RRC ID 70318
著者 Ganzen L, Ko MJ, Zhang M, Xie R, Chen Y, Zhang L, James R, Mumm J, van Rijn RM, Zhong W, Pang CP, Zhang M, Tsujikawa M, Leung YF.
タイトル Drug screening with zebrafish visual behavior identifies carvedilol as a potential treatment for an autosomal dominant form of retinitis pigmentosa.
ジャーナル Sci Rep
Abstract Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) is a mostly incurable inherited retinal degeneration affecting approximately 1 in 4000 individuals globally. The goal of this work was to identify drugs that can help patients suffering from the disease. To accomplish this, we screened drugs on a zebrafish autosomal dominant RP model. This model expresses a truncated human rhodopsin transgene (Q344X) causing significant rod degeneration by 7 days post-fertilization (dpf). Consequently, the larvae displayed a deficit in visual motor response (VMR) under scotopic condition. The diminished VMR was leveraged to screen an ENZO SCREEN-WELL REDOX library since oxidative stress is postulated to play a role in RP progression. Our screening identified a beta-blocker, carvedilol, that ameliorated the deficient VMR of the RP larvae and increased their rod number. Carvedilol may directly on rods as it affected the adrenergic pathway in the photoreceptor-like human Y79 cell line. Since carvedilol is an FDA-approved drug, our findings suggest that carvedilol can potentially be repurposed to treat autosomal dominant RP patients.
巻・号 11(1)
ページ 11432
公開日 2021-6-1
DOI 10.1038/s41598-021-89482-z
PII 10.1038/s41598-021-89482-z
PMID 34075074
PMC PMC8169685
MeSH Animals Animals, Genetically Modified* / genetics Animals, Genetically Modified* / metabolism Behavior, Animal / drug effects* Cell Line Drug Evaluation, Preclinical Genetic Diseases, Inborn* / drug therapy Genetic Diseases, Inborn* / genetics Genetic Diseases, Inborn* / metabolism Humans Mutation Retinal Rod Photoreceptor Cells Retinitis Pigmentosa* / drug therapy Retinitis Pigmentosa* / genetics Retinitis Pigmentosa* / metabolism Rhodopsin* / genetics Rhodopsin* / metabolism Transgenes Vision, Ocular* / drug effects Vision, Ocular* / immunology Zebrafish* / genetics Zebrafish* / metabolism
IF 3.998
リソース情報
ゼブラフィッシュ Tg(zfRh1-3.7B:EGFP)kj2