Pharmacological chaperones: a therapeutic approach for diseases caused by destabilizing missense mutations

L Liguori, M Monticelli, M Allocca, B Hay Mele… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The term “pharmacological chaperone” was introduced 20 years ago. Since then the
approach with this type of drug has been proposed for several diseases, lysosomal storage …

CDG therapies: from bench to bedside

S Brasil, C Pascoal, R Francisco… - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Congenital disorders of glycosylation (CDG) are a group of genetic disorders that affect
protein and lipid glycosylation and glycosylphosphatidylinositol synthesis. More than 100 …

Congenital disorders of glycosylation: narration of a story through its patents

M Monticelli, T D'Onofrio, J Jaeken, E Morava… - Orphanet Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Congenital disorders of glycosylation are a group of more than 160 rare genetic defects in
protein and lipid glycosylation. Since the first clinical report in 1980 of PMM2-CDG, the most …

Second-generation pharmacological chaperones: beyond inhibitors

ML Tran, Y Génisson, S Ballereau, C Dehoux - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Protein misfolding induced by missense mutations is the source of hundreds of
conformational diseases. The cell quality control may eliminate nascent misfolded proteins …

AZATAX: Acetazolamide safety and efficacy in cerebellar syndrome in PMM2 congenital disorder of glycosylation (PMM2‐CDG)

AF Martínez‐Monseny, M Bolasell… - Annals of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Phosphomannomutase deficiency (PMM2 congenital disorder of glycosylation
[PMM2‐CDG]) causes cerebellar syndrome and strokelike episodes (SLEs). SLEs are also …

Systematic review: drug repositioning for congenital disorders of glycosylation (CDG)

S Brasil, M Allocca, SCM Magrinho, I Santos… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Advances in research have boosted therapy development for congenital disorders of
glycosylation (CDG), a group of rare genetic disorders affecting protein and lipid …

New and potential strategies for the treatment of PMM2-CDG

A Gámez, M Serrano, D Gallego, A Vilas… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Mutations in the PMM2 gene cause phosphomannomutase 2 deficiency
(PMM2; MIM# 212065), which manifests as a congenital disorder of glycosylation (PMM2 …

β-Glucose-1, 6-bisphosphate stabilizes pathological phophomannomutase2 mutants in vitro and represents a lead compound to develop pharmacological …

M Monticelli, L Liguori, M Allocca, G Andreotti… - International Journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
A large number of mutations causing PMM2-CDG, which is the most frequent disorder of
glycosylation, destabilize phosphomannomutase2. We looked for a pharmacological …

Looking for protein stabilizing drugs with thermal shift assay

G Andreotti, M Monticelli… - Drug testing and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Thermal shift assay can be used for the high‐throughput screening of pharmacological
chaperones. These drugs are small molecules that bind a mutant protein and stabilize it. We …

The Analysis of Variants in the General Population Reveals That PMM2 Is Extremely Tolerant to Missense Mutations and That Diagnosis of PMM2-CDG Can Benefit …

V Citro, C Cimmaruta, M Monticelli, G Riccio… - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Type I disorders of glycosylation (CDG), the most frequent of which is
phosphomannomutase 2 (PMM2-CDG), are a group of diseases causing the incomplete N …