Literature Support

Supporting literature

Compelling evidence for therapeutic benefit of HDAC6 inhibition

Published literature

Extensive data from multiple research groups support Eikonizo’s approach for using HDAC6 inhibitors as a disease-modifying therapeutic for neurodegeneration in ALS and AD

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HDAC6 deacetylates tau and tubulin, engaging key mechanisms relevant in neurodegeneration

Multiple HDAC6 inhibitor (HDAC6i) tool compounds have desired mechanistic effects in disease models

  1. ​Tseng JH, Xie L, Song S, Xie Y, Allen L, Ajit D, et al. The Deacetylase HDAC6 Mediates Endogenous Neuritic Tau Pathology. Cell Rep. 2017; PMID:28854366.

  2. D’Ydewalle C, Krishnan J, Chiheb DM, Van Damme P, Irobi J, Kozikowski AP, et al. HDAC6 inhibitors reverse axonal loss in a mouse model of mutant HSPB1-induced Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. Nat Med. 2011;17(8):968–74. PMID:21785432.

  3. Selenica ML, Benner L, Housley SB, Manchec B, Lee DC, Nash KR, et al. Histone deacetylase 6 inhibition improves memory and reduces total tau levels in a mouse model of tau deposition. Alzheimer’s Res Ther. 2014; PMID:24576665.

  4. Fan SJ, Huang FI, Liou JP, Yang CR. The novel histone de acetylase 6 inhibitor, MPT0G211, ameliorates tau phosphorylation and cognitive deficits in an Alzheimer’s disease model article. Cell Death Dis. 2018;9(6). PMID:29844403.

  5. Zhang L, Liu C, Wu J, Tao J-J, Sui X-L, Yao Z-G, et al. Tubastatin A/ACY-1215 improves cognition in Alzheimer’s disease transgenic mice. J Alzheimers Dis. 2014 Jul 25;41(4):1193–205. PMID:24844691.

HDAC6 deacetylates tau and tubulin, engaging key mechanisms relevant in neurodegeneration

Tubulin

  1. Hubbert C, Guardiola A, Shao R, Kawaguchi Y, Ito A, Nixon A, et al. HDAC6 is a microtubule-associated deacetylase. Nature. 2002 May 23;417(6887):455–8. PMID:12024216.
  2. Dompierre JP, Godin JD, Charrin BC, Cordelières FP, King SJ, Humbert S, et al. Histone deacetylase 6 inhibition compensates for the transport deficit in Huntington’s disease by increasing tubulin acetylation. J Neurosci. 2007 Mar 28;27(13):3571–83. PMID:17392473.

Tau

  1. Carlomagno Y, Chung D eun C, Yue M, Castanedes-Casey M, Madden BJ, Dunmore J, et al. An Acetylation–phosphorylation switch that regulates tau aggregation propensity and function. J Biol Chem. 2017;292(37):15277–86. PMID:28760828.

  2. Tseng JH, Xie L, Song S, Xie Y, Allen L, Ajit D, et al. The Deacetylase HDAC6 Mediates Endogenous Neuritic Tau Pathology. Cell Rep. 2017; PMID:28854366.

  3. Cook C, Carlomagno Y, Gendron TF, Dunmore J, Scheffel K, Stetler C, et al. Acetylation of the KXGS motifs in tau is a critical determinant in modulation of tau aggregation and clearance. Hum Mol Genet. 2014;23(1):104–16. PMID:23962722.