A bioisostere of Dimebon/Latrepirdine delays the onset and slows the progression of pathology in FUS transgenic mice

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AIMS: To assess effects of DF402, a bioisostere of Dimebon/Latrepirdine, on the disease progression in the transgenic model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) caused by expression of pathogenic truncated form of human FUS protein.

METHODS: Mice received DF402 from the age of 42 days and the onset of clinical signs, the disease duration and animal lifespan were monitored for experimental and control animals, and multiple parameters of their gait were assessed throughout the pre-symptomatic stage using CatWalk system followed by a bioinformatic analysis. RNA-seq was used to compare the spinal cord transcriptomes of wild-type, untreated, and DF402-treated FUS transgenic mice.

RESULTS: DF402 delays the onset and slows the progression of pathology. We developed a CatWalk analysis protocol that allows detection of gait changes in FUS transgenic mice and the effect of DF402 on their gait already at early pre-symptomatic stage. At this stage, a limited number of genes significantly change expression in transgenic mice and for 60% of these genes, DF402 treatment causes the reversion of the expression pattern.

CONCLUSION: DF402 slows down the disease progression in the mouse model of ALS, which is consistent with previously reported neuroprotective properties of Dimebon and its other bioisosteres. These results suggest that these structures can be considered as lead compounds for further optimization to obtain novel medicines that might be used as components of complex ALS therapy.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:27

Enthalten in:

CNS neuroscience & therapeutics - 27(2021), 7 vom: 06. Juli, Seite 765-775

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Chaprov, Kirill [VerfasserIn]
Rezvykh, Alexander [VerfasserIn]
Funikov, Sergei [VerfasserIn]
Ivanova, Tamara A [VerfasserIn]
Lysikova, Ekaterina A [VerfasserIn]
Deykin, Alexei V [VerfasserIn]
Kukharsky, Michail S [VerfasserIn]
Yu Aksinenko, Alexey [VerfasserIn]
Bachurin, Sergey O [VerfasserIn]
Ninkina, Natalia [VerfasserIn]
Buchman, Vladimir L [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

ALS mouse model
Drug effects
FUS
FUS protein, human
Gamma-carbolines
Indoles
Journal Article
Latrepirdine
Motor neuron disease
OD9237K1Z6
RNA-Binding Protein FUS
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
TLS

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Date Completed 01.02.2022

Date Revised 01.02.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/cns.13637

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM323107893