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Tsukamoto A, Jae Man L, Oyama K, Masuda A, Mon H, Ueda T, Kusakabe T. Effective expression and characterization of the receptor binding domains in SARS-CoV-2 Spike proteins from original strain and variants of concern using Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus in silkworm. Protein Expr Purif 2024; 218:106450. [PMID: 38395208 DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2024.106450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2023] [Revised: 02/19/2024] [Accepted: 02/20/2024] [Indexed: 02/25/2024]
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A new coronavirus, known as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is responsible for the global pandemic of COVID-19 in 2020. Through structural analysis, it was found that several amino acid residues in the human angiotensin-converting enzyme-2 (hACE2) receptor directly interact with those in the receptor binding domain (RBD) of the spike glycoprotein (S-protein). Various cell lines, including HEK293, HeLa cells, and the baculovirus expression vector system (BEVS) with the insect cell line Sf9, have been utilized to produce the RBD. In this study, we investigated the use of Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus (BmNPV) and BEVS. For efficient production of a highly pure recombinant RBD protein, we designed it with two tags (His tag and STREP tag) at the C-terminus and a solubilizing tag (SUMO) at the N-terminus. After expressing the protein using BmNPV and silkworm and purifying it with a HisTrap excel column, the eluted protein was digested with SUMO protease and further purified using a Strep-Tactin Superflow column. As a result, we obtained the RBD as a monomer with a yield of 2.6 mg/10 mL serum (equivalent to 30 silkworms). The RBD showed an affinity for the hACE2 receptor. Additionally, the RBDs from the Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Omicron variants were expressed and purified using the same protocol. It was found that the RBD from the Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta variants could be obtained with yields of 1.4-2.6 mg/10 mL serum and had an affinity to the hACE2 receptor.
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- Akira Tsukamoto
- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyushu University, Maidashi 3-1-1, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan
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- Laboratory of Creative Science for Insect Industries, Kyushu University Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan
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- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyushu University, Maidashi 3-1-1, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan
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- Laboratory of Creative Science for Insect Industries, Kyushu University Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan
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- Laboratory of Insect Genome Science, Kyushu University Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan
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- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyushu University, Maidashi 3-1-1, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan.
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- Laboratory of Insect Genome Science, Kyushu University Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan.
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Sun NN, Xu QF, Yang MD, Li YN, Liu H, Tantai W, Shu GW, Li GL. A high-throughput differential scanning fluorimetry method for rapid detection of thermal stability and iron saturation in lactoferrin. Int J Biol Macromol 2024; 267:131285. [PMID: 38583841 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2024.131285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/29/2024] [Revised: 03/28/2024] [Accepted: 03/29/2024] [Indexed: 04/09/2024]
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Thermal stability and iron saturation of lactoferrin (LF) are of great significance not only for the evaluation of the biological activities of LF but also for the optimization of the isolation and drying process parameters. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) is a well-established and efficient method for thermal stability and iron saturation detection in LF. However, multiple DSC measurements are typically performed sequentially, thus time-consuming and low throughput. Herein, we introduced the differential scanning fluorimetry (DSF) approach to overcome such limitations. The DSF can monitor LF thermal unfolding with a commonly available real-time PCR instrument and a fluorescent dye (SYPRO orange or Glomelt), and the measured melting temperature of LF is consistent with that determined by DSC. On the basis of that, a new quantification method was established for determination of iron saturation levels using the linear correlation of the degree of ion saturation of LF with DSF measurements. Such DSF method is simple, inexpensive, rapid (<15 min), and high throughput (>96 samples per experiment), and provides a valuable alternative tool for thermal stability detection of LF and other whey proteins.
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- Na-Na Sun
- School of Food Science and Engineering, National R&D Center for Goat Dairy Products Processing Technology, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710021, China
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- School of Food Science and Engineering, National R&D Center for Goat Dairy Products Processing Technology, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710021, China.
