Patent Application: US-25976294-A

Abstract:
method and compositions for treating a mammal by administering to that mammal an insulin and an amylin using specific molar ratios of an insulin to an amylin .

Description:
fig1 is a representation , using standard single letter nomenclature to represent amino acids , of the amino acid sequence of amylin and related polypeptides ; fig2 is a graphical representation of insulin dose response in rat soleus muscle ; fig3 is a graphical representation of a family of insulin dose response curves with different fixed concentrations of amylin ; fig4 is a graphical representation of a family of amylin dose response curves with different fixed concentrations of insulin ; fig5 is a graphical representation showing an insulin / amylin dose response surface , the lines labelled 1 , 14 , and 100 representing the predicted responses for insulin / amylin mixtures where amylin is at 1 %, 14 % and 100 % of the molar concentration of insulin , respectively . fig6 is a graphical representation showing response to increasing insulin and amylin concentration in a fixed ratio of 7 to 1 ; the upper line shows the sigmoid dose response for insulin alone ; fig7 is a graphical representation showing amylin dose response curves utilizing three different methods for measuring experimental amylin concentrations ; and fig8 is a graphical representation of liver glycogen levels in rats , showing the effect of insulin and insulin / amylin combinations in restoring glycogen levels in streptozotoan - treated diabetic rats . fig9 shows the reduction in post - meal plasma glucose levels , or &# 34 ; glucose smoothing &# 34 ; effect , produced in diabetics administered 30 micrograms of tripro - amylin three times per day over 14 days . fig1 shows the reduction in post - meal plasma glucose levels , or &# 34 ; glucose smoothing &# 34 ; effect , produced in diabetics administered 100 micrograms of tripro - amylin three times per day over 14 days . fig1 shows the reduction in post - meal plasma glucose levels , or &# 34 ; glucose smoothing &# 34 ; effect , produced in diabetics administered 300 micrograms of tripro - amylin three times per day over 14 days . the following experiments in examples 1 and 2 demonstrate the interaction of amylin and insulin in an in vitro and an in vivo test format . these experiments illustrate the surprising nature of interaction of the two hormones in regulation of glycogen metabolism . as described in more detail below , at low to moderate rates of insulin secretion , the range for most physiologic situations , the response to insulin in the presence of amylin in not much altered . the slope of the insulin dose response is reduced as amylin concentrations begin to reach levels that significantly depress the insulin response . the maximum response achievable is considerably lower than the maximum that could be elicited by insulin alone . as insulin and amylin concentrations rise further , into ranges not normally expected to occur , the insulin response actually declines as increasing amylin action further depresses the functional response to insulin . example 3 shows the beneficial effects of administration of representative doses of an amylin ( the amylin agonist , &# 34 ; tripro - amylin &# 34 ;) to insulin - requiring diabetics in human clinical trials . male harlan sprague dawley rats of approximately 200 g mass were used in order to maintain soleus muscle mass less than 40 mg . the animals were fasted for 4 hours prior to sacrifice by decapitation . the skin was stripped from the lower limb which was then pinned out on cork board . the tendo achilles was cut just above os calcis and m . gastrocnemius reflected out from the posterior aspect of the tibia . m . soleus , a small 15 - 205 mm long , 0 . 55 mm thick flat muscle on the bone surface of m . gastrocnemius was then stripped clear and the perimysium cleaned off using fine scissors and forceps . m . soleus was then split into equal parts using a blade passed antero - posteriorly through the belly of the muscle to obtain a total of 4 muscle strips from each animal . after dissecting the muscle from the animal , it was kept for a short period in physiological saline . the muscle was not held under tension , as reported in other methodologies since in our hands this had no demonstrable effect on the insulin - sensitivity of radioglucose incorporation into glycogen . muscles were added to 50 ml erlenmeyer flasks containing 10 ml of a pregassed krebs - ringer bicarbonate buffer containing ( mm ) nacl 118 . 5 ; kcl 5 . 94 ; cacl 2 2 . 54 ; mgso 4 1 . 19 ; kh 2 po 4 1 . 19 ; nahco 3 25 ; glucose 5 . 