Nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors possess intrinsic anti-inflammatory activity

Benjamin J. Fowler; Bradley D. Gelfand; Younghee Kim; Nagaraj Kerur; Valeria Tarallo; Yoshio Hirano; Shoba Amarnath; Daniel H. Fowler; Marta Radwan; Mark T. Young; Keir Pittman; Paul Kubes; Hitesh K. Agarwal; Keykavous Parang; David R. Hinton; Ana Bastos-Carvalho; Shengjian Li; Tetsuhiro Yasuma; Takeshi Mizutani; Reo Yasuma; Charles Wright; Jayakrishna Ambati

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Nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors possess intrinsic anti-inflammatory activity

Benjamin J. Fowler, Bradley D. Gelfand, Younghee Kim, Nagaraj Kerur, Valeria Tarallo, Yoshio Hirano, Shoba Amarnath, Daniel H. Fowler, Marta Radwan, Mark T. Young, Keir Pittman, Paul Kubes, Hitesh K. Agarwal, Keykavous Parang, David R. Hinton, Ana Bastos-Carvalho, Shengjian Li, Tetsuhiro Yasuma, Takeshi Mizutani, Reo YasumaCharles Wright, Jayakrishna Ambati

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Nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) are mainstay therapeutics for HIV that block retrovirus replication. Alu (an endogenous retroelement that also requires reverse transcriptase for its life cycle)-derived RNAs activate P2X7 and the NLRP3 inflammasome to cause cell death of the retinal pigment epithelium in geographic atrophy, a type of age-related macular degeneration.We found that NRTIs inhibit P2X7-mediated NLRP3 inflammasome activation independent of reverse transcriptase inhibition. Multiple approved and clinically relevant NRTIs prevented caspase-1 activation, the effector of the NLRP3 inflammasome, induced by Alu RNA. NRTIs were efficacious in mouse models of geographic atrophy, choroidal neovascularization, graft-versus-host disease, and sterile liver inflammation. Our findings suggest that NRTIs are ripe for drug repurposing in P2X7-driven diseases.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1000-1003
Number of pages	4
Journal	Science
Volume	346
Issue number	6212
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1261754
State	Published - Nov 21 2014

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Fowler, B. J., Gelfand, B. D., Kim, Y., Kerur, N., Tarallo, V., Hirano, Y., Amarnath, S., Fowler, D. H., Radwan, M., Young, M. T., Pittman, K., Kubes, P., Agarwal, H. K., Parang, K., Hinton, D. R., Bastos-Carvalho, A., Li, S., Yasuma, T., Mizutani, T., ... Ambati, J. (2014). Nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors possess intrinsic anti-inflammatory activity. Science, 346(6212), 1000-1003. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1261754

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