RRC ID 51871
著者 Imamura T, Fujita K, Tagawa K, Ikura T, Chen X, Homma H, Tamura T, Mao Y, Taniguchi JB, Motoki K, Nakabayashi M, Ito N, Yamada K, Tomii K, Okano H, Kaye J, Finkbeiner S, Okazawa H.
タイトル Identification of hepta-histidine as a candidate drug for Huntington's disease by in silico-in vitro- in vivo-integrated screens of chemical libraries.
ジャーナル Sci Rep
Abstract We identified drug seeds for treating Huntington's disease (HD) by combining in vitro single molecule fluorescence spectroscopy, in silico molecular docking simulations, and in vivo fly and mouse HD models to screen for inhibitors of abnormal interactions between mutant Htt and physiological Ku70, an essential DNA damage repair protein in neurons whose function is known to be impaired by mutant Htt. From 19,468 and 3,010,321 chemicals in actual and virtual libraries, fifty-six chemicals were selected from combined in vitro-in silico screens; six of these were further confirmed to have an in vivo effect on lifespan in a fly HD model, and two chemicals exerted an in vivo effect on the lifespan, body weight and motor function in a mouse HD model. Two oligopeptides, hepta-histidine (7H) and Angiotensin III, rescued the morphological abnormalities of primary neurons differentiated from iPS cells of human HD patients. For these selected drug seeds, we proposed a possible common structure. Unexpectedly, the selected chemicals enhanced rather than inhibited Htt aggregation, as indicated by dynamic light scattering analysis. Taken together, these integrated screens revealed a new pathway for the molecular targeted therapy of HD.
巻・号 6
ページ 33861
公開日 2016-9-22
DOI 10.1038/srep33861
PII srep33861
PMID 27653664
PMC PMC5032119
IF 3.998
リソース情報
ヒト・動物細胞 201B7(HPS0063)