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
项目摘要
神经精神疾病的药物发现管道是干燥的。振兴这些管道的一种方法是
将是建立基于原代神经元中相关疾病表型的检测方法,
目前缺乏。 然而,基于真正神经元的可扩展的测定开发平台,
仍然具有成本效益,并且可以支持工业级HTS目前还不存在。 过去五
多年来,我们的合作小组已经创建了一个灵活和可扩展的原代神经元测定开发系统,
与工业级高温超导体兼容。我们的目标是优化这些程序和工作流程
以确定基于神经元的HTS表型测定的可扩展性的极限,
支持> 200 K化合物的大规模生产。
很大一部分儿童期脑疾病是由单一的常染色体显性变异引起的
导致遗传单倍不足。由这些变异引起的罕见遗传性大脑疾病提供了
最大的潜力,发现强大的治疗方法,因为疾病的机制往往是直接的
(i.e.低蛋白表达)。因此,改善这些患者状况的基本策略是
用“神奇子弹”化合物治疗它们,
未受损的等位基因(例如“加强化合物”)。 引起SYNGAP 1的新生无义变体
单倍性不足导致一种遗传学上定义的智力残疾形式,包括自闭症和癫痫(MRD 5;
OMIM#603384),可以解释高达1- 102%的所有ID病例。 这种疾病的公认原因是低
神经元中的功能性蛋白质表达最常由截短SYNGAP 1无义变体引起。作为
为了完善基于神经元的HTS系统,并推进ASD相关疾病的治疗,我们
正在寻求扩大规模,并实施一种与SynGAP表达相容的测定法,
工业级机器人。在第一个目标中,我们将优化一个HTS-100兼容和疾病相关的SynGAP
表达测定 该测定基于小鼠原代神经元,其中tdTomato荧光反映了
稳态内源性SynGAP蛋白水平。 在第二个目标中,我们将对SynGAP进行验证
表达测定至1536-微孔板格式。这种小型化过程将使一个高温超导体的规模屏幕,
这种或任何其他相关的基于神经元的表型分析,使用标准的
筛选预算最后,我们将在真正的uHTS环境中实施SynGAP表达测定,
然后验证从20 K化合物中试筛选中出现的先导化合物,包括10 K化合物
重新利用已知的“对人体安全”的化合物。 我们预计这个项目的影响
开发程序,使神经元中HTS运动的规模增加10倍或更多,
学术筛选中心的最新技术水平。我们还希望验证至少一种先导化合物
它能促进SynGAP的表达,希望是来自于再利用库。
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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