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Tropak MB, Tkachyova I, Gu R, Lee A, Schulze A. Evidence of an intracellular creatine-sensing mechanism that modulates creatine biosynthesis via AGAT expression in human HAP1 cells. Sci Rep 2023; 13:22392. [PMID: 38104212 PMCID: PMC10725494 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-49860-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2023] [Accepted: 12/12/2023] [Indexed: 12/19/2023] Open
Abstract
Cellular homeostasis of creatine (CT), integral part of the energy buffering and transducing system connecting intracellular sites of ATP production and utilization, comprises of mechanisms that increase CT, i.e., biosynthesis and cellular uptake, and CT-lowering processes, such as export and non-enzymatic conversion to creatinine. The biosynthesis of CT is controlled by negative feedback loop via suppression of the rate-limiting enzyme arginine:glycine amidinotransferase (AGAT). Although the regulatory mechanism involved is not well understood, AGAT suppression is successfully used in patients with guanidinoacetate methyltransferase (GAMT) deficiency to reduce the neurotoxic accumulation of the AGAT-mediated guanidinoacetate production by supplementing patients with CT. Utilizing the CT-dependent feedback loop for the upregulation of AGAT expression may well represent a therapeutic target for an additional CT deficiency syndrome, the CT transporter (CrT) defect, for which no effective treatment option is available so far. We have used CRISPR to tag the C-terminus of AGAT with a nanoluc luciferase (NLuc) reporter in HAP1 cells. A biphasic decay of AGAT-NLuc in response to increasing extracellular CT was observed, whereas the decrease in AGAT-NLuc expression was directly proportional to the rise in intracellular CT levels with an approximate IC50 of 1-2 mM. CRISPR generated HAP1 CrT null cells and HAP1 CrT null cells stably expressing a CrT-GFP fusion protein further demonstrated that the biphasic response to extracellular CT is mediated by a high-affinity (Km 9-10 µM) CrT dependent, saturable mechanism and a CrT independent, unsaturable uptake process. The direct response to intracellular CT suggests the existence of an intracellular CT sensing system enabling a dynamic cell response to changing CT concentration that is relevant for cellular CT homeostasis.
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Affiliation(s)
- Michael B Tropak
- Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
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- Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
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- Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada.
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
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Tropak MB, Zhang J, Yonekawa S, Rigat BA, Aulakh VS, Smith MR, Hwang HJ, Ciufolini MA, Mahuran DJ. Pyrimethamine Derivatives: Insight into Binding Mechanism and Improved Enhancement of Mutant β-N-acetylhexosaminidase Activity. J Med Chem 2015; 58:4483-93. [PMID: 25984755 DOI: 10.1021/jm5017895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
In order to identify structural features of pyrimethamine (5-(4-chlorophenyl)-6-ethylpyrimidine-2,4-diamine) that contribute to its inhibitory activity (IC50 value) and chaperoning efficacy toward β-N-acetylhexosaminidase, derivatives of the compound were synthesized that differ at the positions bearing the amino, ethyl, and chloro groups. Whereas the amino groups proved to be critical to its inhibitory activity, a variety of substitutions at the chloro position only increased its IC50 by 2-3-fold. Replacing the ethyl group at the 6-position with butyl or methyl groups increased IC50 more than 10-fold. Surprisingly, despite its higher IC50, a derivative lacking the chlorine atom in the para-position was found to enhance enzyme activity in live patient cells a further 25% at concentrations >100 μM, while showing less toxicity. These findings demonstrate the importance of the phenyl group in modulating the chaperoning efficacy and toxicity profile of the derivatives.
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- Michael B Tropak
- †Genetics and Genome Biology, SickKids, PGCRL 686 Bay Street, Toronto, Ontario M5G 0A4, Canada
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- ‡Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- †Genetics and Genome Biology, SickKids, PGCRL 686 Bay Street, Toronto, Ontario M5G 0A4, Canada
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- †Genetics and Genome Biology, SickKids, PGCRL 686 Bay Street, Toronto, Ontario M5G 0A4, Canada
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- ‡Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- ‡Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- ‡Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- ‡Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- †Genetics and Genome Biology, SickKids, PGCRL 686 Bay Street, Toronto, Ontario M5G 0A4, Canada.,§Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Toronto, Medical Science Building, 1 King's College Circle, 6th Floor, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada
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Siriwardena A, Sonawane DP, Bande OP, Markad PR, Yonekawa S, Tropak MB, Ghosh S, Chopade BA, Mahuran DJ, Dhavale DD. Synthesis of 1,5-Dideoxy-1,5-iminoribitol C-Glycosides through a Nitrone–Olefin Cycloaddition Domino Strategy: Identification of Pharmacological Chaperones of Mutant Human Lysosomal β-Galactosidase. J Org Chem 2014; 79:4398-404. [DOI: 10.1021/jo500328u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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- Aloysius Siriwardena
- Laboratoire
de Glycochimie, des Antimicrobiens et des Agroressources, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, FRE 3517 CNRS, Amiens 80039, France
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- Laboratoire
de Glycochimie, des Antimicrobiens et des Agroressources, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, FRE 3517 CNRS, Amiens 80039, France
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- Programme
in Genetics and Genome Biology, Sickkids, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada
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- Programme
in Genetics and Genome Biology, Sickkids, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada
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- Programme
in Genetics and Genome Biology, Sickkids, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada
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Rigat BA, Tropak MB, Buttner J, Crushell E, Benedict D, Callahan JW, Martin DR, Mahuran DJ. Evaluation of N-nonyl-deoxygalactonojirimycin as a pharmacological chaperone for human GM1 gangliosidosis leads to identification of a feline model suitable for testing enzyme enhancement therapy. Mol Genet Metab 2012; 107:203-12. [PMID: 22784478 PMCID: PMC4010500 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymgme.2012.06.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2012] [Revised: 06/12/2012] [Accepted: 06/12/2012] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Deficiencies of lysosomal β-D-galactosidase can result in GM1 gangliosidosis, a severe neurodegenerative disease characterized by massive neuronal storage of GM1 ganglioside in the brain. Currently there are no available therapies that can even slow the progression of this disease. Enzyme enhancement therapy utilizes small molecules that can often cross the blood brain barrier, but are also often competitive inhibitors of their target enzyme. It is a promising new approach for treating diseases, often caused by missense mutations, associated with dramatically reduced levels of functionally folded enzyme. Despite a number of positive reports based on assays performed with patient cells, skepticism persists that an inhibitor-based treatment can increase mutant enzyme activity in vivo. To date no appropriate animal model, i.e., one that recapitulates a responsive human genotype and clinical phenotype, has been reported that could be used to validate enzyme enhancement therapy. In this report, we identify a novel enzyme enhancement-agent, N-nonyl-deoxygalactonojirimycin, that enhances the mutant β-galactosidase activity in the lysosomes of a number of patient cell lines containing a variety of missense mutations. We then demonstrate that treatment of cells from a previously described, naturally occurring feline model (that biochemically, clinically and molecularly closely mimics GM1 gangliosidosis in humans) with this molecule, results in a robust enhancement of their mutant lysosomal β-galactosidase activity. These data indicate that the feline model could be used to validate this therapeutic approach and determine the relationship between the disease stage at which this therapy is initiated and the maximum clinical benefits obtainable.
