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The chemical structure of rapamycin.

Rapamycin, also known by its brand name Rapamune®, is a compound used to prevent the rejection of organ transplants by the immune system. Rapamycin is a natural antifungal produced by soil bacteria of Eastern Island, named after its native island, Rapa Nui.[1]

Rapamycin was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in September 1999 and is marketed under the trade name Rapamune® by Pfizer.[2] Rapamycin has an immunosuppressant function that is especially useful in preventing rejection of kidney transplants by the immune system. It is also used to coat coronary stents, and to treat rare lung diseases.[3] The patent on rapamycin has expired, and pharmacological companies have developed similar drugs such as everolimus.[4]

Rapamycin has been shown to extend healthy lifespan in worms, yeast, flies, and mice.[5] Some physicians and scientists have thus suggested that rapamycin may slow down aging.[6][7]

Scientists who study the biology of aging believe that, due to evidence of rapamycin slowing aging in animals, it could be used to prevent the onset of all age-related diseases in humans – to become one of the first identified “anti-aging drugs”.[6][8] It is being repurposed for humans as an anti-aging drug in the PEARL clinical study, which is expected to conclude in 2023.[9]

Evidence of lifespan extension

Dogs

There is preliminary evidence that rapamycin may prevent age-related decline in dogs. One study showed statistically significant improvements in heart function in dogs receiving rapamycin, relative to those that received placebo, similar to what has been observed in older laboratory mice.[10]

Mice

In multiple studies in different breeds of mice, rapamycin demonstrates a robust effect on increasing healthy lifespan. Rapamycin significantly extends lifespan in approximately 90% of the mice models it has been tested in.[11]

In 2009, rapamycin was shown to increase the lifespan of both male and female mice when given in late life (600 days).[12] Mean survival was extended by 28% for males and 38% for females, while maximal lifespan increased by 9% for males and 14% for females.[12] This was the first evidence that the lifespan of a mammal could be significantly increased by a pharmacological drug. This mouse study is special because the results were obtained following the US National Institute on Aging's Interventions Testing Program (ITP) protocol. The ITP is regarded as the gold standard for testing drugs that target aging.[13]

The landmark 2009 study also showed that rapamycin could increase healthy lifespan when given in old age. This has important implications for human testing, as it suggests that the drug might still exhibit healthspan and lifespan benefits even when given to the elderly. Rapamycin contrasts with calorie restriction in this regard; some evidence suggests that calorie restriction needs to be practised from early adulthood, and may even fail to provide benefit for animals that are already old.[14]

Rapidly aging mice models

Using a mouse model that mimics the accelerated aging disease Hutchinson-Gilford progeria, rapamycin was shown to increase lifespan by over 50%. It also improved cardiac and skeletal muscle function in these mice.[15] In one short-lived mutant strain of mice that mimics Leigh syndrome, rapamycin was shown to extend maximum life span nearly three-fold.[16]

Middle-aged mice

Several recent studies have shown that rapamycin can extend the lifespan of middle-aged mice. One study showed that treating 20-month-old mice (the equivalent of 56–69 years in humans) with a high dose of rapamycin for only 3 months resulted in a dramatic increase in median lifespan of up to 60%.[17] A study from 2020 showed that administering rapamycin in late life enhanced the lifespan of male but not female mice, providing evidence for sex differences in rapamycin response.[18] These studies were important because it suggests that rapamycin could be used in older adults, so that dosing would not need to start at youth for health benefits.

