Tufts University

On Target Therapeutics LLC

New England Medical Center Hospitals. Inc.

Children's Medical Center Corporation

New England Medical Center

Alan S Kopin

Krishna Kumar

Charles M Cohen

Jamie Raudensky Doyle

Martin Beinborn

Pedram Hamrah

Venkata S Raman

Benjamin N Harwood

Louis M Kunkel

Matthew S Alexander

Isabelle Draper

Jamie R Doyle

The present application provides methods for preparing soluble lipidated ligand agents comprising a ligand entity and a lipid entity, and in some embodiments, provides relevant parameters of each of these components, thereby enabling appropriate selection of components to assemble active agents for any given target of interest.

Soluble lipidated ligand agents for treating eye inflammation

The present disclosure relates to, among other things, compositions and methods for treating an inflammatory condition including, but not limited to, ocular inflammation, dry eye disease, and ocular neuropathic pain. One aspect of the present disclosure relates to a composition comprising (a) chemerin or a fragment or analog thereof and (b) a lipid entity linked to the chemerin or fragment or analog thereof.

Methods for treating symptoms of dry eye disease

The present disclosure relates to, among other things, compounds and methods for treating neuropathic pain, ocular pain, ocular inflammation, and/or dry eye and methods of detecting mutations in specific G-protein coupled receptors, such as missense mutations, and determining the extent to which these mutations alter the pharmacological response of the G-protein coupled receptor.

Bovine adrenal medulla peptide 8-22 compounds and methods of use thereof for treating pain

Methods and systems for designing and/or characterizing soluble lipidated ligand agents

Methods of lowering blink reflex for the treatment of dry eye disease

Compounds and methods for treating pain

Disclosed are methods of treating a muscle disease and improving normal muscle function by administering a therapeutically effective amount of an isoprenoid antibiotic. Also disclosed are methods of upregulating hnRNP L and hnRNP L targets by administering a therapeutically effective amount of an isoprenoid antibiotic. Methods of screening compounds for use in treating muscle disease and improving muscle function are also described.

Compounds and methods for the treatment of muscular disease, and related screening methods

The invention features a method for determining whether a candidate compound is a non-peptide agonist of a peptide hormone receptor. In this method, a candidate compound is exposed to a form of the peptide hormone receptor, or to a protein that interacts with a peptide hormone receptor, which has an enhanced ability to amplify the intrinsic activity of a non-peptide agonist. The second messenger signaling activity of the enhanced receptor is measured in the presence of the candidate compound, and compared to the second messenger signaling activity of the wildtype receptor measured in the absence of the candidate compound. A change in second messenger signaling activity indicates that the candidate compound is an agonist. An increase in second messenger signaling activity indicates that the compound is either a full or partial positive agonist; a decrease in second messenger signaling activity indicates that the compound is an inverse (also termed a 'negative') agonist. The invention further embraces a method of using a peptide hormone receptor agonist for the treatment or prevention of a physiological disease, as well as particular enhanced receptors and the nucleic acid sequences which code for them.

Assay for and uses of peptide hormone receptor agonists

The invention features a method for determining whether a candidate compound is a non-peptide agonist of a peptide hormone receptor. In this method, a candidate compound is exposed to a form of the peptide hormone receptor which has an enhanced ability to amplify the intrinsic activity of a non-peptide agonist. The second messenger signaling activity of the enhanced receptor is measured in the presence of the candidate compound, and compared to the second messenger signaling activity of the enhanced receptor measured in the absence of the candidate compound. A change in second messenger signaling activity indicates that the candidate compound is an agonist. An increase in second messenger signaling activity indicates that the compound is either a full or partial positive agonist; a decrease in second messenger signaling activity indicates that the compound is an inverse (also termed a 'negative') agonist.

Assay for non-peptide agonists to peptide hormone receptors

The invention features a method for determining whether a candidate compound is a non-peptide agonist of a peptide hormone receptor. In this method, a candidate compound is exposed to a form of the peptide hormone receptor which has an enhanced ability to amplify the intrinsic activity of a non-peptide agonist. The second messenger signaling activity of the enhanced receptor is measured in the presence of the candidate compound, and compared to the second messenger signaling activity of the enhanced receptor measured in the absence of the candidate compound. A change in second messenger signaling activity indicates that the candidate compound is an agonist. An increase in second messenger signaling activity indicates that the compound is either a full or partial positive agonist; a decrease in second messenger signaling activity indicates that the compound is an inverse (also termed a `negative`) agonist.

The invention features purified nucleic acids encoding the mammalian gastrin/CCK-B receptor family. The invention also features a) the gastrin and CCK-B receptor polypeptides, b) a method of identifying antagonists to the gastrin or CCK-B receptors, and c) a parietal cell cDNA expression library.

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Wellesley, MA, United States of America

Alan S Kopin