5 ; and recombinant human insulin ( humulin - r , eli lilly , ind .) and either synthetic rat ( bachem , torrance , calif . lot # zg485 ) or synthetic human amylin ( bachem , torrance , calif . lot # zh144 ) as detailed below . methods used to determine the nature and purity of rat and human amylin included quantitative amino acid analysis , gas phase amino acid sequencing , reverse phase hplc and fast - atom - bombardment mass spectrometry . by the latter two methods , purity was 98 . 4 and 97 . 9 % respectively . however , application of these methods failed to detect 1 atom of mercury per molecule of rat amylin , which was subsequently detected by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry and atomic absorption spectroscopy . subsequent analysis of the method of synthesis of the rat amylin suggests that this atom is interposed between the sulfur atoms of cysteine residues 2 and 7 , and therefore forms part of the ring structure near the amino - terminus . incorporation of mercury into rat amylin may be a feature of many commercially available batches that have already been used in published studies . since the peptide was bioactive , its action in muscle was expected to at least qualitatively mimic that of true rat amylin . the mercuric method of cyclization was not used in the synthesis of human amylin , which is found by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry and atomic absorption spectroscopy to be mercury - free . muscles were assigned to different flasks so that the four muscle pieces from each animal were evenly distributed among the different assay conditions . the incubation media were gassed by gently blowing carbogen ( 95 % o 2 , 5 % co 2 ) over the surface while it was continuously agitated at 37 ° c . in an oscillating water bath . ph of gassed media at 37 ° c . was verified as being between 7 . 1 and 7 . 4 . after a half - hour preincubation , 0 . 5 μci of u - 14 c !- glucose was added to each flask for a further 60 minutes . each muscle piece was then rapidly removed , trimmed of tendons , blotted , frozen in liquid n 2 , weighed and then stored at 20 ° c . for subsequent determination of 14 c - glycogen . the incubation medium was also frozen for subsequent analysis . the concentration of human amylin present in the medium at the end of the incubation was determined by radioimmunoassay in surfactant - containing buffer . for both human and rat amylin , the actual mass added to the incubation medium was determined by quantitative amino - acid analysis . each frozen muscle specimen was placed in a vial with 1 ml 60 % potassium hydroxide ( wt / vol ) and digested at 70 ° c . for 45 minutes under intermittent vigorous agitation . dissolved glycogen was precipitated onto the walls of the vial by addition of 3 ml absolute ethanol and overnight cooling at - 20 ° c . after centrifugation for 30 minutes at 2000 x -- g , the supernatant was gently aspirated , the glycogen was again washed with ethanol and centrifuged , the ethanol aspirated and the precipitate dried under vacuum . it was important to evaporate all ethanol to avoid quenching during scintillation counting . the remaining glycogen was redissolved in 1 ml water and 4 ml scintillation fluid and counted for 14 c . a rate of glucose incorporation into glycogen ( expressed in μmol / hr / g wet tissue ) was obtained from the specific activity of 14 c - glucose in the 5 . 5 mm glucose of the incubation medium , and the total 14 c counts remaining in the glycogen extracted from each muscle . dose response curves were fitted to a 4 - parameter logistic model using a least - squares iterative routine ( allfit , v2 . 7 , nih , md ) to derive ec 50 &# 39 ; s . since ec 50 is log - normally distributed , it is expressed ± standard error of the logarithm . pair - wise comparisons were performed using t - test based routines of systat . insulin dose response curves were obtained by incubation in media containing insulin added at final concentrations of 0 , 0 . 071 , 0 . 21 , 0 . 71 , 2 . 1 , 7 . 1 and 71 nm 1 / . amylin dose response curves were generated using muscles added to media containing 7 . 