recreational drug use. In particular, chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) is the major dose-limiting neurotoxic side effect of standard chemotherapy regiments. Over 68% of cancer patients experience neuropathic symptoms after chemotherapy, and that contributes to a significant percent of the population that suffer from chronic pain and have to resort to opioid use. Currently there are no effective treatments available, largely due to a lack of understanding of the in vivo mechanisms of CIPN and related peripheral neuropathy. Recently, we have optimized a model of peripheral neuropathy using Drosophila larvae that recapitulates salient behavioral, physiological, and cellular aspects of chemotherapy- induced sensory dysfunction. Our preliminary work using this model has uncovered a new mechanism underlying peripheral neuropathy and identified a neuroprotective protein NMNAT with promising potential for mitigating neuropathic pain. The ultimate goal of our research is to uncover the endogenous mechanisms underlying peripheral neuropathy and to identify neuroprotective mechanisms and potential targets that facilitate the development of new therapeutic agents against CIPN and related neuropathic pain. Extensive mechanistic studies from our lab and others have found NMNAT proteins in Drosophila and mammals to be among the most robust and versatile neuroprotective factors, and a positive correlation between NMNAT expression levels and the neuronal self-protective capacity. Excitingly, from a compound screen, several natural compounds were identified to upregulate NMNAT transcription, and we have collected intriguing preliminary results suggesting that the expression of NMNAT is regulated by microRNAs. We hypothesize that regulation of NMNAT RNA expression by natural compounds and microRNAs at the steps of transcription, pre- mRNA splicing, and mRNA stability allows rapid and dynamic shifting between NMNAT mediated NAD+ metabolism and neuronal resilience and confers protection in sensory neurons against peripheral neuropathy. In this application we outline experiments to (1) identify microRNAs that regulate nociceptive hypersensitivity, (2) identify and characterize the molecular pharmacology of natural compounds in regulating NMNAT expression, and (3) modulate NMNAT transcriptional regulation to enhance neuroprotection against peripheral neuropathy. The objectives for the supplement application are to expand our testing portfolio to include 12 microRNAs and 24 natural compounds. With the recruitment of a full graduate student effort, we will be able to expand our candidate screening portfolio by > 80% and will significantly increase the likelihood of success in identifying candidates with high neuroprotective potential. In addition to the scientific goals, this diversity supplement will also support the PhD training in novel natural compound discovery for pain and fulfill the career development goals of Ms. Natalie Ortiz Vega in the field of natural compound pharmacology.

项目总结

项目成果

MicroRNA-Mediated Obstruction of Stem-loop Alternative Splicing (MIMOSAS): a global mechanism for the regulation of alternative splicing.

MicroRNA 介导的干环选择性剪接阻碍 (MIMOSAS)：一种调节选择性剪接的全球机制。

• DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2977025/v1
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Research square
• 作者: Zhai,Rong;Ruan,Kai;Perez,GermanFarinas;Kubat,Miroslav;Liu,Jiaqi;Hofacker,Ivo;Wuchty,Stefan
• 通讯作者: Wuchty,Stefan