A potent MAPK13-14 inhibitor prevents airway inflammation and mucus production

Common respiratory diseases continue to represent a major public health problem, and much of the morbidity and mortality is due to airway inflammation and mucus production. Previous studies indicated a role for mitogen-activated protein kinase 14 (MAPK14) in this type of disease, but clinical trials are unsuccessful to date. Our previous work identified a related but distinct kinase known as MAPK13 that is activated in respiratory airway diseases and is required for mucus production in human cell-culture models. Support for MAPK13 function in these models came from effectiveness of MAPK13 versus MAPK14 gene-knockdown and from first-generation MAPK13-14 inhibitors. However, these first-generation inhibitors were incompletely optimized for blocking activity and were untested in vivo. Here we report the next generation and selection of a potent MAPK13-14 inhibitor (designated NuP-3) that more effectively downregulates type-2 cytokine-stimulated mucus production in air-liquid interface and organoid cultures of human airway epithelial cells. We also show that NuP-3 treatment prevents respiratory airway inflammation and mucus production in new minipig models of airway disease triggered by type-2 cytokine challenge or respiratory viral infection. The results thereby provide the next advance in developing a small-molecule kinase inhibitor to address key features of respiratory disease.NEW & NOTEWORTHY This study describes the discovery of a potent mitogen-activated protein kinase 13-14 (MAPK13-14) inhibitor and its effectiveness in models of respiratory airway disease. The findings thereby provide a scheme for pathogenesis and therapy of lung diseases [e.g., asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), Covid-19, postviral, and allergic respiratory disease] and related conditions that implicate MAPK13-14 function. The findings also refine a hypothesis for epithelial and immune cell functions in respiratory disease that features MAPK13 as a possible component of this disease process.

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UpdateOf: bioRxiv. 2023 Oct 04;:. - PMID 37292761

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:325

Enthalten in:

American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology - 325(2023), 6 vom: 01. Dez., Seite L726-L740

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Keeler, Shamus P [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Kangyun [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Yong [VerfasserIn]
Mao, Dailing [VerfasserIn]
Li, Ming [VerfasserIn]
Iberg, Courtney A [VerfasserIn]
Austin, Stephen R [VerfasserIn]
Glaser, Samuel A [VerfasserIn]
Yantis, Jennifer [VerfasserIn]
Podgorny, Stephanie [VerfasserIn]
Brody, Steven L [VerfasserIn]
Chartock, Joshua R [VerfasserIn]
Han, Zhenfu [VerfasserIn]
Byers, Derek E [VerfasserIn]
Romero, Arthur G [VerfasserIn]
Holtzman, Michael J [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Asthma
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
Cytokines
Drug discovery
EC 2.7.1.-
EC 2.7.11.24
Journal Article
Minipig model
Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 13
Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 14
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Respiratory viral infection

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Date Completed 15.11.2023

Date Revised 29.12.2023

published: Print-Electronic

UpdateOf: bioRxiv. 2023 Oct 04;:. - PMID 37292761

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1152/ajplung.00183.2023

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM363402675