1 nm recombinant human insulin and either synthetic rat or synthetic human amylin ( bachem , torrance , calif .) added at final ( nominal ) concentrations of 0 , 1 , 3 , 10 , 30 , 100 , 300 and 1000 nm . a supraphysiological insulin concentration was used for two reasons : ( 1 ) the precision of estimation of ec 50 was related to the magnitude of 14 c incorporation into glycogen , so greater amylin suppression of the insulin response was possible with near - maximal insulin stimulation ; and ( 2 ) using an insulin response near the plateau ( asymptotic part ) of the dose response curve in contrast to the 50 % response obtained at the often - used insulin concentration of 710 pm minimized variation in response due to variation in the bathing insulin concentration or individual muscle insulin sensitivities . the effect of using higher insulin concentrations is seen in the reduced standard error of the amylin dose response ed 50 &# 39 ; s detailed in table 1 . each assay also contained internal positive controls consisting of a single batch ( bachem lot # 2g485 ) of archived rat amylin , lyophilized and stored at - 20 ° c . referring to fig9 data pooled from 5 amylin dose response assays performed on a single batch of human amylin in the presence of 7 . 1 nm insulin are shown . curve a was fitted to the data obtained when amylin concentration is derived from mass initially weighed out and diluted . curve b was fitted to data obtained when amylin concentration is derived from mass of peptide added to assay media as determined by quantitative amino - acid analysis . curve c was fitted to data obtained when amylin concentration in the assay media is measured by radioimmunoassay . the ec 50 for curve c is 438 pm ± 0 . 17 log units ( se ). the insulin / amylin dose response matrix was obtained by repeating the insulin dose response analyses with amylin added to nominal final concentrations of 0 , 3 , 10 , 30 , 100 and 300 nm , thereby generating a 6 × 6 table with quadruplicates at each combination of insulin and amylin concentrations . muscles were incubated in media containing synthetic rat amylin and recombinant human insulin added in a 1 : 7 . 1 molar ratio . data pooled from 7 insulin dose response assays performed in the absence of amylin are shown in fig2 . there was a 3 . 7 - fold increment in rate of glycogen labelling , with an ec 50 of the response of 1 . 05 nm ± 0 . 07 log units ( n = 8 to 28 per point ). fig3 shows a series of insulin dose response curves obtained in the presence of different amylin concentrations as indicated . data for the maxima and ec 50 &# 39 ; s of the insulin responses are presented in table 1 . they indicate that the ec 50 of the insulin response was not progressively right - shifted with increasing amylin concentrations . fig4 shows amylin dose response curves obtained with different insulin concentrations , as indicated . amylin ec 50 &# 39 ; s and maximal responses , presented in table 1 , similarly indicate that the ec 50 of the amylin response was independent of the prevailing insulin concentration . in other words , amylin could suppress labelling of glycogen at all insulin concentrations . fig5 combines the data from the insulin and amylin dose responses into a single fitted surface . the surface was generated as the product of fractional responses to insulin and amylin , using means of parameters for slope and ec 50 for the insulin and amylin transects , and plotted on log / log / linear axes . the equation thus has the general form . . . response = insulin factor !× amylin factor !× f + k where ## equ2 ## since the baseplane of the graph is defined by log insulin ! and log amylin ! axes , combinations of insulin and amylin in any given ratio are represented as straight lines on this plane . lines describing amylin : insulin ratios of 0 . 01 : 1 , 0 . 14 : 1 and 1 : 1 are projected up onto the surface ( labelled 0 . 01 , 0 . 14 and 1 respectively ). the experimentally determined response to increasing concentrations of a fixed 0 . 14 : 1 ratio of amylin : insulin are plotted as open circles in fig6 . the bell - shaped function generated from equation 1 , using amylin != insulin !× 0 . 14 , and which corresponds to the trajectory labelled &# 34 ; 0 . 14 &# 34 ; in fig5 is shown as a continuous line . also plotted is the sigmoid dose response predicted for insulin in the absence of amylin . the data conform to the bell - shaped profile predicted for non - competitive functional antagonism rather than to a shifted sigmoid response curve as would be predicted for competitive antagonism . the finding that the ec 50 &# 39 ; s for amylin and insulin action on soleus muscle are not altered by increasing concentrations of the other hormone are consistent with biochemical and pharmacological data indicating that they act via separate receptors rather than by competing at a common receptor . amylin behaves as a noncompetitive , functional antagonist to insulin . that is , amylin reduces the magnitude of the insulin response without affecting insulin potency . critically important for analyzing the role of amylin is the finding that it causes insurmountable inhibition of insulin action . amylin &# 39 ; s biological