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- Brigitte A. Rigat
- Genetics & Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada M5G 1X8
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- Genetics & Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada M5G 1X8
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- Genetics & Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada M5G 1X8
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- Clinical & Metabolic Genetics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada M5G 1X8
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- Genetics & Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada M5G 1X8
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- Genetics & Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada M5G 1X8
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada M5S 1A8
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- Scott-Ritchey Research Center and Dept. Anatomy, Physiology & Pharmacology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Auburn University, AL 36849, USA
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- Genetics & Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada M5G 1X8
- Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada M5S 1A8
- Corresponding author at: Genetics & Genome Biology Department, The Hospital for Sick Children, Room 9146 A, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1X8. Fax: +1 416 813 8700. (D.J. Mahuran)
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Babajani G, Tropak MB, Mahuran DJ, Kermode AR. Pharmacological chaperones facilitate the post-ER transport of recombinant N370S mutant β-glucocerebrosidase in plant cells: evidence that N370S is a folding mutant. Mol Genet Metab 2012; 106:323-9. [PMID: 22592100 PMCID: PMC3425598 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymgme.2012.04.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2012] [Revised: 04/20/2012] [Accepted: 04/20/2012] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
Abstract
Gaucher disease is a prevalent lysosomal storage disease in which affected individuals inherit mutations in the gene (GBA1) encoding lysosomal acid β-glucosidase (glucocerebrosidase, GCase, EC 3.2.1.45). One of the most prevalent disease-causing mutations in humans is a N370S missense mutation in the GCase protein. As part of a larger endeavor to study the fate of mutant human proteins expressed in plant cells, the N370S mutant protein along with the wild-type- (WT)-GCase, both equipped with a signal peptide, were synthesized in transgenic tobacco BY2 cells, which do not possess lysosomes. The enzymatic activity of plant-recombinant N370S GCase lines was significantly lower (by 81-95%) than that of the WT-GCase lines. In contrast to the WT-GCase protein, which was efficiently secreted from tobacco BY2 cells, and detected in large amounts in the culture medium, only a small proportion of the N370S GCase was secreted. Pharmacological chaperones such as N-(n-nonyl) deoxynojirimycin and ambroxol increased the steady-state mutant protein levels both inside the plant cells and in the culture medium. These findings contradict the assertion that small molecule chaperones increase N370S GCase activity (as assayed in treated patient cell lysates) by stabilizing the enzyme in the lysosome, and suggest that the mutant protein is impaired in its ability to obtain its functional folded conformation, which is a requirement for exiting the lumen of the ER.
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- Gholamreza Babajani
- Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Dr., Burnaby, BC, Canada V5A 1S6
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He X, Galpin JD, Tropak MB, Mahuran D, Haselhorst T, von Itzstein M, Kolarich D, Packer NH, Miao Y, Jiang L, Grabowski GA, Clarke LA, Kermode AR. Production of active human glucocerebrosidase in seeds of Arabidopsis thaliana complex-glycan-deficient (cgl) plants. Glycobiology 2012; 22:492-503. [PMID: 22061999 PMCID: PMC3425599 DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cwr157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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There is a clear need for efficient methods to produce protein therapeutics requiring mannose-termination for therapeutic efficacy. Here we report on a unique system for production of active human lysosomal acid β-glucosidase (glucocerebrosidase, GCase, EC 3.2.1.45) using seeds of the Arabidopsis thaliana complex-glycan-deficient (cgl) mutant, which are deficient in the activity of N-acetylglucosaminyl transferase I (EC 2.4.1.101). Gaucher disease is a prevalent lysosomal storage disease in which affected individuals inherit mutations in the gene (GBA1) encoding GCase. A gene cassette optimized for seed expression was used to generate the human enzyme in seeds of the cgl (C5) mutant, and the recombinant GCase was mainly accumulated in the apoplast. Importantly, the enzymatic properties including kinetic parameters, half-maximal inhibitory concentration of isofagomine and thermal stability of the cgl-derived GCase were comparable with those of imiglucerase, a commercially available recombinant human GCase used for enzyme replacement therapy in Gaucher patients. N-glycan structural analyses of recombinant cgl-GCase showed that the majority of the N-glycans (97%) were mannose terminated. Additional purification was required to remove ∼15% of the plant-derived recombinant GCase that possessed potentially immunogenic (xylose- and/or fucose-containing) N-glycans. Uptake of cgl-derived GCase by mouse macrophages was similar to that of imiglucerase. The cgl seed system requires no addition of foreign (non-native) amino acids to the mature recombinant GCase protein, and the dry transgenic seeds represent a stable repository of the therapeutic protein. Other strategies that may completely prevent plant-like complex N-glycans are discussed, including the use of a null cgl mutant.
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- Xu He
- Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Dr., Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Dr., Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada
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- Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1X8, Canada
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- Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1X8, Canada
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Toronto, Banting Institute, 100 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1L5, Canada
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- Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Queensland 4222, Australia
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- Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Queensland 4222, Australia
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Scienes, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales 2109, Australia
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Scienes, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales 2109, Australia
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- Department of Biology and Molecular Biotechnology Program, Centre for Cell and Developmental Biology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Biology and Molecular Biotechnology Program, Centre for Cell and Developmental Biology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, China
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- Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA
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- Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Children’s and Family Research Institute, 950 W 28th Ave., Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Dr., Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada
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Goddard-Borger ED, Tropak MB, Yonekawa S, Tysoe C, Mahuran DJ, Withers SG. Rapid assembly of a library of lipophilic iminosugars via the thiol-ene reaction yields promising pharmacological chaperones for the treatment of Gaucher disease. J Med Chem 2012; 55:2737-45. [PMID: 22360565 DOI: 10.1021/jm201633y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
Abstract
A highly divergent route to lipophilic iminosugars that utilizes the thiol-ene reaction was developed to enable the rapid synthesis of a collection of 16 dideoxyiminoxylitols bearing various different lipophilic substituents. Enzyme kinetic analyses revealed that a number of these products are potent, low-nanomolar inhibitors of human glucocerebrosidase that stabilize the enzyme to thermal denaturation by up to 20 K. Cell based assays conducted on Gaucher disease patient derived fibroblasts demonstrated that administration of the compounds can increase lysosomal glucocerebrosidase activity levels by therapeutically relevant amounts, as much as 3.2-fold in cells homozygous for the p.N370S mutation and 1.4-fold in cells homozygous for the p.L444P mutation. Several compounds elicited this increase in enzyme activity over a relatively wide dosage range. The data assembled here illustrate how the lipophilic moiety common to many glucocerebrosidase inhibitors might be used to optimize a lead compound's ability to chaperone the protein in cellulo. The flexibility of this synthetic strategy makes it an attractive approach to the rapid optimization of glycosidase inhibitor potency and pharmacokinetic behavior.
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- Ethan D Goddard-Borger
- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z1, Canada
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Rempel BP, Tropak MB, Mahuran DJ, Withers SG. Tailoring the Specificity and Reactivity of a Mechanism-Based Inactivator of Glucocerebrosidase for Potential Therapeutic Applications. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2011; 50:10381-3. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201103924] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2011] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Rempel BP, Tropak MB, Mahuran DJ, Withers SG. Tailoring the Specificity and Reactivity of a Mechanism-Based Inactivator of Glucocerebrosidase for Potential Therapeutic Applications. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2011. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201103924] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Fröhlich RF, Furneaux RH, Mahuran DJ, Saf R, Stütz AE, Tropak MB, Wicki J, Withers SG, Wrodnigg TM. 1-Deoxy-D-galactonojirimycins with dansyl capped N-substituents as β-galactosidase inhibitors and potential probes for GM1 gangliosidosis affected cell lines. Carbohydr Res 2011; 346:1592-8. [PMID: 21645885 PMCID: PMC3158671 DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2011.05.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2011] [Revised: 05/10/2011] [Accepted: 05/11/2011] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Two simple and reliably accessible intermediates, N-carboxypentyl- and N-aminohexyl-1-deoxy-D-galactonojirimycin were employed for the synthesis of a set of terminally N-dansyl substituted derivatives. Reaction of the terminal carboxylic acid of N-carboxypentyl-1-deoxy-D-galactonojirimycin with N-dansyl-1,6-diaminohexane provided the chain-extended fluorescent derivative. Employing bis(6-dansylaminohexyl)amine, the corresponding branched di-N-dansyl compound was obtained. Partially protected N-aminohexyl-1-deoxy-D-galactonojirimycin served as intermediate for two additional chain-extended fluorescent 1-deoxy-D-galactonojirimycin (1-DGJ) derivatives featuring terminal dansyl groups in the N-alkyl substituent. These new compounds are strong inhibitors of d-galactosidases and may serve as leads en route to pharmacological chaperones for GM1-gangliosidosis.
