A Scalable Neuron-Based High-Throughput Screening Platform for the Discovery of Compounds that Restore Protein Expression Caused by Genetic Haploinsufficiency
A Scalable Neuron-Based High-Throughput Screening Platform for the Discovery of Compounds that Restore Protein Expression Caused by Genetic Haploinsufficiency
批准号:
9370360
负责人:
GAVIN R RUMBAUGH
金额:
$68.73万
依托单位:
依托单位国家:
美国
项目类别:
财政年份:
2017
资助国家:
美国
项目状态:
已结题
起止时间:
2017-07-01 至 2020-03-31
关键词:
AcademiaAllelesAutistic DisorderBiologicalBiological AssayBrainBrain DiseasesBudgetsChemicalsChildhoodClinicalDevelopmentDiseaseEnvironmentEpilepsyEvaluationFluorescenceGene TargetingGeneticGoalsHandHumanIndustrializationIntellectual functioning disabilityKnock-in MouseLeadLibrariesMagicMindMiniaturizationModelingMolecularMusNatureNeuronsOnline Mendelian Inheritance In ManPatientsPharmaceutical PreparationsPhenotypePlant RootsProceduresProcessProteinsReporterReportingReproducibilityResearchRoboticsSeriesSystemSystems DevelopmentTestingTherapeuticVariantWorkassay developmentbasecost effectivedesigndisease phenotypedrug discoveryexperimental studyflexibilityhigh throughput screeningimprovedminiaturizeneuropsychiatric disordernovelprotein expressionscale upscreening
中文摘要
项目总结:
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治疗神经精神障碍的药物发现和管道是非常枯竭的。一种可能的方法是让这些管道恢复活力。
我们将无法根据初级神经细胞中的相关疾病和表型来创建新的分析方法,这是不可能的。
目前还缺乏。然而,一个高度可扩展的测试和开发平台,它是基于真正的神经元,。
在过去的五年里,HTS仍然是经济高效的,它可以很好地支持HTS目前不存在的工业成本水平。
多年来,我们的合作小组已经创建了一个非常灵活的系统和一个可扩展的初级神经元细胞分析和开发系统。
这与工业级的HTS非常兼容。在这里,我们的主要目标是进一步优化这些新程序和新的工作流程。
为了更好地确定基于神经元的HTS的可扩展性极限,需要进行表型分析,以便它们可以很容易地检测出来。
支持非常大规模的广告宣传活动,包括200,000个化合物。
相当大比例的儿童脑功能障碍是由一种单一的常染色体显性遗传变异引起的。
从而导致遗传和单倍体不足。这是一种罕见的遗传性和脑部疾病,这种疾病是由这些基因变异提供的。
发现一种强大的治疗方法的潜力最大,因为这种疾病的治疗机制通常是直截了当的。
(即低蛋白质和低表达)。因此,我们提出了一个新的战略基础,以进一步改善这些患者的病情,因为这是不可能的。
用一种神奇的化合物来治疗它们,这种化合物可以从剩余的蛋白质中提高功能蛋白质的表达水平。
未损坏的等位基因基因(如“促进基因化合物”)。可能导致SYNGAP1的变异体的无稽之谈。
单倍体功能不全可能导致患有自闭症和癫痫的遗传性智力障碍患者(MRD5;;)。
OMIM#603384)表示,他们可能无法解释高达1%-2%的ID障碍病例。但他们认为这一障碍的原因很低。
神经元中功能性基因蛋白的表达下降,最常见的原因是截断SYNGAP1基因的无稽之谈和变体。
这意味着我们将进一步完善基于神经元的HTS智能系统,并进一步推进ASD相关智能障碍的治疗方案。
他们正在寻求扩大规模的方法,并将实施一种新的SynGAP表达模式的测试方法,该方法与标准兼容。
工业级机器人技术。为了实现第一个目标,我们将进一步优化与HTS兼容的应用程序和与疾病相关的应用程序SynGAP。
表达和检测。这项检测是基于小鼠的初级神经细胞,而番茄的荧光检测反映了这一点。
稳定的内源性SynGAP和蛋白质水平。为了实现第二个目标,我们将继续将SynGAP微型化。
Expression测试需要支持最新的1536-Well格式。这一微型化的过程将使我们能够实现HTS-?规模的屏幕测试。
这项或任何其他相关的基于神经元的表型分析,包括多达40万个水井培养,并使用一个新的标准。
筛选和预算。最后,我们将继续实施新的SynGAP和表达分析测试,以建立一个真正的超高温超导环境。
然后验证和引导从飞行员屏幕上出现的20K化合物,包括10K化合物。
将已知的“对人体安全”化合物的屏幕重新调整用途。这一新项目的实际影响可能会超出我们的预期。
制定新的程序,使HTS运动在神经元中的总规模增加约10倍或更多,以实现这一目标。
目前在学术研究和筛查中心是最先进的。我们还预计政府将至少验证一种化合物。
这将促进SynGAP的表达,希望能从重新调整其用途的库中恢复过来。
英文摘要
PROJECT SUMMARY
Drug discovery pipelines for neuropsychiatric disorders are dry. One approach to rejuvenating these pipelines
would be to create assays based on relevant disease phenotypes in primary neurons, something that is
currently lacking. However, a scalable assay development platform that is based on bona fide neurons,
remains cost effective, and that can support industrial level HTS does not currently exist. Over the past five
years, our collaborative group has created a flexible and scalable primary neuron assay development system
that is compatible with industrial-level HTS. Here, our goal is to optimize these procedures and workflows
to determine the limit of scalability of neuron-based HTS phenotypic assays so that they can easily
support very large campaigns of >200K compounds.
A substantial proportion of childhood brain disorders are caused by single autosomal dominant variants
resulting in genetic haploinsufficiency. The rare genetic brain disorders that arise from these variants offer the
greatest potential for discovery of robust therapeutics because the disease mechanism is often straight forward
(i.e. low protein expression). Therefore, a rationale strategy to improve conditions in these patients would be to
treat them with “magic bullet” compounds that raise expression of functional proteins from the remaining
undamaged allele (e.g. “boosting compounds”). De novo nonsense variants that cause SYNGAP1
haploinsufficiency lead to a genetically-defined form of intellectual disability with autism and epilepsy (MRD5;;
OMIM#603384) that may explain up to 1-2% of all ID cases. The accepted cause of this disorder is low
functional protein expression in neurons caused most often by truncating SYNGAP1 nonsense variants. As a
means to refine the neuron-based HTS system, and to advance treatment for ASD-related disorders, we
are seeking to scale-up and implement an assay for SynGAP expression that is compatible with
industrial-level robotics. In the first Aim, we will optimize an HTS-compatible and disease-relevant SynGAP
expression assay. This assay is based on mouse primary neurons where tdTomato fluorescence reflects
steady-state endogenous SynGAP protein levels. In the second aim, we will miniaturize the SynGAP
expression assay to the 1536-well format. This miniaturization process would enable an HTS-scale screen of
this, or any other related neuron-based phenotypic assay, of up to 400,000 culture wells using a standard
screening budget. Finally, we will implement the SynGAP expression assay in a true uHTS environment and
then validate lead compounds that emerge from a 20K compound pilot screen, including a 10K compound
repurposing screen of known “safe in human” compounds. The impact of this project that we expect to
develop procedures that will increase the scale of HTS campaigns in neurons by 10-fold or more relative to the
current state-of-the-art in academic screening centers. We also expect to validate at least one lead compound
that boosts SynGAP expression, hopefully from the repurposing library.
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