TY - JOUR
T1 - A Small-Molecule Pan-Id Antagonist Inhibits Pathologic Ocular Neovascularization
AU - Wojnarowicz, Paulina M.
AU - Lima e Silva, Raquel
AU - Ohnaka, Masayuki
AU - Lee, Sang Bae
AU - Chin, Yvette
AU - Kulukian, Anita
AU - Chang, Sung Hee
AU - Desai, Bina
AU - Garcia Escolano, Marta
AU - Shah, Riddhi
AU - Garcia-Cao, Marta
AU - Xu, Sijia
AU - Kadam, Rashmi
AU - Goldgur, Yehuda
AU - Miller, Meredith A.
AU - Ouerfelli, Ouathek
AU - Yang, Guangli
AU - Arakawa, Tsutomu
AU - Albanese, Steven K.
AU - Garland, William A.
AU - Stoller, Glenn
AU - Chaudhary, Jaideep
AU - Norton, Larry
AU - Soni, Rajesh Kumar
AU - Philip, John
AU - Hendrickson, Ronald C.
AU - Iavarone, Antonio
AU - Dannenberg, Andrew J.
AU - Chodera, John D.
AU - Pavletich, Nikola
AU - Lasorella, Anna
AU - Campochiaro, Peter A.
AU - Benezra, Robert
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The authors are grateful to members of the Benezra Lab, past and present, for helpful discussions throughout the course of this work. We are also grateful to Andrea Rizzi for additional supportive modeling work of AGX51 interactions and Drs. Gary Cook and Gary Novack for expert guidance on the ophthalmic studies. We thank Elisa de Stanchina and the MSKCC Antitumor Assessment Core Facility for assistance with pharmacokinetic and bioavailability assays, Nicholas Socci and the MSKCC Bioinformatics Core Facility for additional statistical analyses, and Jorge Gandara of the Weill Cornell Medical College Microbiome Core for assistance with the GloMax instrument. For expert guidance in implementing and executing the NanoBRET assay, we wish to thank Dan McKay and William Forrester at Novartis and James Vasta at Promega. R.B. and J.D.C. gratefully acknowledge support from the Sloan Kettering Institute and NIH grant P30 CA008748 . R.B. is also supported by grants from the NCI ( PO1 CA094060 ) and The Breast Cancer Research Foundation . A.J.D. is supported by funding from The Breast Cancer Research Foundation . S.K.A. was supported by the Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences . Work was partially supported by 1R43CA150448-01 from NCI/NIH to W.A.G. and NIH grants to A.I. ( R01CA101644 and R01CA131126 ). M.G.-C. was funded by fellowships from the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) and the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (MEC). P.M.W. is a recipient of a Postdoctoral Training Award from the Fonds de Recherche du Quebec-Sante; (FRQS). M.G.E. was supported by fellowships issued by the Valencian Government of Spain (GVA) and the European Social Fund ( ACIF/2018/004 and BEFPI/2018/029 ). Financial support was also provided by Angiogenex, Inc. to the R.B. Laboratory.
Funding Information:
The authors are grateful to members of the Benezra Lab, past and present, for helpful discussions throughout the course of this work. We are also grateful to Andrea Rizzi for additional supportive modeling work of AGX51 interactions and Drs. Gary Cook and Gary Novack for expert guidance on the ophthalmic studies. We thank Elisa de Stanchina and the MSKCC Antitumor Assessment Core Facility for assistance with pharmacokinetic and bioavailability assays, Nicholas Socci and the MSKCC Bioinformatics Core Facility for additional statistical analyses, and Jorge Gandara of the Weill Cornell Medical College Microbiome Core for assistance with the GloMax instrument. For expert guidance in implementing and executing the NanoBRET assay, we wish to thank Dan McKay and William Forrester at Novartis and James Vasta at Promega. R.B. and J.D.C. gratefully acknowledge support from the Sloan Kettering Institute and NIH grant P30 CA008748. R.B. is also supported by grants from the NCI (PO1 CA094060) and The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. A.J.D. is supported by funding from The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. S.K.A. was supported by the Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Work was partially supported by 1R43CA150448-01 from NCI/NIH to W.A.G. and NIH grants to A.I. (R01CA101644 and R01CA131126). M.G.-C. was funded by fellowships from the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) and the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (MEC). P.M.W. is a recipient of a Postdoctoral Training Award from the Fonds de Recherche du Quebec-Sante; (FRQS). M.G.E. was supported by fellowships issued by the Valencian Government of Spain (GVA) and the European Social Fund (ACIF/2018/004 and BEFPI/2018/029). Financial support was also provided by Angiogenex, Inc. to the R.B. Laboratory. Conceptualization, P.M.W. W.A.G. A.J.D. L.N. and R.B.; Methodology, P.M.W. R.L.e.S. A.K. Y.G. O.O. T.A. W.A.G. G.S. J.C. R.C.H. J.D.C. N.P. and R.B.; Formal Analysis, P.M.W. R.L.e.S. S.-H.C. T.A. S.K.A. R.K.S. J.P. and R.C.H.; Investigation, P.M.W. R.L.e.S. M.O. S.B.L. Y.C. A.K. S.-H.C. B.D. M.G.E. R.S. M.G.-C. S.X. R.K. Y.G. M.A.M. G.Y. T.A. S.K.A. R.S. and J.P.; Resources, O.O. and G.Y.; Writing – Original Draft, P.M.W. and R.B.; Writing – Review & Editing, P.M.W. A.J.D. M.G.E. and R.B.; Visualization, P.M.W. R.L.e.S. S.B.L. S.-H.C. T.A. S.K.A. R.C.H. and R.B.; Supervision, O.O. A.I. J.D.C. N.P. A.L. P.A.C. and R.B.; Funding Acquisition, A.I. A.J.D. J.D.C. and R.B. R.B. W.A.G. J.C. and G.S. own shares of Angiogenex, Inc. which holds the patent for the use and development of AGX51. R.B. is the chief scientific officer of Angiogenex, Inc. and a board member, both positions unpaid. G.Y. is listed as an inventor on patents that were filed by MSKCC. O.O. is listed as an inventor and receives royalties from patents that were filed by MSKCC. O.O. is an unpaid member of the SAB of Angiogenex, Inc. and owns shares in Angiogenex, Inc. J.D.C. was on the Scientific Advisory Board for Schrödinger during part of this research and now serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of OpenEye Scientific.
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PY - 2019/10/1
Y1 - 2019/10/1
N2 - Wojnarowicz et al., describe the identification, by an in silico screen, and characterization of a small molecule, AGX51, that targets Id proteins. AGX51 treatment of cells lead to Id protein degradation, cell cycle arrest, and reduced cell viability. AGX51 inhibited pathologic ocular neovascularization in mouse models, phenocopying genetic Id loss.
AB - Wojnarowicz et al., describe the identification, by an in silico screen, and characterization of a small molecule, AGX51, that targets Id proteins. AGX51 treatment of cells lead to Id protein degradation, cell cycle arrest, and reduced cell viability. AGX51 inhibited pathologic ocular neovascularization in mouse models, phenocopying genetic Id loss.
KW - Id proteins
KW - angiogenesis
KW - macular degeneration
KW - protein-protein interactions
KW - retinopathy of prematurity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85072314164&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.08.073
DO - 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.08.073
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85072314164
SN - 2211-1247
VL - 29
SP - 62-75.e7
JO - Cell Reports
JF - Cell Reports
IS - 1
ER -