1. Incorporation of Phosphonate into Benzonaphthyridine Toll-like Receptor 7 Agonists for Adsorption to Aluminum Hydroxide
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Ugo D'Oro, Chun Li, Kathy Yue, Michael P. Cooke, Janice Hampton, Andrew T. Miller, M. Lamine Mbow, Nicholas Valiante, David A. G. Skibinski, Xiaoyue Zhang, De Shon Hall, Michael Shapiro, Derek T. O'Hagan, Manmohan Singh, Tom Y.-H. Wu, Bishnu P. Nayak, Jillian Maginnis, Yongkai Li, and Alex Cortez
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0301 basic medicine ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Organophosphonates ,Aluminum Hydroxide ,Injections, Intramuscular ,Mice ,Structure-Activity Relationship ,03 medical and health sciences ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,0302 clinical medicine ,Immune system ,Antigen ,Adjuvanticity ,Drug Discovery ,medicine ,Animals ,Humans ,Naphthyridines ,Mice, Inbred BALB C ,Dose-Response Relationship, Drug ,Molecular Structure ,Alum ,Hydrogen-Ion Concentration ,Phosphonate ,Combinatorial chemistry ,Small molecule ,030104 developmental biology ,Toll-Like Receptor 7 ,chemistry ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Immunology ,Leukocytes, Mononuclear ,Molecular Medicine ,Hydroxide ,Female ,Adsorption ,Adjuvant ,Spleen - Abstract
Small molecule Toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7) agonists have been used as vaccine adjuvants by enhancing innate immune activation to afford better adaptive response. Localized TLR7 agonists without systemic exposure can afford good adjuvanticity, suggesting peripheral innate activation (non-antigen-specific) is not required for immune priming. To enhance colocalization of antigen and adjuvant, benzonaphthyridine (BZN) TLR7 agonists are chemically modified with phosphonates to allow adsorption onto aluminum hydroxide (alum), a formulation commonly used in vaccines for antigen stabilization and injection site deposition. The adsorption process is facilitated by enhancing aqueous solubility of BZN analogs to avoid physical mixture of two insoluble particulates. These BZN-phosphonates are highly adsorbed onto alum, which significantly reduced systemic exposure and increased local retention post injection. This report demonstrates a novel approach in vaccine adjuvant design using phosphonate modification to afford adsorption of small molecule immune potentiator (SMIP) onto alum, thereby enhancing co-delivery with antigen.
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- 2016
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