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USOO9393221B2 (12) United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 9,393,221 B2 W (45) Date of Patent: Jul.19, 2016 (54) METHODS AND COMPOUNDS FOR FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS REDUCING INTRACELLULAR LIPID STORAGE WO WO2007096,251 8, 2007 OTHER PUBLICATIONS (75) Inventor: Sean Wu, Brookline, MA (US) Onyesom and Agho, Asian J. Sci. Res., Oct. 2010, vol. 4, No. 1, p. (73) Assignee: THE GENERAL, HOSPITAL 78-83. CORPORATION, Boston, MA (US) Davis et al., Br J Clin Pharmacol., 1996, vol. 4, p. 415-421.* Schweiger et al., Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab, 2009, vol. 279, E289-E296. (*) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this Maryam Ahmadian et al., Desnutrin/ATGL is regulated by AMPK patent is extended or adjusted under 35 and is required for a brown adipose phenotype, Cell Metabolism, vol. U.S.C. 154(b) by 748 days. 13, pp. 739-748, 2011. Mohammadreza Bozorgmanesh et al., Diabetes prediction, lipid (21) Appl. 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These com U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS pounds are useful for the treatment and prevention of lipid/ glycogen disorders, as well as for the treatment and preven 7,449.482 B2 11/2008 Cheng et al. tion of obesity. A high throughput screen for identifying 7,855,289 B2 12/2010 Nunes et al. 2001/0048980 A1 12/2001 Kishimoto et al. compounds that reduce intracellular lipid accumulation in 2007/0275997 A1 11, 2007 Frenneaux cells is also provided. 2009/0324682 A1 12/2009 Popowski 2011/0048980 A1 3/2011 Seman 9 Claims, 15 Drawing Sheets U.S. Patent Jul. 19, 2016 Sheet 1 of 15 US 9,393,221 B2 #################### V,±0IJI #################### agerse SSX 38 I’01), U.S. Patent Jul. 19, 2016 Sheet 2 of 15 US 9,393,221 B2 ------------ S33: E. s E. ran as R s w as rise ces gas ca a. warra a s s se s A 383d 8 ex es e e SSX 3 2. s was e R s w w c s i SSX 3 SS U.S. Patent Jul. 19, 2016 Sheet 3 of 15 US 9,393,221 B2 (Of’91)I {{#######{}{}&&############3 U.S. Patent Jul. 19, 2016 Sheet 4 of 15 US 9,393,221 B2 }} {}}} # {} age s’ acs x 8. U.S. Patent Jul. 19, 2016 Sheet 5 Of 15 US 9,393,221 B2 U.S. Patent Jul. 19, 2016 Sheet 7 Of 15 US 9,393,221 B2 . 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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED Given the lack of specific therapies for lipid/glycogen stor APPLICATIONS age diseases, there is need in the art for compositions and methods for treatment of these disorders. This application claims the benefit under 35 U.S.CS119(e) of U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/509,890, filed Jul. 20, SUMMARY 2011, which is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety. 10 Embodiments of the present invention are based, in part, on SEQUENCE LISTING the establishment of a high throughput assay for the identifi cation of compounds capable of modulating intracellular The instant application contains a Sequence Listing which lipid storage. The inventors have generated both a murine and has been submitted in ASCII format via EFS-Web and is 15 human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) model system of hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety. Said ASCII neutral lipid storage disease, myopathy subtype (NLSD-M), a copy, created on Jul. 25, 2012, is named 071061 US.txt and is condition characterized by aberrant lipid accumulation in 12,530 bytes in size. cardiac and skeletal muscle that results from the loss of func FIELD OF INVENTION tional adipose triglyceride lipase (ATGL). They demonstrate that differentiated ATGL-knockout (KO) iPSCs and human The invention relates to methods, compounds and compo mutant iPSCs exhibit significantly increased lipid accumula sitions for the treatment of lipid/glycogen storage disorders tion compared to differentiated control iPSCs, and using a and obesity. high throughput platform for iPSC differentiation and small 25 molecule screening have identified compounds that reduce BACKGROUND lipid accumulation within both mouse and human NLSD-M iPSCs and extended the mean life span of ATGK knock out Metabolic disorders, such as lipid storage disease and gly mice by 30% (from 13 to 17 weeks). They have also deter cogen storage disease, can have devastating effects on mined that inhibitors of intracellular lipid storage shift cellu patients. The Lipid storage diseases represent a group of 30 lar energy metabolism from fatty acid oxidation to glycolysis. disorders in which harmful amounts of lipids accumulate in Thus, compounds selected using the high throughput Screen various cells and tissues in the body. Glycogen storage dis are useful for the treatment and prevention of a variety of ease is the result of defects in the processing of glycogen lipid/glycogen storage disorders, as well are useful for the synthesis or breakdown within cells. Individuals with lipid/ treatment of obesity. glycogen storage disorders either do not produce enough of 35 Accordingly, in one aspect, the invention provides for a one of the enzymes needed to breakdown (metabolize) lipids, method of reducing intracellular lipid accumulation in a cell or glycogen, or they produce enzymes that do not work prop comprising a contacting the cell with an effective amount of erly. Over time, this excessive storage of fats and glycogen a compound selected from Table 1. In one embodiment, the can cause permanent cellular and tissue damage, for example, compound is selected from a compound listed in Table 2. In in the heart, muscle, brain, peripheral nervous system, liver, 40 one embodiment the compound is selected from a compound spleen, and bone marrow.