activity was originally described as an &# 34 ; antagonism &# 34 ; of the muscle response to insulin . some may therefore have considered that amylin and insulin represent self - canceling signals , and that if these hormones are secreted in a constant ratio , the effects of any increase in plasma amylin would be nullified by the proportionate increase in insulin . the &# 34 ; constant ratio &# 34 ; slices through the response surface ( fig4 ) instead predict that with any fixed ratios of insulin and amylin , suppression by amylin of the insulin response will eventually supervene as the concentrations of both hormones increase . this prediction was confirmed by the experiments shown in fig6 . if amylin and insulin were co - secreted in a fixed ratio , the bell - shaped trajectory of fig6 would represent the response of muscle to increasing secretion from the beta - cell . the peak height , the position and shape of the insulin : amylin bell - shaped curve are functions of the muscle sensitivities to insulin and amylin , and their concentration ratio . table 1______________________________________insuline dose response amylin ! maximal response ec . sub . 50nm μmol / g wet tissue / hr nm ( nominal ) mean mean ± log se______________________________________0 4 . 09 1 . 16 ± 0 . 103 3 . 45 0 . 78 ± 0 . 1210 3 . 12 1 . 52 ± 0 . 1530 2 . 13 1 . 33 ± 0 . 20100 1 . 15 undetermined300 0 . 93 undetermined______________________________________amylin dose response insulin ! maximal response ec . sub . 50nm μmol / g wet tissue / hr nm ( nominal ) mean ± sem mean ± log se______________________________________0 0 . 85 ± 0 . 17 12 . 15 ± 0 . 940 . 21 1 . 26 ± 0 . 18 10 . 27 ± 0 . 480 . 71 2 . 11 ± 0 . 18 8 . 24 ± 0 . 242 . 1 2 . 94 ± 0 . 18 10 . 45 ± 0 . 167 . 1 3 . 56 ± 0 . 19 8 . 69 ± 0 . 1371 4 . 07 ± 0 . 18 11 . 93 ± 0 . 11______________________________________ daily amylin replacement reverses hepatic glycogen depletion in insulin - treated streptozotocin diabetic rats . in streptozotocin - diabetic rats treated with insulin replacement , liver glycogen is some 35 % depleted . five consecutive daily subcutaneous injections with amylin dose - dependently restored liver glycogen to normal levels . significant increases over insulin - only therapy occurred with amylin doses of 10 , 30 and 100 μg / day , representing amylin : insulin ratios of 0 . 22 , 0 . 75 and 2 . 79 . there were 68 male harlan sprague dawley rats ( mass 301 ± 3 g ) in 8 treatment groups . animals were housed at 22 . 7 ± 0 . 8 ° c . in a 12 : 12 hour light : dark cycle ( experiments being performed during the light cycle ) and fed and watered ad libitum ( diet lm - 485 , teklad , madison , wis .). the rats were sacrificed for harvesting of livers 4 to 5 hours into the light cycle . animals were injected with streptozotocin ( sigma chemical company , st louis , mo . : sigma 50130 ) dissolved in water in a dose of 65 mg / kg into the lateral tail vein . upon exhibiting 5 % glycosuria ( chemstrip ugh , boehringer - mannheim , frg ), rats were commenced upon a sliding - scale daily insulin treatment regime ( humulin - ultralente , eli lilly , indianapolis , ind .) aimed towards maintaining aketonuria ( by chemstrip ) but 5 % glycosuria . maintaining diabetic rats in this metabolic state optimizes survival . following one week of established diabetes , animals received once daily s . c . injections of amylin vehicle ( water for injection ) for 5 days given at the time of the insulin injection . these animals were treated identically to those in group 1 except that the daily subcutaneous injection contained 3 μg ( n = 5 ); 10 μg ( n = 12 ); 30 μg ( n = 5 ); 100 μg ( n = 5 ) or 300 μg ( n = 5 ) of rat amylin ( bachem lot # wg485 2 / ). the bioactivity of the peptide used in these experiments was first verified by bioassay , using inhibition of insulin - stimulated radioglucose incorporation into glycogen in the isolated stripped rat soleus muscle . the ec 50 derived for the peptide used was 6 . 2 nm (± 0 . 2 log unit ). the insulin dose in each of the groups of diabetic animals averaged 1 . 67 u / animal / day . there were no other observable differences in the required management of the different groups . these animals were derived from the same stock and housed under the same conditions for the same time as those in groups 1 - 6 , but were given no injections . 24 hours after the fifth daily injection of amylin or water ( or an equivalent time after admission to the vivarium in the case of group 7 rats ), the non - fasted rats were killed by decapitation and the livers immediately removed and frozen in liquid n 2 , weighed and stored for subsequent determination of glycogen concentration . these animals were made diabetic as were groups 1 - 6 , but received neither insulin nor amylin . whole livers were powdered while frozen . approximately 200 mg of powder was further homogenized in 1 . 