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- School of Food Science and Engineering, National R&D Center for Goat Dairy Products Processing Technology, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710021, China
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- School of Food Science and Engineering, National R&D Center for Goat Dairy Products Processing Technology, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710021, China
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- School of Food Science and Engineering, National R&D Center for Goat Dairy Products Processing Technology, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710021, China
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- School of Food Science and Engineering, National R&D Center for Goat Dairy Products Processing Technology, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710021, China
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- School of Food Science and Engineering, National R&D Center for Goat Dairy Products Processing Technology, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710021, China
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- School of Food Science and Engineering, National R&D Center for Goat Dairy Products Processing Technology, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710021, China
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Gooran N, Kopra K. Fluorescence-Based Protein Stability Monitoring-A Review. Int J Mol Sci 2024; 25:1764. [PMID: 38339045 PMCID: PMC10855643 DOI: 10.3390/ijms25031764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2023] [Revised: 01/26/2024] [Accepted: 01/29/2024] [Indexed: 02/12/2024] Open
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Proteins are large biomolecules with a specific structure that is composed of one or more long amino acid chains. Correct protein structures are directly linked to their correct function, and many environmental factors can have either positive or negative effects on this structure. Thus, there is a clear need for methods enabling the study of proteins, their correct folding, and components affecting protein stability. There is a significant number of label-free methods to study protein stability. In this review, we provide a general overview of these methods, but the main focus is on fluorescence-based low-instrument and -expertise-demand techniques. Different aspects related to thermal shift assays (TSAs), also called differential scanning fluorimetry (DSF) or ThermoFluor, are introduced and compared to isothermal chemical denaturation (ICD). Finally, we discuss the challenges and comparative aspects related to these methods, as well as future opportunities and assay development directions.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Turku, Henrikinkatu 2, 20500 Turku, Finland;
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Ma Q, Shibata M, Hagiwara T. Ice crystal recrystallization inhibition of type I antifreeze protein, type III antifreeze protein, and antifreeze glycoprotein: effects of AF(G)Ps concentration and heat treatment. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 2022; 86:635-645. [PMID: 35134820 DOI: 10.1093/bbb/zbac020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2021] [Accepted: 01/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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This study compared ice recrystallization behaviors of frozen dessert model systems containing type I antifreeze protein (AFP I), type III antifreeze protein (AFP III), and antifreeze glycoprotein (AFGP) at -10 °C. Specifically, effects of AF(G)P concentration and heat treatment (95 °C for 10 min) were examined. The concentration dependence of the ice recrystallization rate constant reasonably well fit a sigmoidal function: the fitting procedure was proposed, along with cooperative coefficient α, and a new index of AF(G)P ice recrystallization inhibition (IRI) activity (C50). After 95 °C heat treatment for 10 min, AFP III lost its ice crystal recrystallization inhibitory activity the most: AFP I was less affected; AFGP was almost entirely unaffected. These different thermal treatment effects might reflect a lower degree of protein aggregation because of hydrophobic interaction after heat treatment or might reflect the simplicity and flexibility of the higher order structures of AFP I and AFGP.
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- Qingbao Ma
- Department of Food Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, 4-5-7 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8477, Japan
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- Department of Food Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, 4-5-7 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8477, Japan
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- Department of Food Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, 4-5-7 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8477, Japan
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Takahashi D, Matsunaga E, Yamashita T, Caaveiro JM, Abe Y, Ueda T. Compound screening identified gossypetin and isoquercitrin as novel inhibitors for amyloid fibril formations of Vλ6 proteins associated with AL amyloidosis. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2022; 596:22-28. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2022.01.066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2022] [Accepted: 01/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Jackson TW, Scheibly CM, Polera ME, Belcher SM. Rapid Characterization of Human Serum Albumin Binding for Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Using Differential Scanning Fluorimetry. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2021; 55:12291-12301. [PMID: 34495656 PMCID: PMC8651256 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c01200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a diverse class of synthetic chemicals that accumulate in the environment. Many proteins, including the primary human serum transport protein albumin (HSA), bind PFAS. The predictive power of physiologically based pharmacokinetic modeling approaches is currently limited by a lack of experimental data defining albumin-binding properties for most PFAS. A novel thermal denaturation assay was optimized to evaluate changes in the thermal stability of HSA in the presence of increasing concentrations of known ligands and a structurally diverse set of PFAS. Assay performance was initially evaluated for fatty acids and HSA-binding drugs ibuprofen and warfarin. Concentration-response relationships were determined and dissociation constants (Kd) for each compound were calculated using regression analysis of the dose-dependent changes in HSA melting temperature. Estimated Kd values for HSA binding of octanoic acid, decanoic acid, hexadecenoic acid, ibuprofen, and warfarin agreed with established values. The binding affinities for 24 PFAS that included perfluoroalkyl carboxylic acids (C4-C12), perfluoroalkyl sulfonic acids (C4-C8), mono- and polyether perfluoroalkyl ether acids, and polyfluoroalkyl fluorotelomer substances were determined. These results demonstrate the utility of this differential scanning fluorimetry assay as a rapid high-throughput approach for determining the relative protein-binding properties and identification of chemical structures involved in binding for large numbers of structurally diverse PFAS.