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- Richard F.G. Fröhlich
- Carbohydrate Chemistry Team, Industrial Research Limited, PO Box 31-310, 5040 Lower Hutt, New Zealand
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- Carbohydrate Chemistry Team, Industrial Research Limited, PO Box 31-310, 5040 Lower Hutt, New Zealand
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Sick Kids Hospital, 555 University Avenue, University of Toronto, Ont., Canada M5G 1X8
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- Institute for Chemistry and Technology of Materials, Graz University of Technology, Stremayrgasse 9, A-8010 Graz, Austria
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- Glycogroup, Institut für Organische Chemie, Technische Universität Graz, Stremayrgasse 9, A-8010 Graz, Austria
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Sick Kids Hospital, 555 University Avenue, University of Toronto, Ont., Canada M5G 1X8
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- Chemistry Department, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z1
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- Chemistry Department, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z1
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- Glycogroup, Institut für Organische Chemie, Technische Universität Graz, Stremayrgasse 9, A-8010 Graz, Austria
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Hill T, Tropak MB, Mahuran D, Withers SG. Synthesis, Kinetic Evaluation and Cell-Based Analysis of C-Alkylated Isofagomines as Chaperones of β-Glucocerebrosidase. Chembiochem 2011; 12:2151-4. [DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201100332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2011] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Tropak MB, Shi H, Li J, Dai X, Redington AN, Askalan R. Potent neuroprotection induced by remote preconditioning in a rat model of neonatal cerebral hypoxic-ischemic injury. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2011; 142:233-5. [PMID: 21555139 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2011.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2010] [Revised: 03/18/2011] [Accepted: 04/06/2011] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Michael B Tropak
- Program in Genetics and Genome Biology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Schitter G, Steiner AJ, Pototschnig G, Scheucher E, Thonhofer M, Tarling CA, Withers SG, Fantur K, Paschke E, Mahuran DJ, Rigat BA, Tropak MB, Illaszewicz C, Saf R, Stütz AE, Wrodnigg TM. Fluorous iminoalditols: a new family of glycosidase inhibitors and pharmacological chaperones. Chembiochem 2011; 11:2026-33. [PMID: 20715263 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201000192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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A collection of new reversible glycosidase inhibitors of the iminoalditol type featuring N-substituents containing perfluorinated regions has been prepared for evaluation of physicochemical, biochemical and diagnostic properties. The vast variety of feasible oligofluoro moieties allows for modular approaches to customised structures according to the intended applications, which are influenced by the fluorine content as well as the distance of the fluorous moiety from the ring nitrogen. The first examples, in particular in the D-galacto series, exhibited excellent inhibitory activities. A preliminary screen with two human cell lines showed that, at subinhibitory concentrations, they are powerful pharmacological chaperones enhancing the activities of the catalytically handicapped lysosomal D-galactosidase mutants associated with GM1 gangliosidosis and Morquio B disease.
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- Georg Schitter
- Glycogroup, Deparment of Organic Chemistry, Graz University of Technology, 8010 Graz, Austria
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Clarke JTR, Mahuran DJ, Sathe S, Kolodny EH, Rigat BA, Raiman JA, Tropak MB. An open-label Phase I/II clinical trial of pyrimethamine for the treatment of patients affected with chronic GM2 gangliosidosis (Tay-Sachs or Sandhoff variants). Mol Genet Metab 2011; 102:6-12. [PMID: 20926324 PMCID: PMC3019177 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymgme.2010.09.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2010] [Revised: 09/11/2010] [Accepted: 09/13/2010] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Late-onset GM2 gangliosidosis is an autosomal recessive, neurodegenerative, lysosomal storage disease, caused by deficiency of ß-hexosaminidase A (Hex A), resulting from mutations in the HEXA (Tay-Sachs variant) or the HEXB (Sandhoff variant) genes. The enzyme deficiency in many patients with juvenile or adult onset forms of the disease results from the production of an unstable protein, which becomes targeted for premature degradation by the quality control system of the smooth endoplasmic reticulum and is not transported to lysosomes. In vitro studies have shown that many mutations in either the α or β subunit of Hex A can be partially rescued, i.e. enhanced levels of both enzyme protein and activity in lysosomes, following the growth of patient cells in the presence of the drug, pyrimethamine. The objectives of the present clinical trial were to establish the tolerability and efficacy of the treatment of late-onset GM2 gangliosidosis patients with escalating doses of pyrimethamine, to a maximum of 100 mg per day, administered orally in a single daily dose, over a 16-week period . The primary objective, tolerability, was assessed by regular clinical examinations, along with a panel of hematologic and biochemical studies. Although clinical efficacy could not be assessed in this short trial, treatment efficacy was evaluated by repeated measurements of leukocyte Hex A activity, expressed relative to the activity of lysosomal ß-glucuronidase. A total of 11 patients were enrolled, 8 males and 3 females, aged 23 to 50 years. One subject failed the initial screen, another was omitted from analysis because of the large number of protocol violations, and a third was withdrawn very early as a result of adverse events which were not drug-related. For the remaining 8 subjects, up to a 4-fold enhancement of Hex A activity at doses of 50 mg per day or less was observed. Additionally marked individual variations in the pharmacokinetics of the drug among the patients were noted. However, the study also found that significant side effects were experienced by most patients at or above 75 mg pyrimethamine per day. We concluded that pyrimethamine treatment enhances leukocyte Hex A activity in patients with late-onset GM2 gangliosidosis at doses lower than those associated with unacceptable side effects. Further plans are underway to extend these trials and to develop methods to assess clinical efficacy.
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- Joe T R Clarke
- Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Fröhlich RFG, Furneaux RH, Mahuran DJ, Rigat BA, Stütz AE, Tropak MB, Wicki J, Withers SG, Wrodnigg TM. 1-Deoxynojirimycins with dansyl capped N-substituents as probes for Morbus Gaucher affected cell lines. Carbohydr Res 2010; 345:1371-6. [PMID: 20471633 PMCID: PMC3201982 DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2010.04.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2010] [Revised: 04/08/2010] [Accepted: 04/19/2010] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Cyclization by double reductive amination of d-xylo-hexos-5-ulose with methyl 6-aminohexanoate gave (methoxycarbonyl)pentyl-1-deoxynojirimycin. Reaction of the terminal carboxylic acid with N-dansyl-1,6-diaminohexane provided the corresponding chain-extended fluorescent derivative. By reaction with bis(6-dansylaminohexyl)amine, the corresponding branched di-N-dansyl compound was obtained. Both compounds are strong inhibitors of d-glucosidases and could also be shown to distinctly improve, at sub-inhibitory concentrations, the activity of beta-glucocerebrosidase in a Gaucher fibroblast (N370S) cell-line through chaperoning of the enzyme to the lysosome.
