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Generation of Monoclonal Antibodies Against Natural Products
Published on: April 6, 2019
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合成オピオイド中毒と戦うモノクローナル抗体
Lauren C Smith1, Paul T Bremer1,2, Candy S Hwang1,3
1Departments of Chemistry, Immunology and Microbial Science, Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology , The Scripps Research Institute , 10550 N Torrey Pines Road , La Jolla , California 92037 , United States.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|June 13, 2019
まとめ
研究者は合成オピオイドの過剰摂取を治療するために単一クローン抗体 (mAbs) を開発しました. これらの抗体はフェンタニルとカーフェンタニルの効果を効果的に逆転させ,オピオイド依存症と過剰摂取に対する新たな治療法を提供した.
科学分野:
- 薬理学について
- 免疫学
- 毒理学について
背景:
- フェンタニルのような合成オピオイドは 米国における薬物関連死亡の主な原因です
- 違法な合成オピオイドは安価で 簡単に手に入り 強力で 深刻な公衆衛生上の脅威となっています
- ナロキソンのような現在の過剰投与治療は 短い半減期を含む制限があります
研究 の 目的:
- フェンタニル類の薬剤を標的としたモノクローナル抗体 (mAbs) の開発と特徴づけ
- 合成オピオイド過剰投与の臨床前モデルにおけるこれらのmAbsの有効性を評価する.
- 合成オピオイド使用障害と過剰摂取に対する潜在的な治療戦略としてmAbsを調査する.
主な方法:
- フェンタニル結合ワクチンを接種したマウスのハイブリドームでモノクローナル抗体が生成された.
- 表面プラズモン共鳴 (SPR) を用いて,抗体結合親和性とクロス反応性を評価した.
- フェンタニルの致死量投与後の効果はマウスでの抗発育モデルと生存研究で評価された.
- 薬理学分析とナロキソンとの比較が行われました.
主要な成果:
- 6つのハイブリドーマは,フェンタニルに対する高い結合親和 (10−11M) と,同類剤との交叉反応性を有するmAbsを生成した.
- 鉛mAb (6A4) はフェンタニルとカーフェンタニルの効果を鈍化し,マウスの生存率を向上させた.
- 6A4は,血液中の薬物を隔離することによって,脳への薬物の生物分泌を減少させた.
- ネズミではナロキソンよりも半減期が長く,オピオイド誘発のアンチノシセプションを逆転させた.
結論:
- モノクローナル抗体は 合成オピオイドの過剰摂取に対する 新しい治療法として有望です
- 6A4の長い半減期は,再薬剤化事件を防ぐことができます.
- mAbsは,急性オピオイド過剰摂取とオピオイド使用障害の両方に潜在的な治療方法を表しています.
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