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- Thomas W Jackson
- Center for Human Health and The Environment Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, 127 David Clark Labs Campus, P.O. Box 7617, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
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- Center for Human Health and The Environment Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, 127 David Clark Labs Campus, P.O. Box 7617, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
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- Center for Human Health and The Environment Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, 127 David Clark Labs Campus, P.O. Box 7617, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
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- Center for Human Health and The Environment Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, 127 David Clark Labs Campus, P.O. Box 7617, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
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Seashore-Ludlow B, Axelsson H, Almqvist H, Dahlgren B, Jonsson M, Lundbäck T. Quantitative Interpretation of Intracellular Drug Binding and Kinetics Using the Cellular Thermal Shift Assay. Biochemistry 2018; 57:6715-6725. [PMID: 30418016 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.8b01057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
Abstract
Evidence of physical interaction with the target protein is essential in the development of chemical probes and drugs. The cellular thermal shift assay (CETSA) allows evaluation of drug binding in live cells but lacks a framework to support quantitative interpretations and comparisons with functional data. We outline an experimental platform for such analysis using human kinase p38α. Systematic variations to the assay's characteristic heat challenge demonstrate an apparent loss of compound potency with an increase in duration or temperature, in line with expectations from the literature for thermal shift assays. Importantly, data for five structurally diverse inhibitors can be quantitatively explained using a simple model of linked equilibria and published binding parameters. The platform further distinguishes between ligand mechanisms and allows for quantitative comparisons of drug binding affinities and kinetics in live cells and lysates. We believe this work has broad implications in the appropriate use of the CETSA for target and compound validation.
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- Brinton Seashore-Ludlow
- Chemical Biology Consortium Sweden, Science for Life Laboratories , Karolinska Institutet , SE-171 65 Solna , Sweden.,Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics , Karolinska Institutet , SE-171 65 Solna , Sweden
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- Chemical Biology Consortium Sweden, Science for Life Laboratories , Karolinska Institutet , SE-171 65 Solna , Sweden.,Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics , Karolinska Institutet , SE-171 65 Solna , Sweden
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- Chemical Biology Consortium Sweden, Science for Life Laboratories , Karolinska Institutet , SE-171 65 Solna , Sweden.,Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics , Karolinska Institutet , SE-171 65 Solna , Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry , KTH Royal Institute of Technology , SE-100 44 Stockholm , Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry , KTH Royal Institute of Technology , SE-100 44 Stockholm , Sweden
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- Chemical Biology Consortium Sweden, Science for Life Laboratories , Karolinska Institutet , SE-171 65 Solna , Sweden.,Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics , Karolinska Institutet , SE-171 65 Solna , Sweden.,Mechanistic Biology & Profiling, Discovery Sciences, IMED Biotech Unit , AstraZeneca , Gothenburg, SE-431 83 Mölndal , Sweden
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The cellular thermal shift assay (CETSA) was introduced in 2013 as a means to assess drug binding in complex environments such as cell lysates, live cells, and even tissues. The assay principle relies on the well-proven biophysical concept of ligand-induced thermal stabilization of proteins, which in CETSA applications is measured as a persistent presence of soluble protein at elevated temperatures. Given its recent development, we have just started to learn about the benefits and pitfalls of the method as it is applied to a growing number of protein target classes, the majority of which are intracellular soluble proteins. One of the early technology developments concerned the transfer of the original assay procedure from PCR tubes and Western blot detection of soluble protein to a homogeneous assay in high-density microplates. A move to high-throughput formats is essential for a more systematic application in drug discovery settings, as well as in academic efforts for validating chemical probes through studies of structure-activity relationships. This perspective aims at providing an overview of knowledge gained in microplate formatting of CETSA and makes an attempt at forecasting future applications.
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- Brinton Seashore-Ludlow
- 1 Chemical Biology Consortium Sweden, Science for Life Laboratories, Stockholm, Sweden.,2 Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Division of Translational Medicine and Chemical Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden
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- 1 Chemical Biology Consortium Sweden, Science for Life Laboratories, Stockholm, Sweden.,2 Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Division of Translational Medicine and Chemical Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden
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An effective thiol-reactive probe for differential scanning fluorimetry with a standard real-time polymerase chain reaction device. Anal Biochem 2016; 499:63-65. [PMID: 26851339 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2016.01.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2016] [Accepted: 01/25/2016] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
Abstract
Differential scanning fluorimetry (DSF) is used to assess protein stability, transition states, or the Kd values of various ligands, drug molecules, and antibodies. All fluorescent probes published to date either are incompatible with hydrophobic proteins/ligands, precluding analyses of transmembrane or membrane-associated proteins, or have excitation and detection wavelengths outside the range of real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) machines, necessitating the use of dedicated devices. Here, we describe a thiol-reactive probe, BODIPY FL L-cystine (BFC), to overcome both of these shortcomings. The probe supports an inexpensive application of DSF measurements suitable for detection with standard RT-PCR machines in a hydrophilic or hydrophobic environment.
