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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019

Stabilization of amyloidogenic immunoglobulin light chains by small molecules.

Gareth J Morgan, Nicholas L Yan, David E Mortenson, Enrico Rennella, Joshua M Blundon, Ryan M Gwin, Chung-Yon Lin, Robyn L Stanfield, Steven J Brown, Hugh Rosen and 6 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers.

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41citing papers in PubMed
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

41 citing papers in PubMed, 87 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Gareth J MorganDepartment of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037; gjmorgan@bu.edu jkelly@scripps.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-1275-2010
Nicholas L YanDepartment of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037.
David E MortensonDepartment of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037.
Enrico RennellaDepartment of Molecular Genetics, The University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S1A8, Canada.
Joshua M BlundonDepartment of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037.
Ryan M GwinDepartment of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037.
Chung-Yon LinDepartment of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037.
Robyn L StanfieldDepartment of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037.
Steven J BrownDepartment of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037.
Hugh RosenDepartment of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037.
Timothy P SpicerDepartment of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, FL 33458.
Virneliz Fernandez-VegaDepartment of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, FL 33458.
Giampaolo MerliniDepartment of Molecular Medicine, University of Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
Lewis E KayDepartment of Molecular Genetics, The University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S1A8, Canada.
Ian A WilsonDepartment of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037.
Jeffery W KellyDepartment of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037; gjmorgan@bu.edu jkelly@scripps.edu.
Scripps Research Institute · USUniversity of Toronto · CAUniversity of Pavia · IT

Funding

Support Component D/Vaccine Discovery, Concept to ClinicUM1AI100663 · NIAID · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI BAROUCH, DAN H. · 2012 to 2018
$131.5M
Scripps Translational Science InstituteUL1TR002550 · NCATS · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI TOPOL, ERIC JEFFREY · 2018 to 2022
$28.9M
Probing the Biochemical Mechanisms of Amyloid DiseaseR01DK046335 · NIDDK · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI KELLY, JEFFERY W · 1998 to 2025
$8.8M
Probing the biochemical mechanism of amyloid diseaseR37DK046335 · NIDDK · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI KELLY, JEFFERY W · 2006 to 2015
$5.9M
High-Speed High-Sensitivity Detector for X-ray Micro-Crystallography at GM/CA@APSS10OD012289 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI FISCHETTI, ROBERT F. · 2014 to 2014
$2.0M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR002550NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK046335NIDDK NIH HHS R37 DK046335NIH HHS S10 OD012289
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In Ig light-chain (LC) amyloidosis (AL), the unique antibody LC protein that is secreted by monoclonal plasma cells in each patient misfolds and/or aggregates, a process leading to organ degeneration. As a step toward developing treatments for AL patients with substantial cardiac involvement who have difficulty tolerating existing chemotherapy regimens, we introduce small-molecule kinetic stabilizers of the native dimeric structure of full-length LCs, which can slow or stop the amyloidogenicity cascade at its origin. A protease-coupled fluorescence polarization-based high-throughput screen was employed to identify small molecules that kinetically stabilize LCs. NMR and X-ray crystallographic data demonstrate that at least one structural family of hits bind at the LC-LC dimerization interface within full-length LCs, utilizing variable-domain residues that are highly conserved in most AL patients. Stopping the amyloidogenesis cascade at the beginning is a proven strategy to ameliorate postmitotic tissue degeneration.

Indexed as

AmyloidImmunoglobulin Light ChainsProtein StabilityAmyloidosisHigh-Throughput Screening AssaysHumansKineticsProtein MultimerizationAmyloidImmunoglobulin Light Chainsdimerizationhigh-throughput screenkinetic stabilizerproteotoxicitystructural biology

Identifiers

PMID30971495
PMCPMC6486714
OpenAlexW2939950131

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