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Senyon Teddy Choe

Senyon Teddy Choe

University of California San Diego, USA

Title: Designer Biologics: BMP Chimeras and their clinical potential

Biography

Biography: Senyon Teddy Choe

Abstract

Discovery of new biologics presents new challenges and opportunities and revenues for biologics are rapidly growing in biopharmaceutical industry. We exploited our detailed structural knowledge of three-dimensional structures of BMPs, their receptors, and their antagonists to engineer synthetic BMP ligands. By use of a novel protein engineering strategy that we termed RASCH (Random Assembly of Segmental Chimera and Heteromers), we have set out to design a synthetic biologics (synbiologics®) for bone and cartilage therapy. In the case of bone fusion, we have used Activin and BMP-2, which are the members of TGF-beta superfamily, to create AB204 (Allendorph et al., 2011). AB204 is a synthetic 50:50 chimera of the two ligands, which indeed shows highly effective bone-forming capability (Yoon et al., 2014). In the case of cartilage, we have used Activin and BMP-6 to create AB604, again a 50:50 chimera of the two. AB604 shows all the properties of super BMP6, surpassing the functional characteristics of natural BMP6.

This approach promises to be a very powerful way to harness different biological functionalities of natural ligands to merge into one synthetic designer molecule such that it goes beyond what Mother Nature could provide a new means to meet various unmet clinical needs.

References:

  1. Allendorph, G., Read, J.D., Kawakami, Y., Kelber, J.A., Isaacs, M.J., Choe, S. (2011) Designer TGF-beta superfamily ligands with diversified functionality.  PLoS One, 6, e26402.
  2. Kwiatkowski, W., Gray, P.C., Choe, S. (2014) Engineering TGF-beta superfamily ligands for clinical applications. Trends Pharmacol. Sci., 35:648-57.
  3. Yoon, B., Esquivies, L., Ahn, C., Gray, P. C., Ye, S.-K., Kwiatkowski, W., Choe, S. (2014) An Activin A/BMP2 chimera displays osteogenic activity superior to that of BMP2. J. Bone and Mineral Research. Online April 1, 29:1950-9
  4. Yoon, B., Lee, J.H., Na, K., Cho, J., Choe,S. (2015) The toxicological evaluation of repetitive 2- and 4-week intravenous injection of Activin A/BMP-2 chimera (AB204) into rats. Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, 73, 1-8.
  5. Yoon, B., Lee, J.H., Na, K., Ahn, C., Cho, J., Lee, S.-H., Ahn, H.C., Choi, J., Oh, H., Kim, B.M., Choe, S. (2016) The effects of a single intravenous injection of novel Activin A/BMP-2 chimera (AB204) on toxicity and the respiratory and central nervous systems. Drug and Chemical Toxicology, 39(3):284-9.