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Kohlstaedt M, von der Hocht I, Hilbers F, Thielmann Y, Michel H. Development of a Thermofluor assay for stability determination of membrane proteins using the Na(+)/H(+) antiporter NhaA and cytochrome c oxidase. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015; 71:1112-22. [PMID: 25945577 DOI: 10.1107/s1399004715004058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2014] [Accepted: 02/26/2015] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Crystallization of membrane proteins is very laborious and time-consuming, yielding well diffracting crystals in only a minority of projects. Therefore, a rapid and easy method is required to optimize the conditions for initial crystallization trials. The Thermofluor assay has been developed as such a tool. However, its applicability to membrane proteins is still limited because either large hydrophilic extramembranous regions or cysteine residues are required for the available dyes to bind and therefore act as reporters in this assay. No probe has been characterized to discriminate between the hydrophobic surfaces of detergent micelles, folded and detergent-covered membrane proteins and denatured membrane proteins. Of the four dyes tested, the two dyes 1-anilinonaphthalene-8-sulfonic acid (ANS) and SYPRO Orange were systematically screened for compatibility with five detergents commonly used in the crystallization of membrane proteins. ANS showed the weakest interactions with all of the detergents screened. It was possible to determine the melting temperature of the sodium ion/proton antiporter NhaA, a small membrane protein without large hydrophilic domains, over a broad pH range using ANS. Furthermore, cytochrome c oxidase (CcO) was used to apply the method to a four-subunit membrane protein complex. It was possible to obtain preliminary information on the temperature-dependent denaturation of this complex using the dye ANS. Application of the dye 7-diethylamino-3-(4'-maleimidylphenyl)-4-methylcoumarin (CPM) to CcO in the Thermofluor assay enabled the determination of the melting temperatures of distinct subunits of the complex.
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- Martin Kohlstaedt
- Department of Molecular Membrane Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Max-von-Laue-Strasse 3, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Membrane Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Max-von-Laue-Strasse 3, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Membrane Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Max-von-Laue-Strasse 3, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Membrane Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Max-von-Laue-Strasse 3, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Membrane Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Max-von-Laue-Strasse 3, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
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Kivi R, Jemth P, Järv J. Thermodynamic aspects of cAMP dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit allostery. Protein J 2015; 33:386-93. [PMID: 24985055 DOI: 10.1007/s10930-014-9570-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Kinetics of thermal inactivation of acrylodan-labeled cAMP dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit, its binary complexes with ATP and peptide inhibitor PKI[5-24], respectively, and the ternary complex involving both of these ligands were studied at different temperatures (5-50 °C). The thermodynamic parameters ΔH and ΔS for ligand binding equilibria as well as for the allosteric interaction between the binding sites of these ligands were obtained by using the Van't Hoff analysis. The results indicated that more inter- and intra-molecular non-covalent bonds were involved in ATP binding with the protein when compared to the peptide binding. Similarly, nucleotide and peptide binding steps were accompanied with different entropy effects, while almost no entropy change accompanied PKI[5-24] binding, suggesting that the protein flexibility was not affected in this case. Differently from the binary complex formation the ternary complex formation was accompanied by a significant entropy change and with intensive formation of new non-covalent interactions (ΔH). At the same time both ligand binding steps as well as the allosteric interaction between ligand binding sites could be described by a common entropy-enthalpy compensation plot, pointing to a similar mechanism of these phenomena. It was concluded that numerous weak interactions govern the allostery of cAMP dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit.