Yeast

Inhibition of TOR signalling by rapamycin significantly increases the lifespan of yeast known as Saccharomyces cerevisiae.[19]

Flies

Rapamycin extends the lifespan of the fruitfly, Drosophila melanogaster. The extent of lifespan extension observed is beyond what is achievable by flies undergoing other pro-longevity interventions like dietary restriction, or in mutant flies with mild decrements in insulin/insulin-like growth factor signaling (IIS).[20] Combining rapamycin with two other drugs that target metabolic pathways, lithium and trametinib, results in additive lifespan extension effects, substantially increasing Drosophila lifepsan by 48%.[21]

Roundworms

TOR inhibition by rapamycin extends lifespan of Caenorhabditis Elegans, a roundworm species with an extensive research history in the aging biology field. The beneficial effects of rapamycin in C. elegans is mediated via the SKN-1/Nrf and DAF-16/FoxO pathways.[22]

Age-related diseases

Rapamycin has been investigated in specific diseases, showing major impacts on reducing mouse cancer risk, cardiac diseases, neurodegenerative-like processes, and many other pathologies.[23]

Cancer

In the transgenic HER-2/neu mouse model, mice die prematurely due to susceptibility to cancer.[24] Rapamycin was hypothesized to improve survival in this model due to its ability to slow aging, which would also address an age-related disease like cancer.[24] The drug was shown to extend maximal lifespan, by delaying aging in multiple different organs and also suppressing cancer development.[24]

Other studies suggest that rapamycin can extend lifespan in mouse models where cancer naturally develops, such as in mice prone to cancer due to the Apc tumor suppressor gene mutation, or in mice heterozygous for the Rb1 tumor supressor gene, among others.[25][26][27]

Heart Disease

In one study that investigated the effects of rapamycin administration in naturally aged mice, improvements in cardiac muscle stiffness, diastolic function were observed.[28] Improvements in heart function were shown with only a brief treatment course of 8 weeks.[28] Benefits persisted even after rapamycin was stopped, which appears consistent with the hypothesis that rapamycin slows aging.[28]

Alzheimer's

Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease for which age is the greatest risk factor. In an Alzheimer's model of transgenic PDAPP mice, rapamycin was shown to reduce Amyloid-β, one of the hallmark indicators of AD.[29] This led to alleviation of AD-like symptoms, such as restored cognition and memory.[29]

Dose response

Rapamycin has shown a dose-response in which higher doses produce larger lifespan extension effects. UMHET3 mice of diverse genetic background were treated with varying doses of dietary rapamycin at 4.7, 14, or 42 ppm, revealing that those fed with the highest rapamycin dose had the greatest lifespan extension.[30][31] Sex differences in response to rapamycin have been hypothesized to also be related to the effective dose, due to male/female differences in drug metabolism. The optimal dose for longevity in mice remains to be seen, but determining this dose will require consideration of the side effect profile of rapamycin.[31]

Mechanism

Manipulating key metabolic pathways

Rapamycin has often been described as a 'calorie restriction (CR) mimetic'.[32] This is in part because, similar to CR, it inhibits the nutrient-sensing mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway.[33] mTOR plays key roles in cellular growth in response to amino acids, including effects that inhibit cancer and aging mechanisms.[33][34] However, later studies have disentangled the effects of rapamycin from that of caloric restriction, showing that they differ significantly.[32] This has important implications for understanding biological aging, including the possibility of using CR and rapalogues in combination therapy to slow aging.[32]

Fasting and calorie restriction inhibit muscle-specific mTOR signaling with reduced effect in old vs young mice, indicating a poorer autophagy and proteosomal degradation response with age.[35][36] However, the ability for rapamycin to inhibit mTOR appears to remain robust throughout life, and significant extension of median and maximal lifespan can be achieved even when treatment is initiated in mid-to-late life.[37][38] It contrasts significantly with CR, as the former appears effective in late life, while the latter is potentially detrimental when used in late life in mice models. Rapamycin also targets multiple aspects of aging, but in a segmented, tissue-specific manner.

mTORC1 and mTORC2

In non-mammals the mTOR equivalent is known as the target of rapamycin (TOR), first discovered by Michael Hall in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.[39] mTOR signalling appears to be evolutionarily conserved, and this extends further to include various mammals, such as mice, rats, and dogs.