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- Richard F. G. Fröhlich
- Carbohydrate Chemistry Team, Industrial Research Limited, PO Box 31-310, 5040 Lower Hutt, New Zealand
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- Carbohydrate Chemistry Team, Industrial Research Limited, PO Box 31-310, 5040 Lower Hutt, New Zealand
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Sick Kids Hospital, 555 University Avenue, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1X8
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Sick Kids Hospital, 555 University Avenue, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1X8
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- Glycogroup, Institut für Organische Chemie, Technische Universität Graz, Stremayrgasse 16, A-8010 Graz, Austria
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Sick Kids Hospital, 555 University Avenue, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1X8
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- Chemistry Department, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z1
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- Chemistry Department, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z1
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- Glycogroup, Institut für Organische Chemie, Technische Universität Graz, Stremayrgasse 16, A-8010 Graz, Austria
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Tropak MB, Bukovac SW, Rigat BA, Yonekawa S, Wakarchuk W, Mahuran DJ. A sensitive fluorescence-based assay for monitoring GM2 ganglioside hydrolysis in live patient cells and their lysates. Glycobiology 2009; 20:356-65. [PMID: 19917668 DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cwp183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Enzyme enhancement therapy, utilizing small molecules as pharmacological chaperones, is an attractive approach for the treatment of lysosomal storage diseases that are associated with protein misfolding. However, pharmacological chaperones are also inhibitors of their target enzyme. Thus, a major concern with this approach is that, despite enhancing protein folding within, and intracellular transport of the functional mutant enzyme out of the endoplasmic reticulum, the chaperone will continue to inhibit the enzyme in the lysosome, preventing substrate clearance. Here we demonstrate that the in vitro hydrolysis of a fluorescent derivative of lyso-GM2 ganglioside, like natural GM2 ganglioside, is specifically carried out by the beta-hexosaminidase A isozyme, requires the GM2 activator protein as a co-factor, increases when the derivative is incorporated into anionic liposomes and follows similar Michaelis-Menten kinetics. This substrate can also be used to differentiate between lysates from normal and GM2 activator-deficient cells. When added to the growth medium of cells, the substrate is internalized and primarily incorporated into lysosomes. Utilizing adult Tay-Sachs fibroblasts that have been pre-treated with the pharmacological chaperone Pyrimethamine and subsequently loaded with this substrate, we demonstrate an increase in both the levels of mutant beta-hexosaminidase A and substrate-hydrolysis as compared to mock-treated cells.
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Maegawa GHB, Tropak MB, Buttner JD, Rigat BA, Fuller M, Pandit D, Tang L, Kornhaber GJ, Hamuro Y, Clarke JTR, Mahuran DJ. Identification and characterization of ambroxol as an enzyme enhancement agent for Gaucher disease. J Biol Chem 2009; 284:23502-16. [PMID: 19578116 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m109.012393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 224] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Gaucher disease (GD), the most prevalent lysosomal storage disease, is caused by a deficiency of glucocerebrosidase (GCase). The identification of small molecules acting as agents for enzyme enhancement therapy is an attractive approach for treating different forms of GD. A thermal denaturation assay utilizing wild type GCase was developed to screen a library of 1,040 Food and Drug Administration-approved drugs. Ambroxol (ABX), a drug used to treat airway mucus hypersecretion and hyaline membrane disease in newborns, was identified and found to be a pH-dependent, mixed-type inhibitor of GCase. Its inhibitory activity was maximal at neutral pH, found in the endoplasmic reticulum, and undetectable at the acidic pH of lysosomes. The pH dependence of ABX to bind and stabilize the enzyme was confirmed by monitoring the rate of hydrogen/deuterium exchange at increasing guanidine hydrochloride concentrations. ABX treatment significantly increased N370S and F213I mutant GCase activity and protein levels in GD fibroblasts. These increases were primarily confined to the lysosome-enriched fraction of treated cells, a finding confirmed by confocal immunofluorescence microscopy. Additionally, enhancement of GCase activity and a reduction in glucosylceramide storage was verified in ABX-treated GD lymphoblasts (N370S/N370S). Hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometry revealed that upon binding of ABX, amino acid segments 243-249, 310-312, and 386-400 near the active site of GCase are stabilized. Consistent with its mixed-type inhibition of GCase, modeling studies indicated that ABX interacts with both active and non-active site residues. Thus, ABX has the biochemical characteristics of a safe and effective enzyme enhancement therapy agent for the treatment of patients with the most common GD genotypes.
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- Gustavo H B Maegawa
- Division of Clinical and Metabolic Genetics, Department of Paediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Ave., Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada
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Steiner AJ, Schitter G, Stütz AE, Wrodnigg TM, Tarling CA, Withers SG, Mahuran DJ, Tropak MB. 2-Acetamino-1,2-dideoxynojirimycin-lysine hybrids as hexosaminidase inhibitors. Tetrahedron Asymmetry 2009; 20:832-835. [PMID: 22328804 PMCID: PMC3276585 DOI: 10.1016/j.tetasy.2009.02.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Cyclisation by double reductive amination of 2-acetamino-2-deoxy-D-xylo-hexos-5-ulose with N-2 protected L-lysine derivatives provided 2-acetamino-1,2-dideoxynojirimycin derivatives without any observable epimer formation at C-5. Modifications on the lysine moiety gave access to lipophilic derivatives that exhibited improved hexosaminidase inhibitory activities.
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- Andreas J. Steiner
- Glycogroup, Institut für Organische Chemie, Technische Universität Graz, Stremayrgasse 16, A-8010 Graz, Austria
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- Glycogroup, Institut für Organische Chemie, Technische Universität Graz, Stremayrgasse 16, A-8010 Graz, Austria
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- Glycogroup, Institut für Organische Chemie, Technische Universität Graz, Stremayrgasse 16, A-8010 Graz, Austria
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- Glycogroup, Institut für Organische Chemie, Technische Universität Graz, Stremayrgasse 16, A-8010 Graz, Austria
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- Chemistry Department, University of British Columbia, 300-6174 University Boulevard, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z3
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- Chemistry Department, University of British Columbia, 300-6174 University Boulevard, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z3
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Sick Kids Hospital, 555 University Avenue, University of Toronto, Ont., Canada M5G 1X8
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Sick Kids Hospital, 555 University Avenue, University of Toronto, Ont., Canada M5G 1X8
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Structurally destabilizing mutations in acid beta-glucosidase (GCase) can result in Gaucher disease (GD). The iminosugar isofagomine (IFG), a competitive inhibitor and a potential pharmacological chaperone of GCase, is currently undergoing clinical evaluation for the treatment of GD. An X-ray crystallographic study of the GCase-IFG complex revealed a hydrogen bonding network between IFG and certain active site residues. It was suggested that this network may translate into greater global stability. Here it is demonstrated that IFG does increase the global stability of wild-type GCase, shifting its melting curve by approximately 15 degrees C and that it enhances mutant GCase activity in pre-treated N370S/N370S and F213I/L444P patient fibroblasts. Additionally, amide hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectroscopy (H/D-Ex) was employed to identify regions within GCase that undergo stabilization upon IFG-binding. H/D-Ex data indicate that the binding of IFG not only restricts the local protein dynamics of the active site, but also propagates this effect into surrounding regions.