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- Rait Kivi
- Institute of Chemistry, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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Boivin S, Kozak S, Meijers R. Optimization of protein purification and characterization using Thermofluor screens. Protein Expr Purif 2013; 91:192-206. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2013.08.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2013] [Revised: 07/29/2013] [Accepted: 08/02/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Most proteins have not evolved for maximal thermal stability. Some are only marginally stable, as for example, the DNA-binding domains of p53 and its homologs, whose kinetic and thermodynamic stabilities are strongly correlated. Here, we applied high-throughput methods using a real-time PCR thermocycler to study the stability of several full-length orthologs and paralogs of the p53 family of transcription factors, which have diverse functions, ranging from tumour suppression to control of developmental processes. From isothermal denaturation fluorimetry and differential scanning fluorimetry, we found that full-length proteins showed the same correlation between kinetic and thermodynamic stability as their isolated DNA-binding domains. The stabilities of the full-length p53 orthologs were marginal and correlated with the temperature of their organism, paralleling the stability of the isolated DNA-binding domains. Additionally, the paralogs p63 and p73 were significantly more stable and long-lived than p53. The short half-life of p53 orthologs and the greater persistence of the paralogs may be biologically relevant.
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- Tobias Brandt
- MRC Centre for Protein Engineering, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- MRC Centre for Protein Engineering, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- MRC Centre for Protein Engineering, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- MRC Centre for Protein Engineering, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Kinetic anomalies in the interactions of Nile red with microalgae. J Microbiol Methods 2012; 88:189-96. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2011.10.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2011] [Revised: 10/03/2011] [Accepted: 10/04/2011] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Glutathione and Vitamin B12 Cooperate in Stabilization of a B12 Trafficking Chaperone Protein. Protein J 2011; 31:158-65. [DOI: 10.1007/s10930-011-9385-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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Senisterra G, Chau I, Vedadi M. Thermal denaturation assays in chemical biology. Assay Drug Dev Technol 2011; 10:128-36. [PMID: 22066913 DOI: 10.1089/adt.2011.0390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Thermal denaturation-based methods are becoming increasingly used to characterize protein stability and interactions. Recent technical advances have made these methods more suitable for high throughput screening. Reasonable throughput and the ability to perform these screens using commonly used instruments, such as RT-PCR machines or simple plate readers equipped with heating devices, facilitate these experiments in almost any laboratory. Introducing an aggregation-based monitoring approach as well as alternative fluorophores has allowed the screening of a wider range of proteins, including membrane proteins, against large chemical libraries. Thermal denaturation-based methods are independent of protein function, which is especially useful for the identification of orphan protein function. Here, we review applications of thermal denaturation-based methods in characterizing protein stability and ligand binding, and also provide information on protocol modifications that may further increase throughput.
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Vedadi M, Arrowsmith CH, Allali-Hassani A, Senisterra G, Wasney GA. Biophysical characterization of recombinant proteins: a key to higher structural genomics success. J Struct Biol 2010; 172:107-19. [PMID: 20466062 PMCID: PMC2954336 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2010.05.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2010] [Revised: 03/26/2010] [Accepted: 05/06/2010] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Hundreds of genomes have been successfully sequenced to date, and the data are publicly available. At the same time, the advances in large-scale expression and purification of recombinant proteins have paved the way for structural genomics efforts. Frequently, however, little is known about newly expressed proteins calling for large-scale protein characterization to better understand their biochemical roles and to enable structure-function relationship studies. In the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC), we have established a platform to characterize large numbers of purified proteins. This includes screening for ligands, enzyme assays, peptide arrays and peptide displacement in a 384-well format. In this review, we describe this platform in more detail and report on how our approach significantly increases the success rate for structure determination. Coupled with high-resolution X-ray crystallography and structure-guided methods, this platform can also be used toward the development of chemical probes through screening families of proteins against a variety of chemical series and focused chemical libraries.