Rapamycin acts on mTOR, with multiple signaling functions subdivided across two major protein complexes known as mTORC1 and mTORC2.[33] There is some evidence suggesting that the health and lifespan benefit of rapamycin is more related to mTORC1 than mTORC2.[40][41] In mice, males exhibit weaker lifespan extension effects from rapamycin than in females. One study suggests that inhibiting mTORC2 explains why there exists such a sex difference in the response to mTOR inhibition by rapamycin.[41]

Reducing the effects of cellular senescence

The accumulation of senescent cells is thought to be an important mechanism underlying aging. Rapamycin is regarded as a senomorphic that may inhibit the pro-inflammatory secretory phenotype produced by senescent cells in humans, mice, and rats.[42][43] A preliminary study in humans aged 40 years or older showed that topical rapamycin reduced markers of cellular senescence in the skin and improved its physical appearance.[44]

Human clinical trials

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Part of the rationale of the PEARL study is that an optimal dose of rapamycin may extend healthy lifespan.

PEARL study

Rapamycin is currently being tested for safety and efficacy in a clinical trial called the Participatory Evaluation (of) Aging (With) Rapamycin (for) Longevity (PEARL) study. The clinical trial aims to systematically investigate the use of rapamycin to promote healthy longevity, and is expected to conclude in 2023.[45]

The study will begin with 200 adults aged 50 years or older who will receive rapamycin for up to one year. The study is being conducted by AgelessRX, a new company dedicated to developing scientifically supported interventions to prevent and treat age-related diseases, in collaboration with the University of California.[46]

The trial aims to obtain clinical data at 6 and 12 months of treatment, such as via testing of blood, body composition DXA, fecal microbiome, immune function, inflammation, skeletal muscle, and epigenetic aging clocks.

Dog clinical trials

The Dog Aging Project is a US Government NIH-funded intiative investigating dog aging.[47] The project is led by Professor Matt Kaeberlein at the University of Washington.[48]

The Test of Rapamycin In Aging Dogs (TRIAD) study is investigating rapamycin as a treatment to slow aging in dogs. The investigators hope to increase healthy canine lifespan with rapamycin by delaying the onset of age-related diseases like cancer and heart disease.[10][48]

Aging biology scientists believe that studying dog aging might not only help improve canine healthspan, but also have implications for humans.[48] It is believed that dogs would serve a good animal model because they share the same environment that humans live in, and suffer from similar chronic diseases with aging.[49]

Regulatory approval

Rapamycin was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1999 to prevent organ rejection in liver transplant patients, and has been marketed under the brand name Rapamune.[50] The patent on rapamycin has expired, and chemically similar compounds called 'rapalogs' are being researched by biotechnology companies.[51] It is not currently approved for use as an anti-aging medication, due to lack of sufficient human clinical data for this purpose.

Safety

Rapamycin has been used to treat millions of patients over several decades since obtaining FDA approval in 1999. It is generally considered safe in humans, but only when used under clinical supervision for specific indications. Various side effects have been reported with the high dose of rapamycin used to prevent rejection in organ transplant patients, who are often concurrently treated with multiple other medications.[52] These include pain, headache, fever, high blood pressure, glucose intolerance, nausea, abdominal pain, constipation, diarrhea, thrombocytopenia, leukopenia, among others. However, side effects are mostly reversible and represent worst-case scenarios, particularly because the patients sampled in clinical studies are already severely ill and taking high doses of the drug along with other medications.[53]

Case studies of the safety profile of rapamycin in the context of overdosing have suggested that it may have a large margin of safety or a high median lethal dose, but only in the acute setting.[54] The distinction with chronic high dose mTOR inhibition must be made because resultant immunosuppression can lead to susceptibility to infection with fatal consequences. Some preclinical data suggests that the longevity benefits of rapamycin may be retained via intermittent dosing.[6] In considering the known clinical data about rapamycin's controversial safety at continuous, high doses, some researchers have proposed that rapamycin should dosed intermittently to minimize side effects while sufficiently inhibiting mTOR for an effect on aging.[6]

