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BACE2 as a new diabetes target: a patent review (2010 – 2012)

, BSc MSc PhD
Pages 649-663 | Published online: 18 Mar 2013
 

Abstract

Introduction: When two novel aspartyl proteases were published in 1999 and 2000, beta-site APP-cleaving enzyme 1 (BACE1) was confirmed as the long sought after beta-secretase and Alzheimer's disease drug target. However, the role of its paralogue, BACE2, proved elusive until a 2011 publication implicated it as a Collectrin (TMEM27) secretase controlling pancreatic beta-cell proliferation and a new therapeutic intervention for diabetes.

Areas covered: This review, using SureChemOpen, encompasses early validation compounds and small-molecule BACE2 inhibitors for diabetes. Since 2010, one assay patent and several chemical series have been published by Roche but these were followed by filings from Novartis and Schering in 2012. The patents from these three companies include BACE2-only filings but also some specifying both BACE1 and BACE2 inhibitors.

Expert opinion: Roche's early collaborative target validation has given them a lead in BACE2 medicinal chemistry. However, the extensive data output for BACE1 in patents and papers over the last decade, plus liganded crystal structures for both proteases, should expedite the design of BACE2 inhibitors by other organisations. This may also shorten the development time for clinical candidates that, unlike those now entering Phase I trials for BACE1, would not need to be brain-penetrant.

Acknowledgement

The author would like to thank both Referees for their perceptive and detailed comments that enhanced the final version of this work.

Note added in proof

An updated version of Table 1, including some new 2013 BACE2 patents, can be accessed at http://figshare.com/articles/BACE2_patents/643815.

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