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- Masoud Vedadi
- Structural Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto, Room 839, MaRS Center, South Tower, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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West GM, Thompson JW, Soderblom EJ, Dubois LG, DeArmond PD, Moseley MA, Fitzgerald MC. Mass Spectrometry-Based Thermal Shift Assay for Protein−Ligand Binding Analysis. Anal Chem 2010; 82:5573-81. [DOI: 10.1021/ac100465a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Graham M. West
- Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, and Institute for Genome Science and Policy, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27708
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- Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, and Institute for Genome Science and Policy, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27708
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- Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, and Institute for Genome Science and Policy, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27708
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- Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, and Institute for Genome Science and Policy, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27708
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- Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, and Institute for Genome Science and Policy, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27708
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- Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, and Institute for Genome Science and Policy, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27708
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- Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, and Institute for Genome Science and Policy, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27708
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Froese D, Healy S, McDonald M, Kochan G, Oppermann U, Niesen F, Gravel R. Thermolability of mutant MMACHC protein in the vitamin B12-responsive cblC disorder. Mol Genet Metab 2010; 100:29-36. [PMID: 20219402 PMCID: PMC2923755 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymgme.2010.02.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2009] [Revised: 02/04/2010] [Accepted: 02/05/2010] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Methylmalonic aciduria and homocystinuria, cblC type, is the most common inborn error of cellular vitamin B12 metabolism. We previously showed that the protein carrying the mutation responsible for late-onset cblC (MMACHC-R161Q), treatable with high dose OHCbl, is able to bind OHCbl with wild-type affinity, leaving undetermined the disease mechanism involved [Froese et al., Mechanism of responsiveness, Mol. Genet. Metab. (2009).]. To assess whether the mutation renders the protein unstable, we investigated the thermostability of the wild-type and mutant MMACHC proteins, either unbound or bound to different cobalamins (Cbl), using differential scanning fluorimetry. We found that MMACHC-wt and MMACHC-R161Q are both very thermolabile proteins in their apo forms, with melting temperatures (T(m)) of 39.3+/-1.0 and 37.1+/-0.7 degrees C, respectively; a difference confirmed by unfolding of MMACHC-R161Q but not MMACHC-wt by isothermal denaturation at 35 degrees C over 120 min. However, with the addition of OHCbl, MMACHC-wt becomes significantly stabilized (Delta T(m max)=8 degrees C, half-maximal effective ligand concentration, AC(50)=3 microM). We surveyed the effect of different cobalamins on the stabilization of the wild-type protein and found that AdoCbl was the most stabilizing, exerting a maximum increase in T(m) of approximately 16 degrees C, followed by MeCbl at approximately 13 degrees C, each evaluated at 50 microM cofactor. The other cobalamins stabilized in the order (CN)(2)Cbi>OHCbl>CNCbl. Interestingly, the AC(50)'s for AdoCbl, MeCbl, (CN)(2)Cbi and OHCbl were similar and ranged from 1-3 microM, which compares well with the K(d) of 6 microM for OHCbl [Froese et al., Mechanism of responsiveness, Mol. Genet. Metab. (2009).]. Unlike MMACHC-wt, the mutant protein MMACHC-R161Q is only moderately stabilized by OHCbl (Delta T(m max)=4 degrees C). The dose-response curve also shows a lower effectivity of OHCbl with respect to stabilization, with an AC(50) of 7 microM. MMACHC-R161Q showed the same order of stabilization as MMACHC-wt, but each cobalamin stabilized this mutant protein less than its wild-type counterpart. Additionally, MMACHC-R161Q had a higher AC(50) for each cobalamin form compared to MMACHC-wt. Finally, we show that MMACHC-R161Q is able to support the base-off transition for AdoCbl and CNCbl, indicating this mutant is not blocked in that respect. Taken together, our results suggest that protein stability, as well as propensity for ligand-induced stabilization, contributes to the disease mechanism in late-onset cblC disorder. Our results underscore the importance of cofactor stabilization of MMACHC and suggest that even small increases in the concentration of cobalamin complexed with MMACHC may have therapeutic benefit in children with the late-onset, vitamin responsive cblC disease.
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- D.S. Froese
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Calgary, Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute for Child and Maternal Health, Calgary, Alta., Canada T2N 4N1
- Structural Genomics Consortium, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus Research Building, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7DQ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Calgary, Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute for Child and Maternal Health, Calgary, Alta., Canada T2N 4N1
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Calgary, Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute for Child and Maternal Health, Calgary, Alta., Canada T2N 4N1
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- Structural Genomics Consortium, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus Research Building, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7DQ, United Kingdom
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- Structural Genomics Consortium, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus Research Building, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7DQ, United Kingdom
- Nuffield Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, Botnar Research Center, Biomedical Research Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Structural Genomics Consortium, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus Research Building, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7DQ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Calgary, Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute for Child and Maternal Health, Calgary, Alta., Canada T2N 4N1
