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April 03, 2018; 90 (14) ArticleOpen Access

Randomized dose-escalation trial of elamipretide in adults with primary mitochondrial myopathy

Amel Karaa, Richard Haas, Amy Goldstein, Jerry Vockley, W. Douglas Weaver, Bruce H. Cohen
First published March 2, 2018, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000005255
Amel Karaa
From the Genetics Unit (A.K.), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; UC San Diego School of Medicine (R.H.), La Jolla, CA; Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh (A.G., J.V.), PA; Stealth BioTherapeutics (W.D.W.), Newton, MA; and Akron Children's Hospital (B.H.C.), OH.
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Richard Haas
From the Genetics Unit (A.K.), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; UC San Diego School of Medicine (R.H.), La Jolla, CA; Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh (A.G., J.V.), PA; Stealth BioTherapeutics (W.D.W.), Newton, MA; and Akron Children's Hospital (B.H.C.), OH.
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Amy Goldstein
From the Genetics Unit (A.K.), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; UC San Diego School of Medicine (R.H.), La Jolla, CA; Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh (A.G., J.V.), PA; Stealth BioTherapeutics (W.D.W.), Newton, MA; and Akron Children's Hospital (B.H.C.), OH.
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Jerry Vockley
From the Genetics Unit (A.K.), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; UC San Diego School of Medicine (R.H.), La Jolla, CA; Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh (A.G., J.V.), PA; Stealth BioTherapeutics (W.D.W.), Newton, MA; and Akron Children's Hospital (B.H.C.), OH.
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W. Douglas Weaver
From the Genetics Unit (A.K.), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; UC San Diego School of Medicine (R.H.), La Jolla, CA; Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh (A.G., J.V.), PA; Stealth BioTherapeutics (W.D.W.), Newton, MA; and Akron Children's Hospital (B.H.C.), OH.
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Bruce H. Cohen
From the Genetics Unit (A.K.), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; UC San Diego School of Medicine (R.H.), La Jolla, CA; Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh (A.G., J.V.), PA; Stealth BioTherapeutics (W.D.W.), Newton, MA; and Akron Children's Hospital (B.H.C.), OH.
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Randomized dose-escalation trial of elamipretide in adults with primary mitochondrial myopathy
Amel Karaa, Richard Haas, Amy Goldstein, Jerry Vockley, W. Douglas Weaver, Bruce H. Cohen
Neurology Apr 2018, 90 (14) e1212-e1221; DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000005255

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Abstract

Objective To assess the safety and efficacy of elamipretide, an aromatic-cationic tetrapeptide that readily penetrates cell membranes and transiently localizes to the inner mitochondrial membrane where it associates with cardiolipin, in adults with primary mitochondrial myopathy (PMM).

Methods A Study Investigating the Safety, Tolerability, and Efficacy of MTP-131 for the Treatment of Mitochondrial Myopathy (MMPOWER) was a phase I/II multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of elamipretide in 36 participants with genetically confirmed PMM. Participants were randomized to intravenous elamipretide (0.01, 0.1, and 0.25 mg/kg/h or placebo for 2 hours in a dose-escalating sequence). The primary efficacy measure was the change in distance walked in the 6-minute walk test (6MWT) after 5 days of treatment. Other efficacy measures included changes in cardiopulmonary exercise testing parameters, in participant-reported symptoms, and in serum and urinary biomarkers. Safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetics were also measured.

Results Participants who received the highest dose of elamipretide walked a mean of 64.5 m farther at day 5 compared to a change of 20.4 m in the placebo group (p = 0.053). In addition, there was a dose-dependent increase in distance walked on the 6MWT with elamipretide treatment (p = 0.014). In a model that adjusted for additional covariates possibly affecting response, the adjusted change for the highest dose of elamipretide was 51.2 vs 3.0 m in the placebo group (p = 0.0297). No significant differences were observed in other efficacy and safety endpoints.

Conclusions Elamipretide increased exercise performance after 5 days of treatment in patients with PMM without increased safety concerns. These findings, as well as additional functional and patient-reported measures, remain to be tested in larger trials with longer treatment periods to detect other potential therapeutic benefits in individuals affected by this condition.

Classification of evidence This trial provides Class I evidence that for patients with PMM, elamipretide improved the distance walked on the 6MWT.

Glossary

ANCOVA=
analysis of covariance;
ATP=
adenosine triphosphate;
CPET=
cardiopulmonary exercise testing;
FGF-21=
fibroblast growth factor-21;
MMPOWER=
A Study Investigating the Safety, Tolerability, and Efficacy of MTP-131 for the Treatment of Mitochondrial Myopathy;
mtDNA=
mitochondrial DNA;
NMDAS=
Newcastle Mitochondrial Disease Adult Scale;
PMD=
primary mitochondrial disorder;
PMM=
primary mitochondrial myopathy;
6MWT=
6-minute walk test

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  • Go to Neurology.org/N for full disclosures. Funding information and disclosures deemed relevant by the authors, if any, are provided at the end of the article.

  • The Article Processing Charge was funded by Stealth BioTherapeutics.

  • Class of Evidence: NPub.org/coe

  • CME Course: NPub.org/cmelist

  • Editorial, page 633

  • Received June 14, 2017.
  • Accepted in final form December 12, 2017.
  • Copyright © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of the American Academy of Neurology.

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