From a longevity perspective, there is a lack of published clinical data demonstrating the safety of rapamycin in healthy adults. One randomized pilot study of rapamycin in 25 older adults aged 70-95 showed no clinically significant effects, including a lack of effect on immune function.[55] This was a small study with a low dose of rapamycin, dosed over a short duration of 8 weeks. Considering the fact that, based on preclinical animal data, any potential benefit of rapamycin for aging will require long-term dosing, further testing in clinical trials is necessary to better characterize safety.[55]

Clinical trials such as the PEARL study are needed to provide evidence for the safety profile of rapamycin in otherwise healthy older adults.

Rapalogs

Rapalogs are molecules that have a similar mechanism to rapamycin (primarily inhibiting the mTORC1 protein). These drugs are generally predicted to function similarly to rapamycin in enhancing lifespan and reducing age-related decline in physiological function. However, only one rapalog, everolimus, has been studied in this context.[56]

mTOR inhibition improves immune function in the elderly

In a phase 2 randomized clinical trial published in Science Translational Medicine in 2014, low-dose TORC1 inhibition with the rapalog everolimus showed improvement in immune function in the elderly. The clinical trial enrolled 218 adults aged ≥65 years, observing decreased incidence of all infections, as well as improved influenza vaccination responses and upregulation of antiviral immunity.[57]

TORC1 inhibition enhances immune function and reduces infections in the elderly

A similar phase 2a trial clinical trial randomized 264 older adults to treatment with everolimus and placebo, and was published in Science Translational Medicine in 2018. The trial showed potential for reducing the effects of immune aging, with improvement in influenza vaccination response in the elderly.[58]

Everolimus enhanced the influenza vaccine response by approximately 20% at relatively well tolerated doses. One mechanism was related to a reduction in the percentage of CD4 and CD8 T cells expressing the programmed death-1 receptor, which has increased expression with age and a major role in inhibiting T cell signaling.[58] These findings suggest that, at an appopriate dose, mTOR inhibition may improve the age-related decline in immune function in the elderly.

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A) Number of patients with laboratory-confirmed RTIs of any severity caused by specific viruses, comparing RTB101 group (blue) versus placebo (grey) in the phase 2b, phase 3, and combined phase 2b/3 RCTs B) Number of patients with laboratory-confirmed RTIs with severe symptoms caused by specific viruses in the RTB101 group (blue) versus placebo (grey) in the phase 2b, phase 3, and combined phase 2b/3 trials. RTI = respiratory tract infection

Improving immune function in older adults for respiratory tract infections, including coronaviruses

Low-dose mTOR inhibition with dactolisib in a Phase 2b and phase 3 trial in the elderly showed reduced coronavirus (non COVID-19) incidence, as well as reductions in severe symptoms.[59] However, the data remains inconclusive as the study was powered statistically for a reduction in clinically symptomatic respiratory tract infections (RTIs), and not laboratory-confirmed RTIs.[59]

Following the success of two phase 2 clinical trials investigating mTOR inhibition for targeting the aging immune system, dactolisib is currently being pursued for the treatment of COVID-19 in a phase 2a placebo-controlled trial (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04584710, NCT04409327), exploring the potential for preventing severe disease in elderly adults with no symptoms, who have been exposed to COVID-19.[59]

Unpublished data from the phase 2 trial of RTB101 for COVID-19 among nursing home patients treated within 3 days from testing positive saw promising results. None of those treated with RTB101 developed symptoms (n=18), while the placebo treated control group had 4 severe cases of disease and 2 deaths. While this was a statistically significant finding, larger trials are warranted for further evidence of potential benefit.

This trial is being run by the biopharmaceutical company resTORbio and has obtained funding from the National Institute on Aging (NIA/NIH). The studies with dactolisib for COVID-19 is one of several clinical trials in the aging biology field aiming to target aging to improve the aging immune system.[59]



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