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"Detection before disease"

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What is Pronucleon™ Technology?

Pronucleon™ is a platform technology using custom-synthesized peptides that allow detection of misfolding proteins. Typical recognition molecules (e.g. antibodies, aptamers) used in currently available diagnostic assays for amyloid proteins are not particularly sensitive to protein conformational state.

An example of the implementation of Presympto's technology is the creation of peptides that are sensitive and specific for detecting oligomeric forms of Aβ for Alzheimer's disease diagnosis.

 

What are the Market Opportunities?

Alzheimer’s Disease

  • Pronucleon™, for Aβ oligomer detection
    • Bodily fluid (CSF, blood, tissue) based assays
    • Ophthalmic imaging
    • Brain imaging

Other Misfolding Protein Diseases

  • Prion-related
  • Parkinson’s
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Therapeutic Potential


Molecular dynamic modeling used to generate next generation probes for early disease causing aggregates of amyloid

Published Ab42 Fiber Structure * T. Petkova, W. M. Yau, and R. Tycko, "Experimental constraints on quaternary structure in Alzheimer's beta-amyloid fibrils", Biochemistry 45, 498-512 (2006