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Vulpetti A, Rondeau JM, Bellance MH, Blank J, Boesch R, Boettcher A, Bornancin F, Buhr S, Connor LE, Dumelin CE, Esser O, Hediger M, Hintermann S, Hommel U, Koch E, Lapointe G, Leder L, Lehmann S, Lehr P, Meier P, Muller L, Ostermeier D, Ramage P, Schiebel-Haddad S, Smith AB, Stojanovic A, Velcicky J, Yamamoto R, Hurth K. Ligandability Assessment of IL-1β by Integrated Hit Identification Approaches. J Med Chem 2024; 67:8141-8160. [PMID: 38728572 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.4c00240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2024]
Abstract
Human interleukin-1β (IL-1β) is a pro-inflammatory cytokine that plays a critical role in the regulation of the immune response and the development of various inflammatory diseases. In this publication, we disclose our efforts toward the discovery of IL-1β binders that interfere with IL-1β signaling. To this end, several technologies were used in parallel, including fragment-based screening (FBS), DNA-encoded library (DEL) technology, peptide discovery platform (PDP), and virtual screening. The utilization of distinct technologies resulted in the identification of new chemical entities exploiting three different sites on IL-1β, all of them also inhibiting the interaction with the IL-1R1 receptor. Moreover, we identified lysine 103 of IL-1β as a target residue suitable for the development of covalent, low-molecular-weight IL-1β antagonists.
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- Anna Vulpetti
- Biomedical Research, Novartis, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland
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- Biomedical Research, Novartis, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland
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- Biomedical Research, Novartis, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland
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- Biomedical Research, Novartis, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland
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- Biomedical Research, Novartis, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland
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- Biomedical Research, Novartis, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland
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- Biomedical Research, Novartis, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland
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- Biomedical Research, Novartis, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland
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- Biomedical Research, Novartis, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland
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- Biomedical Research, Novartis, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland
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- Biomedical Research, Novartis, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland
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- Biomedical Research, Novartis, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland
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- Biomedical Research, Novartis, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland
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- Biomedical Research, Novartis, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland
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- Biomedical Research, Novartis, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland
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Rodrigues M, Matsarskaia O, Rego P, Geraldes V, Connor LE, Oswald IDH, Sztucki M, Shalaev E. Freeze-Induced Phase Transition and Local Pressure in a Phospholipid/Water System: Novel Insights Were Obtained from a Time/Temperature Resolved Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction Study. Mol Pharm 2023; 20:5790-5799. [PMID: 37889088 PMCID: PMC10630958 DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.3c00657] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2023] [Revised: 10/10/2023] [Accepted: 10/13/2023] [Indexed: 10/28/2023]
Abstract
Water-to-ice transformation results in a 10% increase in volume, which can have a significant impact on biopharmaceuticals during freeze-thaw cycles due to the mechanical stresses imparted by the growing ice crystals. Whether these stresses would contribute to the destabilization of biopharmaceuticals depends on both the magnitude of the stress and sensitivity of a particular system to pressure and sheer stresses. To address the gap of the "magnitude" question, a phospholipid, 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPPC), is evaluated as a probe to detect and quantify the freeze-induced pressure. DPPC can form several phases under elevated pressure, and therefore, the detection of a high-pressure DPPC phase during freezing would be indicative of a freeze-induced pressure increase. In this study, the phase behavior of DPPC/water suspensions, which also contain the ice nucleation agent silver iodide, is monitored by synchrotron small/wide-angle X-ray scattering during the freeze-thaw transition. Cooling the suspensions leads to heterogeneous ice nucleation at approximately -7 °C, followed by a phase transition of DPPC between -11 and -40 °C. In this temperature range, the initial gel phase of DPPC, Lβ', gradually converts to a second phase, tentatively identified as a high-pressure Gel III phase. The Lβ'-to-Gel III phase transition continues during an isothermal hold at -40 °C; a second (homogeneous) ice nucleation event of water confined in the interlamellar space is detected by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) at the same temperature. The extent of the phase transition depends on the DPPC concentration, with a lower DPPC concentration (and therefore a higher ice fraction), resulting in a higher degree of Lβ'-to-Gel III conversion. By comparing the data from this study with the literature data on the pressure/temperature Lβ'/Gel III phase boundary and the lamellar lattice constant of the Lβ' phase, the freeze-induced pressure is estimated to be approximately 0.2-2.6 kbar. The study introduces DPPC as a probe to detect a pressure increase during freezing, therefore addressing the gap between a theoretical possibility of protein destabilization by freeze-induced pressure and the current lack of methods to detect freeze-induced pressure. In addition, the observation of a freeze-induced phase transition in a phospholipid can improve the mechanistic understanding of factors that could disrupt the structure of lipid-based biopharmaceuticals, such as liposomes and mRNA vaccines, during freezing and thawing.
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- Miguel
A. Rodrigues
- Centro
de Química Estrutural, Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon, Lisbon 1049-001, Portugal
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- Institut
Laue−Langevin, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, Grenoble 38000, France
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- Centro
de Química Estrutural, Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon, Lisbon 1049-001, Portugal
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- Centro
de Química Estrutural, Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon, Lisbon 1049-001, Portugal
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- Strathclyde
Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0RE, U.K.
- Collaborative
International Research Programme, University
of Strathclyde and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Technology
Innovation Centre, Glasgow G1 1RD, U.K.
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- Strathclyde
Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0RE, U.K.