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Moreau MJJ, Morin I, Schaeffer PM. Quantitative determination of protein stability and ligand binding using a green fluorescent protein reporter system. MOLECULAR BIOSYSTEMS 2010; 6:1285-92. [DOI: 10.1039/c002001j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Hopper ED, Pittman AMC, Fitzgerald MC, Tucker CL. In vivo and in vitro examination of stability of primary hyperoxaluria-associated human alanine:glyoxylate aminotransferase. J Biol Chem 2008; 283:30493-502. [PMID: 18782763 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m803525200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Primary hyperoxaluria type I is a severe kidney stone disease caused by mutations in the protein alanine:glyoxylate aminotransferase (AGT). Many patients have mutations in AGT that are not deleterious alone but act synergistically with a common minor allele polymorphic variant to impair protein folding, dimerization, or localization. Although studies suggest that the minor allele variant itself is destabilized, no direct stability studies have been carried out. In this report, we analyze AGT function and stability using three approaches. First, we describe a yeast complementation growth assay for AGT, in which we show that human AGT can substitute for function of yeast Agx1 and that mutations associated with disease in humans show reduced growth in yeast. The reduced growth of minor allele mutants reflects reduced protein levels, indicating that these proteins are less stable than wild-type AGT in yeast. We further examine stability of AGT alleles in vitro using two direct methods, a mass spectrometry-based technique (stability of unpurified proteins from rates of H/D exchange) and differential scanning fluorimetry. We also examine the effect of known ligands pyridoxal 5'-phosphate and aminooxyacetic acid on stability. Our work establishes that the minor allele is destabilized and that pyridoxal 5'-phosphate and aminooxyacetic acid binding significantly stabilizes both alleles. To our knowledge, this is the first work that directly measures relative stabilities of AGT variants and ligand complexes. Because previous studies suggest that stabilizing compounds (i.e. pharmacological chaperones) may be effective for treatment of primary hyperoxaluria, we propose that the methods described here can be used in high throughput screens for compounds that stabilize AGT mutants.
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- Erin D Hopper
- Department of Biology and Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
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Patel R, LeBrun LA, Wang S, Howett LJ, Thompson PA, Appleman JR, Li B. ATLAS—A High-Throughput Affinity-Based Screening Technology for Soluble Proteins: Technology Application Using p38 MAP Kinase. Assay Drug Dev Technol 2008; 6:55-68. [DOI: 10.1089/adt.2007.099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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- Rupal Patel
- Department of Biology, Anadys Pharmaceuticals, Inc., San Diego, California
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- Department of Biology, Anadys Pharmaceuticals, Inc., San Diego, California
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- Department of Biology, Anadys Pharmaceuticals, Inc., San Diego, California
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- Department of Biology, Anadys Pharmaceuticals, Inc., San Diego, California
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- Department of Biology, Anadys Pharmaceuticals, Inc., San Diego, California
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- Department of Biology, Anadys Pharmaceuticals, Inc., San Diego, California
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- Department of Biology, Anadys Pharmaceuticals, Inc., San Diego, California
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Niesen FH, Berglund H, Vedadi M. The use of differential scanning fluorimetry to detect ligand interactions that promote protein stability. Nat Protoc 2007; 2:2212-21. [PMID: 17853878 DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2007.321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1831] [Impact Index Per Article: 107.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Differential scanning fluorimetry (DSF) is a rapid and inexpensive screening method to identify low-molecular-weight ligands that bind and stabilize purified proteins. The temperature at which a protein unfolds is measured by an increase in the fluorescence of a dye with affinity for hydrophobic parts of the protein, which are exposed as the protein unfolds. A simple fitting procedure allows quick calculation of the transition midpoint; the difference in the temperature of this midpoint in the presence and absence of ligand is related to the binding affinity of the small molecule, which can be a low-molecular-weight compound, a peptide or a nucleic acid. DSF is best performed using a conventional real-time PCR instrument. Ligand solutions from a storage plate are added to a solution of protein and dye, distributed into the wells of the PCR plate and fluorescence intensity measured as the temperature is raised gradually. Results can be obtained in a single day.
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- Frank H Niesen
- Structural Genomics Consortium, Botnar Research Centre, Oxford University, Oxford, UK.
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Solid/liquid interfacial tension as a tool to study stability of lysozyme on adsorption to solid surfaces. Chem Phys Lett 2006. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2005.10.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Sebok-Nagy K, Miskolczy Z, Biczók L. Interaction of 2-Hydroxy-substituted Nile Red Fluorescent Probe with Organic Nitrogen Compounds. Photochem Photobiol 2005; 81:1212-8. [PMID: 15901209 DOI: 10.1562/2005-01-14-ra-415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The fluorescent properties of 2-hydroxy Nile red dye (HONR) proved to be highly sensitive to the basicity of hydrogen bond acceptors. Fluorescence quantum yields and fluorescence decay profiles were measured as the function of the concentration of organic nitrogen compounds in solvents of various polarities. The detailed mechanism and the kinetics of the fluorescence quenching were revealed with the combined analysis of the steady-state and time-resolved spectroscopic data. The relative contribution of the competing reaction steps was found to be very sensitive to the basicity of the additive and to solvent polarity. The most profound change appeared in the unimolecular deactivation pathways of the excited hydrogen-bonded HONR, whereas the formation rate of this species varied to a lesser extent. The dissociation into excited HONR and ground-state base was able to compete with the energy dissipation only when 2,4,6-trimethylpyridine was used as hydrogen bond acceptor in toluene. The bimolecular quenching of the excited hydrogen-bonded complex played significant role in apolar solvents. Proton displacement along the hydrogen bond in the excited complex led to excited ion pairs in polar media.