0 ml of 0 . 6m perchloric acid to denature enzymes . 200 μl of the homogenate was neutralized with 0 . 5 volumes of 1 . 0m khco 3 in either of two acetate buffer solutions , one containing 2 . 0 ml of 200 mm acetate ( ph4 . 8 ), the other containing the same but with 18 . 5 u / ml of amyloglucosidase ( ec5 3 . 2 . 1 . 3 , from aspergillus nicer , sigma a3423 , sigma chemical company , st louis , mo .) added . following at least 20 minutes incubation at 23 ° c ., the supernatants were assayed for glucose in an analyzer using d - glucose oxidase immobilized enzyme chemistry ( analyzer model 2300 - stat , ysi , yellow springs , ohio ). purified rabbit liver glycogen ( sigma g8876 ) used as a standard indicated 98 ± 4 % recovery of dissolved glycogen and linearity within the range of observed liver glycogen concentrations ( r = 0 . 9994 ). all reagents were of analytical grade or better . statistical comparisons were by student &# 39 ; s t - test routines contained in the systat system ( systat , evanston , ill .). all results are reported as means ± standard error of the mean . liver glycogen content was measured in rats with free access to food up to the time of sacrifice ( fasting rapidly depletes liver glycogen , such that the levels after 18 - hours starvation are typically only 2 - 5 % of those observed in the fed state ). glycogen contents for the 8 groups of animals are shown in fig8 . stz diabetic animals on no therapy showed a 67 % decrease in liver glycogen concentration compared to normal rats ( 2 . 86 vs 8 . 6 mg / g , p & lt ; 0 . 001 ). stz diabetic animals receiving insulin replacement had a 35 % decrease in liver glycogen compared to normal rats ( 5 . 6 vs 8 . 6 mg / g , p & lt ; 0 . 01 ). in insulin - treated stz diabetic rats supplemented with daily amylin , there was a dose - dependent increase in liver glycogen concentration above that in rats replaced with insulin alone ( p & lt ; 0 . 05 , 10 μg / day ; p & lt ; 0 . 02 , 30 μg / day ; p & lt ; 0 . 01 , 100 μg / day ). the liver glycogen concentration in animals receiving 10 , 30 and 100 μg amylin per day was not significantly different from that in normal animals ( p & lt ; 0 . 3 ), although the mean values showed a dose - dependent increase with an apparent peak at 30μg / day . the lowest dose examined , 3 μg / day did not measurably increase glycogen levels above those treated with insulin alone . interestingly , the highest dose of amylin tested , 300 μg / day , also did not measurably restore liver glycogen towards normal , giving an apparently biphasic dose - response . the results show that combined replacement of amylin and insulin can restore normal levels of liver glycogen in stz - diabetic rats ; full restoration is not achieved with insulin alone . this physiological response is caused by a once - daily subcutaneous injection in a molar ratio of amylin to insulin close to that thought to occur naturally in healthy animals . human clinical trials were conducted with an amylin agonist , 25 , 28 , 29 pro - h - amylin ( also referred to as &# 34 ; tripro - amylin &# 34 ; or &# 34 ; ac - 0137 &# 34 ;). in a total of three studies with more than 100 volunteer patients with juvenile - onset ( type 1 ) diabetes , the administration of tripro - amylin helped to better control their blood glucose by reducing average blood glucose after a meal . the results were statistically significant and are medically relevant in view of the blood glucose control problems that plague diabetics throughout their lives and , more specifically , for example , because of the abnormally high post - meal glucose levels typical of juvenile - onset diabetes which are understood to be a continuing factor in the onset of long - term medical complications , including blindness , kidney failure , and nerve damage . in a 14 - day double - blind , placebo controlled clinical study , for example , patients with juvenile - onset diabetes who continued their usual insulin therapy and self - injected tripro - amylin three times daily had lower average blood glucose levels after a test meal than did patients who received insulin and placebo . as shown in fig9 - 11 , after 14 days , a statistically significant ( p = 0 . 