A rapid and portable test for home monitoring of phenylalanine levels by patients with phenylketonuria using a blood glucose meter

使用血糖仪在家监测苯丙酮尿症患者苯丙氨酸水平的快速便携式测试

基本信息

批准号：
9346910
负责人：
Tian Lan
金额：
$ 22.35万
依托单位：
GLUCOSENTIENT, INC.
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2017-04-01 至 2019-03-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9346910
关键词：
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项目摘要

Project Summary/Abstract Phenylketonuria (PKU) is a serious inborn metabolic disorder affecting 1 out of every 15,000 children born in the U.S. annually. Characteristic effect of PKU is the impaired capability of the body to convert the amino acid phenylalanine (Phe) to tyrosine and, as a result, Phe level is elevated in the blood stream. While Phe is required for normal growth and brain development, excess Phe leads brain damage and ultimately severe intellectual impairment. The effects of prolonged exposure to Phe is much more pronounced during childhood and pregnancy, resulting in growth retardation and neurological impairment in children, development delay, microcephaly and congenital heart disease in fetuses. Therefore, patients with PKU need carefully control and monitoring of their blood Phe level for their whole lives, especially for infants, children and pregnant women. To control blood Phe levels, a specially designed low Phe diet, which is devoid of protein-containing food, must be followed. Since Phe diet are difficult to follow and prolonged exposure to elevated Phe as well as frequent fluctuation of blood Phe impacts normal growth and brain development, blood Phe levels are routinely monitored for patients with PKU. However, monitoring blood Phe today requires long turn-around time, since blood sample needs to be first collected via a blood drawn or on filter card, then analyzed in a clinical laboratory using costly and sophisticated instrument. Hence, many PKU patients can only maintain a suboptimal blood Phe levels, even they are willing to make dietary adjustment. Therefore, home Phe monitoring providing with immediate test result is imperative to achieve better health outcomes and to avoid neurocognitive issues. Although methods have been reported for monitoring Phe at home, most of them rely on optical detection that is vulnerable to interferences from colored species in clinical samples, or electrochemical detection that uses sophisticated assay methods or highly modified electrochemical detectors, limiting their commercial potentials. Based on this compelling need and our recent discovery that many commercially available Blood Glucose Meters (BGMs) can measure levels of NADH, a cofactor in many enzymatic assays, we propose to repurpose the BGM widely used by diabetics for PKU patients to monitor blood Phe levels. We have developed a technology that allows the direct use of existing glucose test strips for quantification of Phe, via an enzyme phenylalanine dehydrogenase that generates NADH in the presence of Phe. Furthermore, we have developed a customized meter to improve the NADH sensitivity while still using existing glucose test strips. In this Phase I project, we will focus on demonstrating the feasibility by developing a BGM based Phe assay followed by sensor strip development. By leveraging today’s BGM platform, we can drastically reduce the time and cost associated with medical device R&D and scale up production, while delivering an easy-to-use and affordable solution for PKU patients to monitor their Phe levels rapidly at home or at any point of care setting.

项目概要/摘要苯丙酮尿症 (PKU) 是一种严重的先天性代谢紊乱，每 15,000 名出生儿童中就有 1 人受到影响每年在美国，PKU 的典型影响是身体转化氨基酸的能力受损。苯丙氨酸 (Phe) 转化为酪氨酸，因此，血流中的 Phe 水平升高，而 Phe 是必需的。对于正常生长和大脑发育来说，过量的苯丙氨酸会导致脑损伤，并最终导致严重的智力障碍长期接触 Phe 的影响在儿童期和成年期更为明显。怀孕，导致儿童生长迟缓和神经功能障碍、发育迟缓，因此，PKU患者需要谨慎控制和治疗胎儿小头畸形和先天性心脏病。一生监测其血液 Phe 水平，特别是婴儿、儿童和孕妇。为了控制血液 Phe 水平，专门设计了低 Phe 饮食，不含含蛋白质的食物，由于 Phe 饮食很难遵循，并且长期暴露于升高的 Phe 中，因此必须遵循。血Phe频繁波动影响正常生长和大脑发育，血Phe水平正常然而，目前监测血液 Phe 需要很长的周转时间，因为需要首先通过抽血或过滤卡收集血液样本，然后在临床实验室进行分析因此，许多 PKU 患者只能维持次优的血液 Phe。水平，即使他们愿意进行饮食调整，因此，家庭苯丙氨酸监测提供。立即获得测试结果对于实现更好的健康结果和避免神经认知问题至关重要。尽管已经报道了在家监测 Phe 的方法，但大多数都依赖于光学检测，容易受到临床样品中有色物质或使用电化学检测的干扰复杂的分析方法或高度改进的电化学检测器限制了它们的商业潜力。基于这一迫切的需求以及我们最近的发现，许多市售血糖仪仪表 (BGM) 可以测量 NADH 的水平，NADH 是许多酶学检测中的辅助因子，我们建议重新利用糖尿病患者广泛使用 BGM 来监测 PKU 患者的血液 Phe 水平。允许直接使用现有的葡萄糖试纸通过苯丙氨酸酶定量 Phe 此外，我们还开发了一种定制的脱氢酶，可在 Phe 存在的情况下生成 NADH。在仍然使用现有的葡萄糖试纸的情况下，我们将提高 NADH 的灵敏度。重点是通过开发基于 BGM 的 Phe 测定法和传感器条来证明可行性通过利用当今的 BGM 平台，我们可以大大减少与开发相关的时间和成本。医疗器械研发和规模化生产，同时为北大提供易于使用且经济实惠的解决方案患者在家中或任何护理机构快速监测其 Phe 水平。