ArticleThe Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics2016
Optimization of Aryl Amides that Extend Survival in Prion-Infected Mice.
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- The protein disulfide isomerase P4HB/PDIA1 modulates cellular and misfolded forms of the prion protein.PLoS pathogens · 2026Article
- Oligosaccharyltransferase (OST) complex inhibition effectively treats rodent and human prions.PLoS pathogens · 2026Article
- Treatment with efavirenz extends survival in a Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease model by regulating brain cholesterol metabolism.JCI insight · 2025Article
- In vivo base editing extends lifespan of a humanized mouse model of prion disease.Nature medicine · 2025Article
- Therapeutic effect of curcumin derivative GT863 on prion-infected mice.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Genetically engineered cellular models of prion propagation.Cell and tissue research · 2023Review
- Therapeutic Trial of anle138b in Mouse Models of Genetic Prion Disease.Journal of virology · 2023Article
- Alternating anti-prion regimens reduce combination drug resistance but do not further extend survival in scrapie-infected mice.The Journal of general virology · 2021Article
- Human cerebral organoids as a therapeutic drug screening model for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Prion protein lowering is a disease-modifying therapy across prion disease stages, strains and endpoints.Nucleic acids research · 2020Article
- Administration of FK506 from Late Stage of Disease Prolongs Survival of Human Prion-Inoculated Mice.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2020Article
- Multimodal small-molecule screening for human prion protein binders.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2020Article
- Immunotherapy against Prion Disease.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- Antisense oligonucleotides extend survival of prion-infected mice.JCI insight · 2019Article
- Engineering a murine cell line for the stable propagation of hamster prions.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2019Article
- A simple in vitro assay for assessing the efficacy, mechanisms and kinetics of anti-prion fibril compounds.Prion · 2018Article
- Strains of Pathological Protein Aggregates in Neurodegenerative Diseases.Discoveries (Craiova, Romania) · 2017Review
- Developing Therapeutics for PrP Prion Diseases.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine · 2017Review
- Integrated Organotypic Slice Cultures and RT-QuIC (OSCAR) Assay: Implications for Translational Discovery in Protein Misfolding Diseases.Scientific reports · 2017Article
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Abstract
Developing therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) prevalent in the aging population remains a daunting challenge. With the growing understanding that many NDs progress by conformational self-templating of specific proteins, the prototypical prion diseases offer a platform for ND drug discovery. We evaluated high-throughput screening hits with the aryl amide scaffold and explored the structure-activity relationships around three series differing in their N-aryl core: benzoxazole, benzothiazole, and cyano. Potent anti-prion compounds were advanced to pharmacokinetic studies, and the resulting brain-penetrant leads from each series, together with a related N-aryl piperazine lead, were escalated to long-term dosing and efficacy studies. Compounds from each of the four series doubled the survival of mice infected with a mouse-passaged prion strain. Treatment with aryl amides altered prion strain properties, as evidenced by the distinct patterns of neuropathological deposition of prion protein and associated astrocytic gliosis in the brain; however, none of the aryl amide compounds resulted in drug-resistant prion strains, in contrast to previous studies on compounds with the 2-aminothiazole (2-AMT) scaffold. As seen with 2-AMTs and other effective anti-prion compounds reported to date, the novel aryl amides reported here were ineffective in prolonging the survival of transgenic mice infected with human prions. Most encouraging is our discovery that aryl amides show that the development of drug resistance is not an inevitable consequence of efficacious anti-prion therapeutics.
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