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Compounds and compositions for use as modulators of tau aggregation and alleviation of tauopathies

a tauopathies and modulator technology, applied in the direction of heterocyclic compound active ingredients, biocide, amide active ingredients, etc., can solve the problems of neurotoxicity of protein aggregates and overstabilization of microtubules, and achieve the effect of reducing tauopathies

Inactive Publication Date: 2014-01-02
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This patent describes a group of compounds that can prevent the formation of harmful aggregates of a protein called tau, which is associated with Alzheimer's disease. These compounds can be used to treat or prevent the disease by reducing the buildup of tau aggregates in the brain. The compounds have a specific formula and can be easily identified using a search tool. The technical effect of this patent is to provide new compounds that can help in the development of drugs for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.

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Protein aggregates have been found to be toxic to neurons.
It is presently not known if tau is a causative factor in disease but it is likely that either a loss or gain for function results in pathology.
More of the 4R isoform with an extra repeat of the microtubule binding region may lead to overstabilization of the microtubules resulting in disease.

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Compounds of this Invention are Potent Disrupters of Tau Aggregates

[0074]The compounds set out above were found to be potent in the dissolution / disruption / inhibition of Tau tangles or Tau aggregates. In a set of studies, the efficacy of the compounds to cause a dissolution / disassembly / disruption of pre-formed Tau aggregates was analyzed.

Part A—Thioflavin T Fluorometry Data

[0075]Thioflavin T fluorometry was used in this study to determine the effects of the compounds compared to a negative control peptide. Thioflavin T binds specifically to aggregated Tau or Tau tangles, and this binding produces a fluorescence enhancement at 485 nm that is directly proportional to the amount of aggregated Tau. The higher the fluorescence, the greater the amount of aggregated Tau.

[0076]In this study, Tau-441 was pre-fibrillized or aggregated by combining with Heparin (SIGMA) at 1:1 wt / wt, then incubation at 37° C. and shaking at 1400 rpm for 8 days. Following the pre-fibrillization, 30 μg of aggregat...

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Cloning of Tau Repeat Domains (TauRD) into a Tetracycline-Inducible Mammalian Expression Vector

[0078]Total RNA was isolated from human adult non-demented frontal tissues obtained at autopsy from the University of Washington ADRC Brain Bank and immediately frozen at 80° C. Single stranded cDNA was synthesized using M-MLV Reverse Transcriptase (Invitrogen; Carlsbad, Calif., USA) and random priming with hexameric primers (Invitrogen). All other primers used were also synthesized by Invitrogen. Tetracycline-inducible mammalian expression constructs, pcDNA4 / TO-TauRD, were generated by insertion of cDNA fragments encoding the human tau repeat domain (TauRD; amino acid residues 244-372 in REFSEQ mRNA ENST00000351559) into pcDNA™4 / TO vector (Invitrogen). The vector allows tetracycline-regulated expression of the gene of interest in mammalian host cells when a pcDNA™6 / TR construct (Invitrogen) is also co-expressed.

[0079]The wild type TauRD (TauRDWT) cDNA insert was amplified from human brain...

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Generation of Stable Transfected Inducible TauRD Cell Lines

[0080]Tetracycline-inducible cell lines stably transfected with pcDNA4 / TO-TauRDWT, pcDNA4 / TO-TauRDΔK280, pcDNA4 / TO-TauRDP301S, and pcDNA4 / TO-TauRDP301L were generated to assess TauRD aggregation in cell culture. TREx™-293 cells (Invitrogen; R710-07), modified human embryonic kidney 293 cells (ATCC; CRL-1573) by stable transfection of pcDNA™6 / TR, were employed to generate the TauRD stable cell lines. Both parental cells (TREx™-293 cells) and their derivatives (TREx293-TauRD) (see below) were maintained in culture media supplemented with 5 μg / ml blasticidin for selection of pcDNA6 / TR-containing cells. Cells were routinely cultured in a regular growth media (RGM) that contained Dulbecco's Modified Eagle Medium (DMEM) (Invitrogen) supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum, penicillin (60 units / mL), streptomycin (60 μg / mL) and blasticidin (5) at 37° C. in a cell culture incubator supplemented with 5% CO2.

[0081]To generate stable c...

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Abstract

This invention relates to the use of bis- and tris-dihydroxyaryl compounds as well as sulfonamides, heteroaryls, tricycloalkyl and their analogs and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, for modulating tau aggregation and alleviating tauopathies, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), Pick's disease (PiD), progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), corticobasal degeneration (CBD) and familial frontotemporal dementia / Parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis / Parkinsonism-dementia complex, argyrophilic grain dementia, dementia pugilistic, diffuse neurofibrillary tangles with calcification, progressive subcortical gliosis and tangle only dementia.

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RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application is a divisional of U.S. application Ser. No. 13 / 010,023 filed Jan. 20, 2011 and claims the benefit of priority under 35 USC. §120 to, and is a continuation in part of U.S. application Ser. No. 12 / 269,017 filed Nov. 11, 2008 which is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 10 / 452,851, filed May 30, 2003 now issued U.S. Pat. No. 7,514,583, which claimed priority under 35 USC §119(e) to:[0002](1) U.S. Provisional Application No. 60 / 385,144, filed May 31, 2002,[0003](2) U.S. Provisional Application No. 60 / 409,100, filed Sep. 9, 2002,[0004](3) U.S. Provisional Application No. 60 / 412,272, filed Sep. 20, 2002,[0005](4) U.S. Provisional Application No. 60 / 435,880, filed Dec. 20, 2002, and[0006](5) U.S. Provisional Application No. 60 / 463,104, filed Apr. 14, 2003.[0007]This application also claims priority under 35 USC §119(e) to U.S. Provisional Application No. 61 / 299,005, filed Jan. 28, 2010.[0008]This application claims the benefit of priority...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): C07D249/08C07C237/40C07C275/34C07C307/10C07D235/00C07C69/84
CPCC07D249/08C07D235/00C07C69/84C07C275/34C07C307/10C07C237/40A61K31/05A61K31/164A61K31/167A61K31/18A61K31/415A61K31/4196C07C235/38C07C237/22C07C311/29C07C235/64C07C235/76
Inventor SNOW, ALAN D.HU, QUBAILAKE, THOMASCAM, JUDY
Owner PROTEOTECH
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