論文

国際誌
2020年10月

Novel Compounds Identified by Structure-Based Prion Disease Drug Discovery Using In Silico Screening Delay the Progression of an Illness in Prion-Infected Mice.

Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics
  • Daisuke Ishibashi
  • ,
  • Takeshi Ishikawa
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  • Satoshi Mizuta
  • ,
  • Hiroya Tange
  • ,
  • Takehiro Nakagaki
  • ,
  • Tsuyoshi Hamada
  • ,
  • Noriyuki Nishida

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開始ページ
1836
終了ページ
1849
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1007/s13311-020-00903-9

The accumulation of abnormal prion protein (PrPSc) produced by the structure conversion of PrP (PrPC) in the brain induces prion disease. Although the conversion process of the protein is still not fully elucidated, it has been known that the intramolecular chemical bridging in the most fragile pocket of PrP, known as the "hot spot," stabilizes the structure of PrPC and inhibits the conversion process. Using our original structure-based drug discovery algorithm, we identified the low molecular weight compounds that predicted binding to the hot spot. NPR-130 and NPR-162 strongly bound to recombinant PrP in vitro, and fragment molecular orbital (FMO) analysis indicated that the high affinity of those candidates to the PrP is largely dependent on nonpolar interactions, such as van der Waals interactions. Those NPRs showed not only significant reduction of the PrPSc levels but also remarkable decrease of the number of aggresomes in persistently prion-infected cells. Intriguingly, treatment with those candidate compounds significantly prolonged the survival period of prion-infected mice and suppressed prion disease-specific pathological damage, such as vacuole degeneration, PrPSc accumulation, microgliosis, and astrogliosis in the brain, suggesting their possible clinical use. Our results indicate that in silico drug discovery using NUDE/DEGIMA may be widely useful to identify candidate compounds that effectively stabilize the protein.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13311-020-00903-9
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32767031
PubMed Central
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7851219
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1007/s13311-020-00903-9
  • PubMed ID : 32767031
  • PubMed Central 記事ID : PMC7851219

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