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- Gregory J Kornhaber
- ExSAR Corporation, 11 Deer Park Drive, Suite 103, Monmouth Junction, NJ 08852, USA
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Tropak MB, Kornhaber GJ, Rigat BA, Maegawa GH, Buttner JD, Blanchard JE, Murphy C, Tuske SJ, Coales SJ, Hamuro Y, Brown ED, Mahuran DJ. Identification of pharmacological chaperones for Gaucher disease and characterization of their effects on beta-glucocerebrosidase by hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometry. Chembiochem 2009; 9:2650-62. [PMID: 18972510 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200800304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Point mutations in beta-glucocerebrosidase (GCase) can result in a deficiency of both GCase activity and protein in lysosomes thereby causing Gaucher Disease (GD). Enzyme inhibitors such as isofagomine, acting as pharmacological chaperones (PCs), increase these levels by binding and stabilizing the native form of the enzyme in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), and allow increased lysosomal transport of the enzyme. A high-throughput screen of the 50,000-compound Maybridge library identified two, non-carbohydrate-based inhibitory molecules, a 2,4-diamino-5-substituted quinazoline (IC(50) 5 microM) and a 5-substituted pyridinyl-2-furamide (IC(50) 8 microM). They raised the levels of functional GCase 1.5-2.5-fold in N370S or F213I GD fibroblasts. Immunofluorescence confirmed that treated GD fibroblasts had decreased levels of GCase in their ER and increased levels in lysosomes. Changes in protein dynamics, monitored by hydrogen/deuterium-exchange mass spectrometry, identified a domain III active-site loop (residues 243-249) as being significantly stabilized upon binding of isofagomine or either of these two new compounds; this suggests a common mechanism for PC enhancement of intracellular transport.
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- Michael B Tropak
- Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G1X8, Canada
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Tropak MB, Kornhaber GJ, Rigat BA, Maegawa GH, Buttner JD, Blanchard JE, Murphy C, Tuske SJ, Coales SJ, Hamuro Y, Brown ED, Mahuran DJ. Cover Picture: Identification of Pharmacological Chaperones for Gaucher Disease and Characterization of Their Effects on β-Glucocerebrosidase by Hydrogen/Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry (ChemBioChem 16/2008). Chembiochem 2008. [DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200890061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Enzyme enhancement therapy is an emerging therapeutic approach that has the potential to treat many genetic diseases. Candidate diseases are those associated with a mutant protein that has difficulty folding and/or assembling into active oligomers in the endoplasmic reticulum. Many lysosomal storage diseases are candidates for enzyme enhancement therapy and have the additional advantage of requiring only 5-10% of normal enzyme levels to reduce and/or prevent substrate accumulation. Our long experience in working with the beta-hexosaminidase (EC 3.2.1.52) isozymes system and its associated deficiencies (Tay-Sachs and Sandhoff disease) lead us to search for possible enzyme enhancement therapy-agents that could treat the chronic forms of these diseases which express 2-5% residual activity. Pharmacological chaperones are enzyme enhancement therapy-agents that are competitive inhibitors of the target enzyme. Each of the known beta-hexosaminidase inhibitors (low microm IC50) increased mutant enzyme levels to >or= 10% in chronic Tay-Sachs fibroblasts and also attenuated the thermo-denaturation of beta-hexosaminidase. To expand the repertoire of pharmacological chaperones to more 'drug-like' compounds, we screened the Maybridge library of 50,000 compounds using a real-time assay for noncarbohydrate-based beta-hexosaminidase inhibitors and identified several that functioned as pharmacological chaperones in patient cells. Two of these inhibitors had derivatives that had been tested in humans for other purposes. These observations lead us to screen the NINDS library of 1040 Food and Drug Administration approved compounds for pharmacological chaperones. Pyrimethamine, an antimalarial drug with well documented pharmacokinetics, was confirmed as a beta-hexosaminidase pharmacological chaperone and compared favorably with our best carbohydrate-based pharmacological chaperone in patient cells with various mutant genotypes.
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Tropak MB, Blanchard J, Withers SG, Brown E, Mahuran D. High-throughput screening for human lysosomal beta-N-Acetyl hexosaminidase inhibitors acting as pharmacological chaperones. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 14:153-64. [PMID: 17317569 PMCID: PMC1989145 DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2006.12.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2006] [Revised: 10/05/2006] [Accepted: 12/01/2006] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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The adult forms of Tay-Sachs and Sandhoff diseases result when the activity of beta-hexosaminidase A (Hex) falls below approximately 10% of normal due to decreased transport of the destabilized mutant enzyme to the lysosome. Carbohydrate-based competitive inhibitors of Hex act as pharmacological chaperones (PC) in patient cells, facilitating exit of the enzyme from the endoplasmic reticulum, thereby increasing the mutant Hex protein and activity levels in the lysosome 3- to 6-fold. To identify drug-like PC candidates, we developed a fluorescence-based real-time enzyme assay and screened the Maybridge library of 50,000 compounds for inhibitors of purified Hex. Three structurally distinct micromolar competitive inhibitors, a bisnaphthalimide, nitro-indan-1-one, and pyrrolo[3,4-d]pyridazin-1-one were identified that specifically increased lysosomal Hex protein and activity levels in patient fibroblasts. These results validate screening for inhibitory compounds as an approach to identifying PCs.
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- Michael B. Tropak
- Research Institute, SickKids, 555 University Ave., Toronto, Ontario, CANADA M5G 1X8
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- Dept. of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, 1200 Main St. W, Hamilton, Ontario, CANADA L8T 3Z5
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- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.CANADA V6T 1Z1
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- Dept. of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, 1200 Main St. W, Hamilton, Ontario, CANADA L8T 3Z5
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- Research Institute, SickKids, 555 University Ave., Toronto, Ontario, CANADA M5G 1X8
- Dept. of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Toronto, Banting Institute, 100 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA M5G 1L5
- To whom correspondence should be addressed: Research Institute, Rm. 9146A, Elm Wing, Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, Toronto Ontario, M5G 1X8, Ph: 416 813 6161, Fx: 416 813 8700,
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Fan X, Zhang H, Zhang S, Bagshaw RD, Tropak MB, Callahan JW, Mahuran DJ. Identification of the gene encoding the enzyme deficient in mucopolysaccharidosis IIIC (Sanfilippo disease type C). Am J Hum Genet 2006; 79:738-44. [PMID: 16960811 PMCID: PMC1592569 DOI: 10.1086/508068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2006] [Accepted: 07/27/2006] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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Mucopolysaccharidosis IIIC (MPS IIIC), or Sanfilippo C, represents the only MPS disorder in which the responsible gene has not been identified; however, the gene has been localized to the pericentromeric region of chromosome 8. In an ongoing proteomics study of mouse lysosomal membrane proteins, we identified an unknown protein whose human homolog, TMEM76, was encoded by a gene that maps to 8p11.1. A full-length mouse expressed sequence tag was expressed in human MPS IIIC fibroblasts, and its protein product localized to the lysosome and corrected the enzymatic defect. The mouse sequence was used to identify the full-length human homolog (HGSNAT), which encodes a protein with no homology to other proteins of known function but is highly conserved among plants and bacteria. Mutational analyses of two MPS IIIC cell lines identified a splice-junction mutation that accounted for three mutant alleles, and a single base-pair insertion accounted for the fourth.
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- Xiaolian Fan
- Research Institute, Metabolism Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1X8, Canada
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Sinici I, Zarghooni M, Tropak MB, Mahuran DJ, Ozkara HA. Comparison of HCMV IE and EF-1 promoters for the stable expression of beta-subunit of hexosaminidase in CHO cell lines. Biochem Genet 2006; 44:173-80. [PMID: 16645900 PMCID: PMC2910080 DOI: 10.1007/s10528-006-9016-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2005] [Accepted: 10/20/2005] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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- Incilay Sinici
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, 06100 Ankara, Turkey.
