ReviewCurrent opinion in chemical biology2023
Pharmacological stabilization of the native state of full-length immunoglobulin light chains to treat light chain amyloidosis.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.
- Small Molecule Stabilization of Diverse Amyloidogenic Immunoglobulin Light Chains Revealed by Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry.Journal of molecular biology · 2026Article
- Small molecule stabilization of diverse amyloidogenic immunoglobulin light chains revealed by hydrogen-deuterium exchange mass spectrometry.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Investigating Local Sequence-Structural Attributes of Amyloidogenic Light Chain Variable Domains.Proteins · 2025Article
- Heterohybridomas producing human immunoglobulin light chains using CD138-selected bone marrow cells.Biochemistry and biophysics reports · 2025Article
- Discovery of Potent and Selective Pyridone-Based Small Molecule Kinetic Stabilizers of Amyloidogenic Immunoglobulin Light Chains.Journal of medicinal chemistry · 2024Article
- Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry Reveals Mechanistic Insights into RNA Oligonucleotide-Mediated Inhibition of TDP-43 Aggregation.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2024Article
- Tracing genetic diversity captures the molecular basis of misfolding disease.Nature communications · 2024Article
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Abstract
Immunoglobulin light chain amyloidosis (AL) is a cancer of plasma cells that secrete unstable full-length immunoglobulin light chains. These light chains misfold and aggregate, often with aberrant endoproteolysis, leading to organ toxicity. AL is currently treated by pharmacological elimination of the clonal plasma cells. Since it remains difficult to completely kill these cells in the majority of patients, we seek a complementary drug that inhibits light chain aggregation, which should diminish organ toxicity. We discovered a small-molecule binding site on full-length immunoglobulin light chains by structurally characterizing hit stabilizers emerging from a high-throughput screen seeking small molecules that protect full-length light chains from conformational excursion-linked endoproteolysis. The x-ray crystallographic characterization of 7 structurally distinct hit native-state stabilizers provided a structure-based blueprint, reviewed herein, to design more potent stabilizers. This approach enabled us to transform hits with micromolar affinity into stabilizers with nanomolar dissociation constants that potently prevent light chain aggregation.
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