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    • 9. 发明申请
    • Prevention and Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases Through Autophagy Activity Mediated by A Synthetic Ligand or Arginylated BIP Binding to the P62 ZZ Domain
    • US20180243244A1
    • 2018-08-30
    • US15753026
    • 2016-07-15
    • Seoul National University R&DB FoundationKorea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology
    • Yong Tae KwonBo Yeon KimHyunjoo ChaYoung Dong YooJi-eun Yu
    • A61K31/138A61P25/28
    • A61K31/138A61K31/122A61K31/13A61K38/05A61K38/10A61K38/16A61P25/28Y02A50/401
    • The pharmacokinetics and key technologies of the present invention are summarized in FIG. 1. Particularly, malignant misfolded proteins such as mutant huntingtin and alpha-synuclein are coagulated and grow into oligomeric coagulum ({circle around (1)}, {circle around (2)}, fibrillar coagulum ({circle around (3)}) and eventually inclusion body ({circle around (4)}). Young neurons produce a large amount of Nt-Arg through N-terminal arginylation ({circle around (5)}) of vesicle chaperones such as BiP secreted into the cytoplasm, and then arginylated BiP (R-BiP) is secreted binds to the misfolded proteins ({circle around (6)}). As a ligand, the Nt-Arg of R-BiP binds to the p62 ZZ domain ({circle around (7)}), and the normally inactivated closed form of p62 is changed to an open form, leading to structural activation ({circle around (8)}). As a result, PB1 and LC3-binding domains are exposed. The PB1 domain induces oligomerization ({circle around (9)}), leading to the concentration as a p62 body ({circle around (10)}) that is a coagulum capable of being degraded by autophagy. Then, p62 binds to LC3, which is protruding from the autopagosomal membranes, leading to the completion of autophagy targeting ({circle around (11)}) and lysosomal proteolysis. Since autophagy proteolysis including steps ({circle around (5)})-({circle around (11)}) is strong in young neurons, cytotoxic protein coagulums ({circle around (1)}-{circle around (5)}) do not accumulate. However in aged neurons, autophagy proteolysis including steps {circle around (5)}-{circle around (11)} is weakened, and protein coagulums ({circle around (1)}-{circle around (5)}) accumulate and become cytotoxic. In this invention, p62 is intentionally activated ({circle around (12)}, {circle around (13)}) by using low mass ligands of the p62 ZZ domain to effectively remove huntingtin and alpha-synuclein protein coagulums. Particularly, in step {circle around (12)}, p62 ligated with a ligand accelerates the oligomerization of p62-R-BiP-misfolded protein ({circle around (9)}) and the formation of autophagy coagulum ({circle around (10)}). In step ({circle around (13)}), the ligand-p62 conjugate acts as an autophagy activator ({circle around (14)}) to induce the synthesis of LC3 and the conversion of LC3-I into LC3-II in order to accelerate the formation of autophagosomes ({circle around (15)}).