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ArticleScientific reports2022

Fragment-based virtual screening identifies a first-in-class preclinical drug candidate for Huntington's disease.

Simon Marius Galyan, Collin Y Ewald, Xavier Jalencas, Shyam Masrani, Selin Meral, Jordi Mestres

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Article in Scientific reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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6 authors.

Simon Marius GalyanGalyan Bio Inc, 440 N Wolfe Road, Sunnyvale, CA, 94085, USA. marius@galyan.bio.
Collin Y EwaldLaboratory of Extracellular Matrix Regeneration, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, Institute of Translational Medicine, ETH Zürich, 8603, Schwerzenbach, Switzerland.
Xavier JalencasChemotargets SL, Parc Científic de Barcelona, 08028, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
Shyam MasraniMedicxi Ventures, 25 Great Pulteney St, London, W1F 9NH, UK.
Selin MeralBiomedical Center Munich of the University of Munich, Großhaderner Str. 9, 82152, Planegg, Germany.
Jordi MestresChemotargets SL, Parc Científic de Barcelona, 08028, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

Funding

EIT Health 2017 HS PoC GER03Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung SNF P3 Project 190072
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Currently, there are no therapies available to modify the disease progression of Huntington's disease (HD). Recent clinical trial failures of antisense oligonucleotide candidates in HD have demonstrated the need for new therapeutic approaches. Here, we developed a novel in-silico fragment scanning approach across the surface of mutant huntingtin (mHTT) polyQ and predicted four hit compounds. Two rounds of compound analoging using a strategy of testing structurally similar compounds in an affinity assay rapidly identified GLYN122. In vitro, GLYN122 directly binds and reduces mHTT and induces autophagy in neurons. In vivo, our results confirm that GLYN122 can reduce mHTT in the cortex and striatum of the R/2 mouse model of Huntington's disease and subsequently improve motor symptoms. Thus, the in-vivo pharmacology profile of GLYN122 is a potential new preclinical candidate for the treatment of HD.

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Huntington DiseaseAnimalsCorpus StriatumDisease Models, AnimalMiceNeostriatumNeurons

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PMID36385140
PMCPMC9668931

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