Intranasal gene delivery for Alzheimer’s disease

鼻内基因递送治疗阿尔茨海默病

基本信息

批准号：
10308277
负责人：
Mansoor M Amiji
金额：
$ 44.51万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2021-08-15 至 2024-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10308277
关键词：
APP-PS1 Affect Agranulocytosis Alzheimer&apos s Disease Alzheimer&apos s disease brain Alzheimer&apos s disease model Amyloid beta-Protein Area Arthritis Auditory Biodistribution Brain Cardiomyopathies Cations Chelating Agents Clinical Deposition Development Diabetes Mellitus Diet Disease Dysmyelopoietic Syndromes Encapsulated Erythrocytes Exhibits Formulation Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage Gene Combinations Gene Delivery Gene Silencing Genes Hemoglobinopathies Hereditary hemochromatosis Huntington Disease Hypertriglyceridemia Impairment Infection Inflammatory Intestines Intranasal Administration Iron Iron Chelating Agents Iron Metabolism Disorders Iron Overload Kidney Failure Label Liposomes Liver Cirrhosis Liver Fibrosis Luciferases Mammals Memory impairment Messenger RNA Metabolic Diseases Metals Molecular Mus Nanotechnology Nasal Epithelium Nerve Degeneration Neurodegenerative Disorders Neurons Neutropenia Nucleic Acids Oncogenic Oxidative Stress Parkinson Disease Patients Production Property Proteins Reporter Genes Risk Factors Route Safety Sickle Cell Anemia Site Small Interfering RNA Symptoms TNF gene Tachycardia Testing Thalassemia Therapeutic Tissues Toxic effect Toxicity Tests Transfection Transgenes Treatment Efficacy Visual Western Blotting base cytokine efficacy evaluation gene therapy improved in vivo interest iron metabolism macrophage metal transporting protein 1 microcytic anemia molecular phenotype motor deficit mouse model nanoparticle nervous system disorder neurobehavioral neuroinflammation novel novel therapeutic intervention oxidative damage protein expression therapeutic target transgene delivery uptake

项目摘要

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Iron overload disorders, including hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) and transfusional hemoglobinopathies (e.g. thalassemia, myelodysplastic syndrome, sickle cell anemia), affect tens of millions of people worldwide. Iron overload is a well-defined risk factor for the development and progression of several metabolic diseases, including cardiomyopathy, liver cirrhosis, arthritis, diabetes and hypertriglyceridemia. Importantly, increased iron stores in the brain are closely associated with neurodegenerative diseases (e.g. Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases). Although iron chelators are efficient to remove excess iron from the body, they exhibit significant toxicities, including gastrointestinal bleeding, agranulocytosis, infection, tachycardia, kidney failure and liver fibrosis. Moreover, there is no chelator that effectively restores inappropriately high iron in the brain of patients with neurodegenerative diseases. Hence, there is an unmet need for a new therapeutic strategy by controlling the transport of iron in the brain. Ferroportin (FPN) is the primary iron transporter responsible for the export of intracellular iron. Since FPN is also essential for intestinal iron uptake from diet as well as iron release from the macrophages to recycle the metal for red blood cell production, tissue-specific modulation of FPN can be an excellent therapeutic target to modify brain iron transport with minimal systemic effects. Gene therapy can potentially protect against a number of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Huntington’s diseases, by delivering nucleic acid encoding for therapeutic molecules. Conversely, gene silencing selectively decreases the levels of unwanted molecules, such as oncogenic proteins and pro-inflammatory cytokines. We have recently demonstrated that intranasal administration of mRNA in nanoparticles significantly up-regulated protein expression of the reporter genes, such as luciferase and GFP, in the brain. These results suggested that in vivo gene delivery can be exploited in the area of iron disorders, and further prompted us to inquire if a direct delivery of FPN transgene to the brain (site of action) via the intranasal route can mobilize brain iron stores, while avoiding off-target effects. Thus, our hypothesis is that intranasal administration of FPN mRNA in cationic liposomes (CL) enhances brain FPN expression, increases efflux of iron out of the brain and ameliorates iron-induced neuronal impairments. The specific aims are focused on 1) developing and validating FPN transgene/CL to increase brain FPN levels and iron efflux and 2) evaluating the therapeutic efficacy of FPN transgene/CL using a mouse model of iron-associated Alzheimer’s disease. Overall, this strategy provides a selective, effective and safe approach for gene therapy in the area of iron-catalyzed neurodegenerative and other types of neurological disorders.

项目概要/摘要铁超载疾病，包括遗传性血色素沉着病 (HH) 和输血性血红蛋白病（例如，血红蛋白病）地中海贫血、骨髓增生异常综合征、镰状细胞性贫血）影响着全世界数千万人。超负荷是多种代谢疾病发生和进展的明确危险因素，包括心肌病、肝硬化、关节炎、糖尿病和高甘油三酯血症。重要的是，铁含量增加。大脑中的储存与神经退行性疾病（例如阿尔茨海默病、帕金森病和虽然铁螯合剂可以有效去除体内多余的铁，但它们表现出亨廷顿氏病。显着的毒性，包括胃肠道出血、粒细胞缺乏症、感染、心动过速、肾衰竭此外，没有螯合剂可以有效恢复大脑中不适当的高铁。因此，对于神经退行性疾病患者的新治疗策略的需求尚未得到满足。铁转运蛋白 (FPN) 是负责铁在大脑中转运的主要蛋白。由于 FPN 对于肠道从饮食中吸收铁以及铁释放也至关重要。 FPN 的组织特异性调节可以从巨噬细胞中回收金属用于红细胞生产基因治疗是改变脑铁转运的绝佳治疗靶点，且全身效应最小。可能预防多种神经退行性疾病，包括阿尔茨海默病、帕金森病和亨廷顿氏病，通过离线传递编码治疗分子的核酸，实现基因沉默。选择性降低不需要的分子的水平，例如致癌蛋白和促炎蛋白我们最近证明，鼻内施用纳米粒子中的 mRNA 显着。这些结果导致大脑中荧光素酶和 GFP 等报告基因的蛋白质表达上调。表明体内基因传递可用于导致铁失调的领域，并进一步我们询问通过鼻内途径将 FPN 转基因直接递送至大脑（作用位点）是否可以动员大脑铁储存，同时避免脱靶效应因此，我们的假设是 FPN mRNA 鼻内给药。阳离子脂质体 (CL) 中的 FPN 增强大脑 FPN 表达，增加铁从大脑中的流出，改善铁引起的神经元损伤。具体目标集中在 1) 开发和验证。 FPN 转基因/CL 可增加大脑 FPN 水平和铁流出，2) 评估 FPN 的治疗效果总体而言，该策略提供了一种使用铁相关阿尔茨海默病小鼠模型的转基因/CL。在铁催化的神经退行性和神经退行性疾病领域进行选择性、有效和安全的基因治疗方法其他类型的神经系统疾病。