St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Coa Therapeutics, Inc.

Charles O Rock

Richard Edward Lee

Mi Kyung Yun

Chitra Subramanian

Suzanne Jackowski

Robert J Zamboni

T Jagadeeswar Reddy

Jiuyu Liu

Rajendra P Tangallapally

Anne V Edwards

Lalit Kumar Sharma

Richard E Lee

Richard John Heath

The present disclosure relates to chemical compounds that modulate pantothenate kinase (PanK) activity for the treatment of metabolic disorders (such as diabetes mellitus type II), neurologic disorders (such as pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration), pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds, and their use in treatment. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.

Small molecule modulators of pantothenate kinases

The present disclosure relates to methods of treating a coenzyme A reduction, elevation, sequestration, toxicity, or redistribution (CASTOR) disease such as, for example, defects in fatty acid oxidation enzymes, methylmalonic acidemia, glutaric acidemia, propionic academia, and HMG-CoA lyase, via small molecule modulators of CoA levels. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.

Methods of treating disorders associated with castor

The present provides structurally related enzymes that act as enoyl reductases. These enoyl reductases share a common amino acid consensus sequence, and bind a flavin cofactor. One particular enoyl reductase provided, FabK, catalyzes the identical reaction as the NADH-dependent enoyl-ACP reductase, FabI. Nucleic acids encoding the enoyl reductases, the enoyl reductases, and anitbodies for the enoyl reductases are also included. Methods are also provides for identifying agents that can act to prevent and/or treat bacterial infections.

Enoyl reductases and methods of use thereof

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Bartlett, TN, United States of America

Charles O Rock