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Prokhorenko IA, Dioubankova NN, Korshun VA. Oligonucleotide conjugates of Nile Red. NUCLEOSIDES NUCLEOTIDES & NUCLEIC ACIDS 2004; 23:509-20. [PMID: 15043171 DOI: 10.1081/ncn-120028344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Oligonucleotides containing long chain amine on uridine-2'-carbamate have been covalently modified with Nile Red, a hydrophobic long wavelength fluorescent benzophenoxazine dye. The fluorescence of the dye is quenched in oligonucleotide conjugates. Thermal denaturation studies show considerable interactions of Nile Red with DNA-DNA duplexes.
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- Igor A Prokhorenko
- Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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Sarver RW, Rogers JM, Stockman BJ, Epps DE, DeZwaan J, Harris MS, Baldwin ET. Physical methods to determine the binding mode of putative ligands for hepatitis C virus NS3 helicase. Anal Biochem 2002; 309:186-95. [PMID: 12413450 DOI: 10.1016/s0003-2697(02)00301-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Several small molecules identified by high-throughput screening (HTS) were evaluated for their ability to bind to a nonstructural protein 3 (NS3) helicase from hepatitis C virus (HCV). Equilibrium dissociation constants (K(d)'s) of the compounds for this helicase were determined using several techniques including an assay measuring the kinetics of isothermal enzyme denaturation at several concentrations of the test molecule. Effects of two nonhydrolyzable ATP analogs on helicase denaturation were measured as controls using the isothermal denaturation (ITD) assay. Two compounds, 4-(2,4-dimethylphenyl)-2,7,8-trimethyl-4,5-quinolinediamine and 2-phenyl-N-(5-piperazin-1-ylpentyl)quinazolin-4-amine, were identified from screening that inhibited the enzyme and had low micromolar dissociation constants for NS3 helicase in the ITD assay. Low micromolar affinity of the quinolinediamine to helicase was also confirmed by nuclear magnetic resonance experiments. Unfortunately, isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) experiments indicated that a more water-soluble analog bound to the 47/23-mer oligonucleotide helicase substrate with low micromolar affinity as did the substituted quinazolinamine. There was no further interest in these templates as helicase inhibitors due to the nonspecific binding to enzyme and substrate. A combination of physical methods was required to discern the mode of action of compounds identified by HTS and remove undesirable lead templates from further consideration.
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- Ronald W Sarver
- Structural, Analytical and Medicinal Chemistry, 301 Henrietta Street, Kalamazoo, MI 49001, USA
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Sarver RW, Rogers JM, Epps DE. Determination of ligand-MurB interactions by isothermal denaturation: application as a secondary assay to complement high throughput screening. JOURNAL OF BIOMOLECULAR SCREENING 2002; 7:21-8. [PMID: 11897052 DOI: 10.1177/108705710200700104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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We used a temperature-jump isothermal denaturation procedure with various methods of detection to evaluate the quality of putative inhibitors of MurB discovered by high-throughput screening. Three optical methods of detection-ultraviolet hyperchromicity of absorbance, fluorescence of bound dyes, and circular dichroism-as well as differential scanning calorimetry were used to dissect the effects of two chemical compounds and a natural substrate on the enzyme. The kinetics of the denaturation process and binding of the compounds detected by quenching of flavin fluorescence were used to quantitate the dose dependencies of the ligand effects. We found that the first step in the denaturation of MurB is the rapid loss of flavin from the active site and that the two chemical inhibitors appeared to destabilize the interaction of the cofactor with the enzyme but stabilize the global unfolding. The kinetics of the denaturation process as well as the loss of flavin fluorescence on binding established that both compounds had nanomolar affinities for the enzyme. We showed that coupling of the various detection methods with isothermal denaturation yields a powerful regimen to provide analytical data for assessing inhibitor specificity for a protein target.
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- Ronald W Sarver
- Structural and Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmacia Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI 49001, USA
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