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Tropak MB, Reid SP, Guiral M, Withers SG, Mahuran D. Pharmacological enhancement of beta-hexosaminidase activity in fibroblasts from adult Tay-Sachs and Sandhoff Patients. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:13478-87. [PMID: 14724290 PMCID: PMC2904802 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m308523200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 161] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Tay-Sachs and Sandhoff diseases are lysosomal storage disorders that result from an inherited deficiency of beta-hexosaminidase A (alphabeta). Whereas the acute forms are associated with a total absence of hexosaminidase A and early death, the chronic adult forms exist with activity and protein levels of approximately 5%, and unaffected individuals have been found with only 10% of normal levels. Surprisingly, almost all disease-associated missense mutations do not affect the active site of the enzyme but, rather, inhibit its ability to obtain and/or retain its native fold in the endoplasmic reticulum, resulting in its retention and accelerated degradation. By growing adult Tay-Sachs fibroblasts in culture medium containing known inhibitors of hexosaminidase we have raised the residual protein and activity levels of intralysosomal hexosaminidase A well above the critical 10% of normal levels. A similar effect was observed in fibroblasts from an adult Sandhoff patient. We propose that these hexosaminidase inhibitors function as pharmacological chaperones, enhancing the stability of the native conformation of the enzyme, increasing the amount of hexosaminidase A capable of exiting the endoplasmic reticulum for transport to the lysosome. Therefore, pharmacological chaperones could provide a novel approach to the treatment of adult Tay-Sachs and possibly Sandhoff diseases.
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- Michael B. Tropak
- Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1
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- Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1
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- Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Toronto, Banting Institute, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1L5, Canada
- To whom correspondence should be addressed: Research Institute, Rm. 9146A, Elm Wing, Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Ave., Toronto M5G 1X8, Ontario. Tel.: 416-813-6161; Fax: 416-813-8700;
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Sinici I, Tropak MB, Mahuran DJ, Ozkara HA. Assessing the severity of the small inframe deletion mutation in the alpha-subunit of beta-hexosaminidase A found in the Turkish population by reproducing it in the more stable beta-subunit. J Inherit Metab Dis 2004; 27:747-56. [PMID: 15505380 PMCID: PMC2910077 DOI: 10.1023/b:boli.0000045759.12935.76] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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GM(2) gangliosidoses are a group of panethnic lysosomal storage diseases in which GM(2) ganglioside accumulates in the lysosome due to a defect in one of three genes, two of which encode the alpha- or beta-subunits of beta- N -acetylhexosaminidase (Hex) A. A small inframe deletion mutation in the catalytic domain of the alpha-subunit of Hex has been found in five Turkish patients with infantile Tay-Sachs disease. To date it has not been detected in other populations and is the only mutation to be found in exon 10. It results in detectable levels of inactive alpha-protein in its precursor form. Because the alpha- and beta-subunits share 60% sequence identity, the Hex A and Hex B genes are believed to have arisen from a common ancestral gene. Thus the subunits must share very similar three-dimensional structures with conserved functional domains. Hex B, the beta-subunit homodimer is more stable than the heterodimeric Hex A, and much more stable than Hex S, the alpha homodimer. Thus, mutations that completely destabilize the alpha-subunit can often be partially rescued if expressed in the aligned positions in the beta-subunit. To better understand the severity of the Turkish HEXA mutation, we reproduced the 12 bp deletion mutation (1267-1278) in the beta-subunit cDNA. Western blot analysis of permanently transfected CHO cells expressing the mutant detected only the pro-form of the beta-subunit coupled with a total lack of detectable Hex B activity. These data indicate that the deletion of the four amino acids severely affects the folding of even the more stable beta-subunit, causing its retention in the endoplasmic reticulum and ultimate degradation.
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- I Sinici
- Department of Biochemistry, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, 06100 Ankara, Turkey.
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Foussias G, Taylor SM, Yousef GM, Tropak MB, Ordon MH, Diamandis EP. Cloning and molecular characterization of two splice variants of a new putative member of the Siglec-3-like subgroup of Siglecs. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2001; 284:887-99. [PMID: 11409877 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2001.5052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The sialic acid binding immunoglobulin-like lectin (Siglec) family is a recently described member of the immunoglobulin superfamily. Within this Siglec family there exists a subgroup of molecules which bear a very high degree of homology with the molecule Siglec-3 (CD33), and has thus been designated the Siglec-3-like subgroup of Siglecs. The members of this subgroup have been localized to chromosome 19q13.4, through both in situ hybridization and precise genomic mapping at the nucleotide level. Through the positional cloning approach we have identified and characterized a Siglec-like gene (SLG), a putative novel member of the Siglec-3-like subgroup of Siglecs. We have characterized the complete genomic structure of SLG, as well as two alternative splice variants, and determined its chromosomal localization. The short isoform, SLG-S, consists of seven exons, with six intervening introns, while the longer isoform, SLG-L, consists of eight exons and seven intervening introns. The SLG gene is localized 32.9 kb downstream of Siglec-8 on chromosome 19q13.4. The putative SLG-S and SLG-L proteins, of 477 and 595 amino acid residues, respectively, show extensive homology to many members of the Siglec-3-like subgroup. This high degree of homology is conserved in the extracellular Ig-like domains, as well as in the cytoplasmic tyrosine-based motifs. Interestingly, the SLG-L protein contains two N-terminal V-set Ig-like domains, as opposed to SLG-S and other Siglec-3-like subgroup members which contain only one such domain. Through RT-PCR we have examined the expression profile of both SLG splice variants in a panel of human tissues and have found that SLG-S is highly expressed in spleen, small intestine and adrenal gland, while SLG-L exhibits high levels of expression in spleen, small intestine, and bone marrow. This gene is quite likely the latest novel member of the CD33-like subgroup of Siglecs, and given its high degree of homology, it may also serve a regulatory role in the proliferation and survival of a particular hematopoietic stem cell lineage, as has been found for CD33 and Siglec7.
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MESH Headings
- Alternative Splicing
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Antigens, CD/chemistry
- Antigens, CD/genetics
- Antigens, Differentiation, Myelomonocytic/chemistry
- Antigens, Differentiation, Myelomonocytic/genetics
- Base Sequence
- Cell Division
- Cell Survival
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 19
- Cloning, Molecular/methods
- Exons
- Genetic Variation
- Hematopoietic Stem Cells/cytology
- Humans
- Lectins/chemistry
- Lectins/genetics
- Membrane Proteins
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phylogeny
- Recombinant Proteins/chemistry
- Sequence Alignment
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Sialic Acid Binding Ig-like Lectin 3
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- G Foussias
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X5, Canada
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Schnaar RL, Collins BE, Wright LP, Kiso M, Tropak MB, Roder JC, Crocker PR. Myelin-associated glycoprotein binding to gangliosides. Structural specificity and functional implications. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1998; 845:92-105. [PMID: 9668345 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb09664.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG), which mediates certain myelin-neuron cell-cell interactions, is a lectin that binds to sialylated glycoconjugates. Gangliosides, the most abundant sialylated glycoconjugates in the brain, may be the functional neuronal ligands for MAG. Cells engineered to express MAG on their surface adhered specifically to gangliosides bearing an alpha 2,3-linked N-acetylneuraminic acid on a terminal galactose, with the following relative potency: GQ1b alpha >> GD1a, GT1b >> GM3, GM4 (GM1, GD1b, GD3, and GQ1b did not support adhesion). MAG binding was abrogated by modification of the carboxylic acid, any hydroxyl, or the N-acetyl group of the ganglioside's N-acetylneuraminic acid moiety. Related immunoglobulin (Ig) superfamily members either failed to bind gangliosides (CD22) or bound with less stringent specificity (sialoadhesin), whereas a modified form of MAG (bearing three of its five extra-cellular Ig-like domains) bound only GQ1b alpha. Enzymatic removal of sialic acids from the surface of intact nerve cells altered their functional interaction with myelin. These data are consistent with a role for gangliosides in MAG-neuron interactions.
