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  3. A potent and selective Sirtuin 1 inhibitor alleviates pathology in multiple animal and cell models of Huntington's disease

A potent and selective Sirtuin 1 inhibitor alleviates pathology in multiple animal and cell models of Huntington's disease

  • Hum Mol Genet. 2014 Jun 1;23(11):2995-3007. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddu010.
Marianne R Smith 1,  Adeela Syed,  Tamas Lukacsovich,  Judy Purcell,  Brett A Barbaro,  Shane A Worthge,  Stephen R Wei,  Giuseppe Pollio,  Letizia Magnoni,  Carla Scali,  Luisa Massai,  Davide Franceschini,  Michela Camarri,  Marco Gianfriddo,  Enrica Diodato,  Russell Thomas,  Ozgun Gokce,  S J Tabrizi,  Andrea Caricasole,  Bernard Landwehrmeyer,  Liliana Menalled,  Carol Murphy,  Sylvie Ramboz,  Ruth Luthi-Carter,  Goran Westerberg,  J Lawrence Marsh
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  • 1 Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.
PMID: 24436303 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddu010
Abstract

Protein acetylation, which is central to transcriptional control as well as Other cellular processes, is disrupted in Huntington's disease (HD). Treatments that restore global acetylation levels, such as inhibiting histone deacetylases (HDACs), are effective in suppressing HD pathology in model organisms. However, agents that selectively target the disease-relevant HDACs have not been available. SIRT1 (Sir2 in Drosophila melanogaster) deacetylates histones and Other proteins including transcription factors. Genetically reducing, but not eliminating, Sir2 has been shown to suppress HD pathology in model organisms. To date, small molecule inhibitors of sirtuins have exhibited low potency and unattractive pharmacological and biopharmaceutical properties. Here, we show that highly selective pharmacological inhibition of Drosophila Sir2 and mammalian SIRT1 using the novel inhibitor selisistat (selisistat; 6-chloro-2,3,4,9-tetrahydro-1H-carbazole-1-carboxamide) can suppress HD pathology caused by mutant Huntingtin exon 1 fragments in Drosophila, mammalian cells and mice. We have validated Sir2 as the in vivo target of selisistat by showing that genetic elimination of Sir2 eradicates the effect of this inhibitor in Drosophila. The specificity of selisistat is shown by its effect on recombinant sirtuins in mammalian cells. Reduction of HD pathology by selisistat in Drosophila, mammalian cells and mouse models of HD suggests that this inhibitor has potential as an effective therapeutic treatment for human disease and may also serve as a tool to better understand the downstream pathways of SIRT1/Sir2 that may be critical for HD.

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