127 results about "Huntingtin" patented technology

The invention discloses a recombinant vector for the knock-in of a human Huntington gene, a construction method of the recombinant vector and application of the recombinant vector in the constructionof a model pig. According to the recombinant vector, a human mutated Huntington exon gene is knocked in a fixed point manner for the first time, a virulence gene is knocked in by virtue of a CRISPR / Cas9 technique for the first time, and a donor vector is optimized by optimizing sfRNA, so that the probability that the gene is knocked into a positive cloned cell is increased; and by combining with apig cell nucleus transplantation technique, the probability that a directly obtained positive cell is knocked into the pig is increased, and a small human Huntington gene knock-in pig is obtained, thereby proving the efficient feasibility of the method for constructing gene modified pigs. The constructed Huntington gene knock-in model pig has behavioral characteristics such as respiratory disturbance and dyskinesia similar to human Huntington diseases, and stable heritable passage can be realized, so that a reliable model is provided for the research of the human Huntington diseases; and thenumber can be guaranteed so as to realize drug screening, gene treatment, stem cell treatment and the like, and the model can be a good human disease model.

Methods and compositions for reducing expression of a mutant huntingtin (mHTT) protein in a cell are provided. Such methods include contacting the cell with an effective amount of a nucleic acid silencing agent targeting a differentiating polymorphism in RNA encoding the mHTT.

Methods and compositions for reducing expression of a mutant huntingtin (mHTT) protein in a cell are provided. Such methods include contacting the cell with an effective amount of a nucleic acid silencing agent targeting a differentiating polymorphism in RNA encoding the mHTT.

This invention provides a method of treating a patient afflicted with a neurodegenerative disorder, e.g., Huntington's disease, comprising administering to the patient rasagiline as an add-on therapy to or in combination with pridopidine. This invention also provides a package and a pharmaceutical composition comprising rasagiline and pridopidine for treating a patient afflicted with a neurodegenerative disorder. This invention also provides rasagiline for use as an add-on therapy or in combination with pridopidine in treating a patient afflicted with a neurodegenerative disorder. This invention further provides use of rasagiline and pridopidine in the preparation of a combination for treating a patient afflicted with a neurodegenerative disorder.

A treatment of Huntington's disease (HD) using the Clustered-Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) system. This technology offers the possibility to design a small RNA (sgRNA), which is incorporated into a CRISPR-associated protein (Cas9) to recognize and induce DNA double-strand breaks at a specific target location. In the context of HD, this allows to block the expression of the mutant huntingtin or repair the CAG expansion causing the disease.

The present invention relates to novel compositions useful for elucidating the onset or progress of diseases such as Huntington's disease, that are associated with the formation of fibrils or protein aggregates. Further, the present invention relates to methods for monitoring formation of fibrils or protein aggregates as well as to methods for identifying inhibitors of fibril or protein aggregate formation. Additionally, the invention relates to inhibitors of the formation of fibrils or protein aggregates identified by the method of the invention as well as to pharmaceutical compositions that include the inhibitors.

The drug action mechanisms and core techniques of the present invention are summarized in figure 1. Specifically, the invention provides malignant denatured proteins, such as mutant Huntingtin proteinor alpha-synuclein, stick together to grow into oligomer aggregates (1, 2), fibrillar aggregates (3), and ultimately inclusion bodies (4). Young neuronal cells produce a large quantity of Nt-Arg through N-terminal arginylation (5) of endoplasmic reticulum chaperones, such as BiP, and thereafter, arginylated BiP (R-BiP) comes into the cytoplasm and binds with denatured proteins (6). Nt-Arg of R-BiP, as a ligand, binds with the ZZ domain of p62 (7) to induce the structural activation of p62 (8) while the ordinarily closed inactive form of p62 is changed with an open form thereof, and thus PB1 and LC3-binding domains are exposed. On the basis of oligomerization (9) by the PB1 domain, p62 binds with the denatured protein aggregates to be concentrated to autophagically degradable aggregates, that is, p62 bodies (10). Thereafter, p62 completes autophagy targeting (11) and lysosomal proteolysis through binding with LC3 protruding on the autophagosomal membranes. In young neuronal cells, theautophagic proteolysis occurring through steps 5-11 is strong, and thus the cytotoxic protein aggregates (1-5) do not accumulate, but in aged neuronal cells, the autophagic proteolysis occurring through steps 5-11 is weakened, and thus the protein aggregates (1-5) accumulate, resulting in a vicious cycle. The present invention attempts to effectively remove Huntingtin and alpha-synuclein protein aggregates and the like by artificially activating p62 using low-mass ligands of the p62 ZZ domain (12, 13). Specifically, p62 binding the ligands through step 12 promotes p62-R-BiP-denatured protein oligomerization (9) and autophagy aggregate formation (10). In addition, the ligand-62 conjugates step 13 act as autophagy activators (14), to promote LC3 synthesis, the conversion of LC3-I into LC3-II, and the like, thereby promoting the formation of autophagosomes (15).