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- R L Schnaar
- Department of Pharmacology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
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Collins BE, Kiso M, Hasegawa A, Tropak MB, Roder JC, Crocker PR, Schnaar RL. Binding specificities of the sialoadhesin family of I-type lectins. Sialic acid linkage and substructure requirements for binding of myelin-associated glycoprotein, Schwann cell myelin protein, and sialoadhesin. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:16889-95. [PMID: 9201997 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.27.16889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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The carbohydrate binding specificities of three sialoadhesins, a subgroup of I-type lectins (immunoglobulin superfamily lectins), were compared by measuring lectin-transfected COS cell adhesion to natural and synthetic gangliosides. The neural sialoadhesins, myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG) and Schwann cell myelin protein (SMP), had similar and stringent binding specificities. Each required an alpha2,3-linked sialic acid on the terminal galactose of a neutral saccharide core, and they shared the following rank-order potency of binding: GQ1balpha >> GD1a = GT1b >> GM3 = GM4 >> GM1, GD1b, GD3, GQ1b (nonbinders). In contrast, sialoadhesin had less exacting specificity, binding to gangliosides that bear either terminal alpha2,3- or alpha2,8-linked sialic acids with the following rank-order potency of binding: GQ1balpha > GD1a = GD1b = GT1b = GM3 = GM4 > GD3 = GQ1b >> GM1 (nonbinder). CD22 did not bind to any ganglioside tested. Binding of MAG, SMP, and sialoadhesin was abrogated by chemical modification of either the sialic acid carboxylic acid group or glycerol side chain on a target ganglioside. Synthetic ganglioside GM3 derivatives further distinguished lectin binding specificities. Deoxy and/or methoxy derivatives of the 4-, 7-, 8-, or 9-position of sialic acid attenuated or eliminated binding of MAG, as did replacement of the sialic acid acetamido group with a hydroxyl. In contrast, the 4- and 7-deoxysialic acid derivatives supported sialoadhesin binding at near control levels (the other derivatives did not support binding). These data are consistent with sialoadhesin binding to one face of the sialic acid moiety, whereas MAG (and SMP) may have more complex binding sites or may bind sialic acids only in the context of more restricted oligosaccharide conformations.
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- B E Collins
- Departments of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
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Myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG) and Schwann cell myelin protein (SMP) are highly glycosylated members of a newly defined family of cell adhesion molecules belonging to the immunoglobulin superfamily that recognize terminal sialic acid residues on N- and O-linked oligosaccharides. The importance of the N-linked oligosaccharides on MAG were determined by removal of the eight predicted carbohydrate addition sites by site-directed mutagenesis. The results suggest that all eight N-linked glycosylation sites are utilized in COS cells. N-linked glycosylation does not appear to be required for sialic acid-dependent MAG binding to erythrocytes. However, N-linked glycosylation of MAG does play a role in the proper folding of MAG. It was also shown that sialylation in the host cell expressing MAG and SMP could inhibit binding to erythrocytes. The degree to which SMP and MAG erythrocyte binding was affected by sialylation in the host cell was dependent on (a) the level at which MAG was expressed on the surface of the host cell and (b) the presence of MAG ligands on the host cell. The data suggest that cis-ligands on the host cell compete with trans-ligands on the target cell for the binding site(s) on MAG.
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- M B Tropak
- Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Shpitz B, Stern H, Sandhu JS, Reilley RM, Tropak MB, Jansz G, Xu J, Gallinger S. Cytotoxicity of B72.3XOKT3 bispecific antibody recognizing human colon cancer. J Surg Res 1996; 61:134-8. [PMID: 8769955 DOI: 10.1006/jsre.1996.0093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Bispecific monoclonal antibodies can be used to redirect peripheral blood lymphocytes against tumor cells. In the present study, a murine bispecific monoclonal antibody was developed using somatic hybrydization. The antibody has two different binding arms: one arm directed against human CD3 receptor expressed on T-lymphocytes and the other against tumor associated glycoprotein TAG-72, expressed on human carcinomas, such as colon, breast, and pancreas. Partially purified antibody was capable of inducing human T-cell proliferation and preventing growth of colon cancer cell line in nu/nu mice in a tumor neutralization assay.
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- B Shpitz
- Department of Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Tropak MB, Jansz GF, Abramow-Newerly W, Roder JC. Conservation of functionally important epitopes on myelin associated glycoprotein (MAG). Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 1995; 112:345-54. [PMID: 7584863 DOI: 10.1016/0305-0491(95)00087-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Phylogenetic conservation of protein domains often points to functionally important regions. As a step toward mapping these sites on myelin associated glycoprotein (MAG) we have determined the species distribution of epitopes recognized by a panel of anti-MAG antibodies (Ab). Monoclonal antibodies (mAb) B11F7, GenS3 and 28 recognized MAG only in mammalian species. However, the mAb 513 which inhibits MAG binding recognized a conformational epitope in a wider distribution of species including, human (Homo sapiens), bovine (Bos taurus), rat (Rattus norvegicus), chicken (Gallus gallus), quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica), lizard (Iguana iguana), snake (Thamnophis sirtalis), frog (Xenopus laevis) and turtle (all tetrapods) but not in goldfish (Crassius aurata) (a teleost). However, only MAG from mammals was shown to bind rat dorsal ganglion neurons (DRGs) suggesting that structures additional to those recognized by mAb 513 must be involved in function. Antibody 28, on the other hand, recognized only MAG species which bound to neurons, suggesting that this epitope, in comparison with mAb 513, more closely represented the functionally important region of MAG. Observed species differences in glycosylation of MAG may be functionally significant. A newly developed polyclonal Ab against MAG recognized the protein in tetrapods and teleosts, but not chondricthyes. The results show that MAG is present in a wide spectrum of species.
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- M B Tropak
- Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Meyer-Franke A, Tropak MB, Roder JC, Fischer P, Beyreuther K, Probstmeier R, Schachner M. Functional topography of myelin-associated glycoprotein. II. Mapping of domains on molecular fragments. J Neurosci Res 1995; 41:311-23. [PMID: 7563224 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.490410304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG), an adhesion molecule of the immunoglobulin (Ig) superfamily with five Ig-like domains, was investigated with regard to its binding site(s) for the neuronal cell surface, collagen I, and heparin, using a panel of new monoclonal antibodies and cyanogen bromide cleavage fragments of MAG. All antibodies generated competed with each other for binding to MAG, indicating that they reacted with identical or closely related epitopes. Mapping of the reactive epitopes on recombinant deletion fragments of MAG expressed by Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) fibroblasts showed reactivity of monoclonal antibody 513 with domains I, II, and III, comprising the amino-terminal end of the extracellular domain. Monoclonal antibody 15 recognized domain III only. Binding of MAG-containing liposomes to neurons was blocked by antibodies 15 and 513. Cyanogen bromide (CNBr) fragments of domains I, II, and III bound to collagen type I under isotonic buffer conditions. CNBr fragments containing domains I and II were involved in binding to heparin. These observations suggest that domain III may be important for binding to the neuronal cell surface receptor for MAG, while domains I, II, and III interact with collagen type I and domains II and III with heparin.