02 ) glucose smoothing effect ( measured as area under the glucose curve ) was observed at the 30 , 100 , and 300 micrograms / dose level . see also table 2 below . this effect was , importantly , also observed at 7 days . these thrice - daily doses of tripro - amylin reflect per day dosages of , respectively , 90 , 300 , and 900 micrograms per patient . for a patient of average weight , about 70 kg , these reflect doses of 1 . 3 μg / kg / day , 4 . 3 μg / kg / day , and 12 . 9 μg / kg / day . an average per day insulin dose is about 50 units , or 2000 micrograms . table 2__________________________________________________________________________change in post meal glucose after 14 days of tripro - amylintripro - amylin dose ( taken 3 times daily ) placebo 30 micrograms 100 micrograms 300 micrograms__________________________________________________________________________number of patients 21 15 22 12at 14 dayspost - meal glucose : mean of changes inauc ( mg / dl - min .) ( a ) + 229 - 6 , 645 - 6 , 412 - 7 , 316 &# 34 ; p &# 34 ; values vs . placebo ( b ) -- 0 . 02 0 . 02 0 . 11tripro - amylin plasma -- 22 ± 4 44 ± 14 173 ± 40peaks ( picomoles__________________________________________________________________________ ( a ) auc is area under the glucose concentration curve relative to premeal glucose value , between start of test meal and 3 hours later . change in au is value at predosing minus value at day 14 for each subject tested at da 14 . ( b ) p values obtained from a nonparametric wilcoxon test . the effect of tripro - amylin on smoothing post - meal blood glucose levels is an important finding for insulin - requiring diabetics , such as juvenile - onset diabetics ( most of whom have difficulty controlling their blood glucose with insulin alone ). the tripro - amylin - induced reductions in auc accompanied average reductions of 45 mg / dl to 60 mg / dl in the peak blood glucose concentrations of the clinical trial subjects . these results are also important for diabetic subjects , because eating often causes their blood glucose to rise by 60 mg / dl to 160 mg / dl . by contrast , non - diabetic individuals typically show rises of only 30 mg / dl to 45 mg / dl after meals . the side effect profile for tripro - amylin in the 14 - day tests reveals that all measures of safety were satisfactory . the only adverse events which led a limited number of patients to discontinue the study were gastrointestinal side effects , mainly nausea , which were more frequent only in those patients receiving higher doses of drug . about 20 % of patients in the mid - and high - dose groups who reported nausea also experienced vomiting on one or more occasions . see table 3 below . table 3__________________________________________________________________________adverse eventstripro - amylin dose ( taken 3 times daily ) placebo 30 micrograms 100 micrograms 300 micrograms__________________________________________________________________________patients starting 22 18 23 21study ( a ) patients reporting any 4 5 13 20gastrointestinal symptomspatients reporting nausea 1 1 8 11for more than 7 dayspatients who withdrew 0 1 1 8from the study withnauseapatients reporting other 0 0 0 0events resulting in earlydiscontinuation__________________________________________________________________________ ( a ) in addition to the patients who withdrew from the study due to nausea four patients who entered the study were not evaluable or did not complet the study for reasons apparently unrelated to study medication . following an overnight fast , patients in the 14 - day study were challenged with insulin twice : prior to the start of dosing , and after 14 days of placebo or tripro - amylin therapy . the insulin challenge was designed to pharmacologically induce hypoglycemia in a controlled and reproducible manner . in this test , tripro - amylin treatment did not measurably alter the glucose reponse compared to that seen in the placebo group . those of ordinary skill in the art reviewing both examples above will recognize that the data indicate to one of ordinary skill in the art that administration of insulin and amylin in the indicated ratios will be an effective treatment for diabetes in humans . such amylin and insulin can be administered in any standard manner using pharmaceutically acceptable buffers . for example , the hormones may be administered in a form which causes delayed release of the hormones within the body . __________________________________________________________________________sequence listing ( 1 ) general information :( iii ) number of sequences : 13 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 1 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 37 amino acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : peptide ( iii ) hypothetical : no ( iv ) anti - 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