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 …

Repurposing the aldose reductase inhibitor and diabetic neuropathy drug epalrestat for the congenital disorder of glycosylation PMM2-CDG

S Iyer, FS Sam, N DiPrimio, G Preston… - Disease models & …, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
ABSTRACT Phosphomannomutase 2 deficiency, or PMM2-CDG, is the most common
congenital disorder of glycosylation and affects over 1000 patients globally. There are no …

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 …

Tracer metabolomics reveals the role of aldose reductase in glycosylation

S Radenkovic, AN Ligezka, SS Mokashi, K Driesen… - Cell Reports …, 2023 - cell.com
Abnormal polyol metabolism is predominantly associated with diabetes, where excess
glucose is converted to sorbitol by aldose reductase (AR). Recently, abnormal polyol …

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 …

Treatment options in congenital disorders of glycosylation

JH Park, T Marquardt - Frontiers in Genetics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Despite advances in the identification and diagnosis of congenital disorders of glycosylation
(CDG), treatment options remain limited and are often constrained to symptomatic …

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 …

Evolutionary rescue of phosphomannomutase deficiency in yeast models of human disease

RC Vignogna, M Allocca, M Monticelli, JW Norris… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
The most common cause of human congenital disorders of glycosylation (CDG) are
mutations in the phosphomannomutase gene PMM2, which affect protein N-linked …

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 …