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- A Meyer-Franke
- Department of Neurobiology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Hönggerberg, Zürich
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Li C, Tropak MB, Gerlai R, Clapoff S, Abramow-Newerly W, Trapp B, Peterson A, Roder J. Myelination in the absence of myelin-associated glycoprotein. Nature 1994; 369:747-50. [PMID: 7516497 DOI: 10.1038/369747a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 288] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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The hypothesis that myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG) initiates myelin formation is based in part on observations that MAG has an adhesive role in interactions between oligodendrocytes and neurons. Furthermore, the over- or underexpression of MAG in transfected Schwann cells in vitro leads to accelerated myelination or hypomyelination, respectively. Here we test this idea by creating a null mutation in the mag locus and deriving mice that are totally deficient in MAG expression at the RNA and protein level. In adult mutant animals the degree of myelination and its compaction are normal, whereas the organization of the periaxonal region is partially impaired. Mutant animals show a subtle intention tremor. Our findings do not support the widely held view that MAG is critical for myelin formation but rather indicate that MAG is necessary for maintenance of the cytoplasmic collar and periaxonal space of myelinated fibres.
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- C Li
- Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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The GenS3 and B11F7 monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) have been widely used for biochemical and immunocytochemical experiments on myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG), a cell adhesion molecule mediating the interaction between myelinating glia and axons. We have mapped the epitopes to within several amino acids on Ig domain 2 (D2) (amino acids 167-77) and domain 4 (D4) (amino acids 375-388) for GenS3 and B11F7, respectively. Domain deletion and substitution mutants of the MAG cDNA were first used to map the epitopes to a given domain. In the cases of GenS3, insertion mutants were used to resolve the epitope to a small region of D2. For the B11F7 epitope, a novel technique combining PCR and in vitro transcription and translation was used to generate small C-terminal deletions and map the epitope to 13 amino acids. Then, inhibition by peptides corresponding to the GenS3 (ELRPELSWLGHE; amino acids 167-177) and B11F7 (QLELPAVTPEDDGE; amino acids 375-388) epitopes was used to confirm the position of the epitopes based on the mutant data. Interestingly, the GenS3 epitope maps to a region predicted to be sequestered within the hydrophobic core of D2. This is consistent with the inability of GenS3 to recognize the epitope in native MAG; GenS3 epitope recognition occurs only in denatured MAG, where the epitope is more accessible. With the definition of the GenS3 and B11F7 epitopes, these antibodies will be useful for further structure-function studies on MAG.
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- M B Tropak
- Division of Molecular Immunology and Neurobiology, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Dulac C, Tropak MB, Cameron-Curry P, Rossier J, Marshak DR, Roder J, Le Douarin NM. Molecular characterization of the Schwann cell myelin protein, SMP: structural similarities within the immunoglobulin superfamily. Neuron 1992; 8:323-34. [PMID: 1739462 DOI: 10.1016/0896-6273(92)90298-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The Schwann cell myelin protein (SMP), previously defined in quail and chick by a monoclonal antibody, is in vivo exclusively expressed by myelinating and nonmyelinating Schwann cells and oligodendrocytes. The isolation of the complete nucleotide sequence of SMP is reported here. The predicted polypeptide chain reveals that SMP is a transmembrane molecule of the immunoglobulin superfamily showing sequence similarities with several surface glycoproteins expressed in the nervous and immune systems. In spite of a 43.5% overall sequence identity between rat myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG) and quail SMP, SMP does not seem to be the avian homolog of MAG, since their expression, regulation, and functions are significantly different. Unusual sequence arrangements shared by SMP, MAG, and two lymphoid antigens suggest the existence of a particular subgroup in the immunoglobulin superfamily.
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- C Dulac
- Institut d'Embryologie du CNRS et du College de France, Nogent-sur-Marne
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Johnson PW, Abramow-Newerly W, Seilheimer B, Sadoul R, Tropak MB, Arquint M, Dunn RJ, Schachner M, Roder JC. Recombinant myelin-associated glycoprotein confers neural adhesion and neurite outgrowth function. Neuron 1989; 3:377-85. [PMID: 2484339 DOI: 10.1016/0896-6273(89)90262-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 165] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG) cDNA clones for the small (p67) and large (p72) forms were expressed in heterologous cells. Purified recombinant MAG protein was incorporated into fluorescent liposomes, and both forms were shown to bind predominantly to neurites in DRG or spinal cord cultures. This adhesion was completely blocked by Fab fragments of monoclonal anti-MAG antibody. Liposomes prepared with the control protein glycophorin or no protein failed to bind neurites. Small cerebellar neurons, which are not myelinated in vivo, failed to bind MAG liposomes. In a second test of function, p67 MAG-transfected fibroblasts were markedly enhanced in their ability to promote DRG neurite extension over a 2 day culture period compared with control fibroblasts not expressing MAG. Neurite extension was blocked by anti-MAG antibodies. These results show that both forms of MAG can facilitate the interactions between glial cells and neurites that ultimately lead to myelin formation.
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- P W Johnson
- Department of Medical Genetics, University of Toronto, Canada
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Myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG) is expressed on the surface of glial cells and is thought to act as a glial-neuronal adhesion molecule during early stages in the myelination process. Sequencing of several cDNA clones predicted the existence of two classes of MAG mRNAs which differ in the presence or absence of a 45 nucleotide insert near the 3' end. These two mRNAs are sufficient to encode the two MAG proteins previously described (p67MAG and p72MAG) and show that they differ only in their carboxyl terminal regions. The results of RNAse protection experiments reported here confirm the existence of two mRNAs for MAG which arise by alternative splicing of exon 12, as shown by Lai et al. Our results show that the p72MAG mRNA is expressed during the time of active myelin formation in the CNS, reaching a peak by post-natal day 22 and thereafter declining to adult levels by day 62. Conversely, p67MAG mRNA is produced as the minor species during myelin formation, but becomes the predominant form in adult brain. Cultures of oligodendrocytes express both forms of MAG. In the PNS, mRNA coding for p67MAG is predominant throughout development, reaching peak levels at day 6-10, whereas p72MAG mRNA is a very minor species. Alternative splicing also occurs at the 5' terminus. One form of mRNA lacking exon 2 from the 5' non-coding region is predominant in PNS, whereas mRNA containing exon 2 predominates in the CNS. Therefore, at least two and possibly four different mRNA species encode MAG. These results confirm the hypothesis that the two forms of MAG (p67 and p72) are generated by alternative splicing and show that each form is differentially regulated during development in the CNS and PNS.
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- M B Tropak
- Division of Molecular Immunology and Neurobiology, Mt. Sinai Hospital Research Institute, Toronto, Ont., Canada
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Catalase is a tetrameric hemoprotein which degrades H2O2. Recombinant phage clones containing the human catalase gene have been isolated and characterized. The gene is 34 kb long and is split into 13 exons. The precise size and location of the exons has been determined. In addition, essentially full length catalase cDNA clones have been isolated and sequenced and used to tentatively identify the 5'-end of the gene. This assignment, if correct, predicts that the region upstream of the gene does not contain a TATA box. This region is GC rich (67%) and contains several CCAAT and GGGCGG sequences which may form part of the promoter. Translation of the catalase mRNA appears to begin immediately upstream of the amino-terminal Ala residue of catalase.
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