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- European
Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble Cedex 9 38043, France
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- Abbvie Inc., 2525 Dupont Drive, Irvine, California 92612, United States
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Rodrigues MA, Rego P, Geraldes V, Connor LE, Oswald IDH, Sztucki M, Shalaev E. Mannitol Crystallization at Sub-Zero Temperatures: Time/Temperature-Resolved Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction Study and the Phase Diagram. J Phys Chem Lett 2021; 12:1453-1460. [PMID: 33523661 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c03680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Mannitol, a common pharmaceutical ingredient, exhibits complex polymorphism even in simple binary mannitol/water mixtures, with four crystalline forms observed. In this investigation, time/temperature-resolved synchrotron X-ray diffraction measurements are performed during freezing and thawing of mannitol/water mixtures. Mannitol crystallization depends strongly on the cooling rate and is initiated during cooling, if the cooling rate is lower than the critical cooling rate; otherwise, mannitol remains amorphous during freezing and crystallizes during subsequent heating above -30 °C. A temperature-composition phase diagram is constructed, reflecting eutectic and peritectic points and lower-temperature equilibria involving mannitol hemihydrate, hexagonal ice, and β-mannitol. Comparison of the experimental data with the phase diagram reveals that the mannitol crystallization behavior does not follow the equilibrium but appears to obey the Ostwald crystallization rule. Novel insights on equilibrium and kinetics phase relationships in mannitol/water systems could lead to improved formulations and manufacturing processes for pharmaceuticals and biopharmaceuticals.
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- Miguel A Rodrigues
- Centro de Química Estrutural, Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Centro de Química Estrutural, Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Centro de Química Estrutural, Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, 161 Cathedral Street, Glasgow G4 0RE, U.K
- Collaborative International Research Programme: University of Strathclyde and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Technology Innovation Centre, 99 George Street, Glasgow G1 1RD, U.K
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- Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, 161 Cathedral Street, Glasgow G4 0RE, U.K
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- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, 71 avenue des Martyrs, 38043 Grenoble, Cedex 9, France
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- Pharmaceutical Sciences, Abbvie, 2525 Dupont Drive, Irvine, California 92612, United States
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Connor LE, Vassileiou AD, Halbert GW, Johnston BF, Oswald IDH. Structural investigation and compression of a co-crystal of indomethacin and saccharin. CrystEngComm 2019. [DOI: 10.1039/c9ce00838a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Indomethacin : saccharin cocrystal has been studied under high pressure conditions and the amide interactions compared with previous high pressure studies.
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- Lauren E. Connor
- Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
- University of Strathclyde
- Glasgow
- UK
- Collaborative International Research Programme: University of Strathclyde
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- Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
- University of Strathclyde
- Glasgow
- UK
- EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Continuous Manufacturing and Crystallisation
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- Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
- University of Strathclyde
- Glasgow
- UK
- EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Continuous Manufacturing and Crystallisation
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- Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
- University of Strathclyde
- Glasgow
- UK
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Connor LE, Morrison CA, Oswald IDH, Pulham CR, Warren MR. Carbon dioxide binary crystals via the thermal decomposition of RDX at high pressure. Chem Sci 2017; 8:4872-4878. [PMID: 28959411 PMCID: PMC5603901 DOI: 10.1039/c7sc01379e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2017] [Accepted: 05/03/2017] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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A carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide solid solution has been captured in a diamond anvil cell following the thermal decomposition of 1,3,5-trinitroperhydro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX) at high temperatures and pressures. This is the first time a carbon dioxide binary solid has been observed at high pressure. This observation has stimulated low temperature crystallographic studies of this binary system using recently developed gas absorption apparatus and computational modelling.
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- L E Connor
- Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences , University of Strathclyde , 161 Cathedral Street , Glasgow , G4 0RE , UK .
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- School of Chemistry , Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions , The University of Edinburgh , King's Buildings , David Brewster Road , Edinburgh EH9 3FJ , UK
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- Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences , University of Strathclyde , 161 Cathedral Street , Glasgow , G4 0RE , UK .
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- School of Chemistry , Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions , The University of Edinburgh , King's Buildings , David Brewster Road , Edinburgh EH9 3FJ , UK
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- Diamond Light Source , Harwell Science and Innovation Campus , Didcot , Oxfordshire OX11 0DE , UK
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Connor LE, Delori A, Hutchison IB, Nic Daeid N, Sutcliffe OB, Oswald IDH. The ecstasy and the agony; compression studies of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA). Acta Crystallogr B Struct Sci Cryst Eng Mater 2015; 71:3-9. [DOI: 10.1107/s2052520614026389] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2014] [Accepted: 12/01/2014] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
Abstract
MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine) is a Class A substance that is usually found in a tableted form. It is only observed in one orthorhombic polymorph under ambient conditions. It shows slight positional disorder around the methlyenedioxy ring which persists during compression up to 6.66 GPa. The crystal quality deteriorates above 6.66 GPa where the hydrostatic limit of the pressure-transmitting medium is exceeded. The structure undergoes anisotropic compression with thea-axis compressing the greatest (12%cf.4 and 10% for theb- andc-axes, respectively). This is due to the pattern of the hydrogen bonding which acts like a spring and allows the compression along this direction.
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Connor LE. National survey of teachers of the deaf. Am Ann Deaf 1971; 116:345. [PMID: 5580617] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Connor LE. The youth movement. Except Child 1968; 34:639-640. [PMID: 5659439] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Connor LE. Private programs and governmental support. Except Child 1968; 34:469-470. [PMID: 5639967] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Connor LE. Reflections on the year 2000. Except Child 1968; 34:725-732. [PMID: 5668273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Connor LE. The brain drain in special education. Except Child 1967; 34:219-220. [PMID: 6076815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Connor LE. Preparation programs for special education administrators. Except Child 1966; 33:161-167. [PMID: 5978819] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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