The invention features compositions and methods comprising at least one compound selected from a proteasomal inhibitor, an autophagy inhibitor, a lysosomal inhibitor, an inhibitor of protein transport from the ER to the Golgi, an Hsp90 chaperone inhibitor, a heat shock response activator, a glycosidase inhibitor or histone deacetylase inhibitor that are useful for treating or preventing a protein conformation disease in a subject by correcting misfolded proteins in vivo. The compositions and methods can further comprise an 11-cis-retinal or 9-cis-retinal compound. Examples of protein conformation disorders and / or diseases may include retinitis pigmentosa, age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma, corneal dystrophies, retinoschises, Stargardt's disease, autosomal dominant druzen, Best's macular dystrophy, al -antitrypsin deficiency, cystic fibrosis, Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, cancer and / or Jacob-Creutzfeld disease.

The invention relates to an application of an alfuzosin compound in prevention or treatment of Alzheimer's disease and related diseases, and belongs to the technical field of medicines. The alfuzosincompound has the effects of improving mitochondrial metabolism, degrading accumulation of various pathological proteins and improving vascular endothelial cell functions. The invention provides a newpharmaceutical application of the alfuzosin compound. The new pharmaceutical application can provide a new choice for treatment of clinical related diseases. Alfuzosin, an alfuzosin isomers, TZ-md andAZ-md can be beneficially applied to Alzheimer's disease and related complications, such as seeing and hearing impairment, anemia, blood pressure instability, insomnia, depression, limb dysfunction,malnutrition, weakness, dizziness, gait instability and the like, and diseases related to protein accumulation and metabolic disorder, such as Huntington's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, dementia with Lewis bodies, multi-system atrophy and the like.

The present invention relates to novel inhibitors of prolyl endopeptidase of formula (1)wherein I, A, X, Y and Z are specified in the description. The compounds are useful for the treatment of diseases such as mild cognitive impairment (MCI), Alzheimer's disease, Down Syndrome, Parkinson disease and Chorea Huntington.

Disclosed are methods for identifying compounds that modulate huntingtin mediated impairment of protein degradation pathways. Compounds identified by such screens can be used as candidate drugs for the treatment of prevention of polyglutamine diseases such as Huntington's Disease.

The invention provides an ependymin-like protein derived a mammal, or its partial peptide or its precursor protein, or a salt thereof; a signal peptide; a DNA coding for the protein, etc. a recombinant vector; a transformant; a method of producing the protein; a pharmaceutical composition comprising the protein, etc. or DNA, an antibody against the protein, etc.; and a method for screening and a screening kit for compounds promoting the function of the protein. The protein, its partial peptide or a salt thereof has physiological activities such as a nerve-extending or nerve-regenerating activity, a gliacyte stimulating activity, and so on. The protein, etc. or the DNA is useful as a therapeutic or prophylactic agent for Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), dementia or cerebellar degeneration. The antibody against the protein, etc. can be used in the assay of the protein, etc. in a test sample. Furthermore, the protein, etc. is useful as a screening reagent for compounds or their salts capable of promoting the function of the protein.

The present invention is directed to compositions, methods and kits for regulation of gene therapies for Huntington's Disease, including, without limitation, reversible gene therapies and allele-specific therapies.

The present invention relates to a vector for use in the treatment of Huntington's disease, which vector comprises a cholesterol 24-hydroxylase encoding nucleic acid.