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  3. CBP30, a selective CBP/p300 bromodomain inhibitor, suppresses human Th17 responses

CBP30, a selective CBP/p300 bromodomain inhibitor, suppresses human Th17 responses

  • Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Aug 25;112(34):10768-73. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1501956112.
Ariane Hammitzsch 1,  Cynthia Tallant 2,  Oleg Fedorov 2,  Alison O'Mahony 3,  Paul E Brennan 2,  Duncan A Hay 4,  Fernando O Martinez 1,  M Hussein Al-Mossawi 1,  Jelle de Wit 1,  Matteo Vecellio 1,  Christopher Wells 4,  Paul Wordsworth 1,  Susanne Müller 2,  Stefan Knapp 5,  Paul Bowness 6
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Botnar Research Institute, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology, and Musculoskeletal Science, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LD, United Kingdom;
  • 2 Structural Genomics Consortium, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7DQ, United Kingdom; Target Discovery Institute, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7FZ, United Kingdom;
  • 3 BioSeek Division of DiscoveRx Corporation, South San Francisco, CA 94080;
  • 4 Structural Genomics Consortium, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7DQ, United Kingdom;
  • 5 Structural Genomics Consortium, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7DQ, United Kingdom; Target Discovery Institute, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7FZ, United Kingdom; Institute for Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany paul.bowness@ndorms.ox.ac.uk knapp@pharmchem.uni-frankfurt.de.
  • 6 Botnar Research Institute, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology, and Musculoskeletal Science, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LD, United Kingdom; paul.bowness@ndorms.ox.ac.uk knapp@pharmchem.uni-frankfurt.de.
PMID: 26261308 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1501956112
Abstract

Th17 responses are critical to a variety of human autoimmune diseases, and therapeutic targeting with monoclonal Antibodies against IL-17 and IL-23 has shown considerable promise. Here, we report data to support selective bromodomain blockade of the transcriptional coactivators CBP (CREB binding protein) and p300 as an alternative approach to inhibit human Th17 responses. We show that CBP30 has marked molecular specificity for the bromodomains of CBP and p300, compared with 43 Other bromodomains. In unbiased cellular testing on a diverse panel of cultured primary human cells, CBP30 reduced immune cell production of IL-17A and Other proinflammatory cytokines. CBP30 also inhibited IL-17A secretion by Th17 cells from healthy donors and patients with ankylosing spondylitis and psoriatic arthritis. Transcriptional profiling of human T cells after CBP30 treatment showed a much more restricted effect on gene expression than that observed with the pan-BET (bromo and extraterminal domain protein family) bromodomain inhibitor JQ1. This selective targeting of the CBP/p300 bromodomain by CBP30 will potentially lead to fewer side effects than with the broadly acting epigenetic inhibitors currently in clinical trials.

Keywords

CBP/p300; Th17; ankylosing spondylitis; bromodomain; epigenetic inhibitors.

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