External ID: MITF_INH_Alpha_1536_1X%INH PRUN
Protocol:
Assay Overview:
The purpose of this biochemical assay is to identify MITF dimerization inhibitors that disrupt or prevent its homodimerization. This assay is a bead-based proximity assay, which employs acceptor beads and donor beads to generate a chemiluminescence signal. In this assay, Biotin-labelled MITF and His- tagged MITF homodimerization will bring donor and acceptor beads into close proximity. Laser excitation of the donor beads converts oxygen to an excited singlet state. Reaction of the singlet oxygen with the acceptor beads further activates a chemiluminescence reaction within the same bead resulting in emitted light at 520-620 nm. As designed, small molecule inhibitors that interfere with this interaction will increase the distance of the acceptor beads, thus leading to decreased signal. Compounds were tested in singlicate at a nominal test concentration of 2.6 micromolar.
Protocol Summary:
Prior to the start of the assay, 1.25#L of assay buffer (50mM HEPEs pH7.5, 250mM Sodium chloride, 0.1% Tween, 0.1% BSA) containing 10nM His-MITF_r259stop were dispensed into columns 1 thru column 2, and 1.25#L of assay buffer containing 10nM of His MBP MITF were dispensed into columns 3 thru column 48 of 1536 microtiter plates. Next, 10nL of test compounds in DMSO, 7,8-Dihydroxycoumarin (200#M final highest concentration) in DMSO, or DMSO alone (0.15% final concentration) were added to the appropriate wells before dispensing 1.25#L of 10#g/mL Acceptor beads into column 1 to 46 and 1.25#L of assay buffer into column 47 and 48. Plates were incubated in dark for 2hrs at room temperature. Then, dispenses of 1.25#L of 10nM Biotin-MITF into all columns, and 10#g/mL Donor beads into column 1 to 46 and 1.25#L of assay buffer into column 47 to 48 followed by 3hrs incubation in dark at RT, was done. Alphascreen signal was determined using an EnVision microplate reader (PerkinElmer, Waltham, MA) at 680nm excitation and 570nm emission.
The percent inhibition for each compound was calculated as follows:
100 *( ( Median_Low Control-Test Compound) / ( Median_Low Control - Median_High Control ) )
Where:
Test_Compound is defined as wells containing His-MITF + Biotin-MITF in the presence of test compound
High_Control is defined as wells containing His-MITF_r259stop + Biotin-MITF and DMSO.
Low_Control is defined as wells containing His-MITF + Biotin-MITF and DMSO
PubChem Activity Outcome and Score:
Standard Cutoff
The reported PubChem Activity Score has been normalized to 100% observed primary inhibition. Negative % inhibition values are reported as activity score zero.
The activity score range for active compounds is 100-1, for inactive 1-0.
List of Reagents:
His-tagged MITF protein (supplied by Min Guo)
His-tagged MITF_r259stop protein (supplied by Min Guo)
Biotinylated-MITF protein (supplied by Min Guo)
7,8-Dihydroxycoumarin (Sigma, part D5564)
HEPEs (Sigma, part H3375, H3784)
Sodium chloride (Fisher, part BP358-212)
Tween-20 (Fisher, part 50146671)
DMSO (Fisher, part D159)
BSA (Fisher, part BP1600-100)
AlphaScreen Beads Kit (Perkin Elmer, part 6760619L)
1536-well plates (Greiner Bio-One, part 789175)
Comment:
Due to the size of the Scripps Molecular Screening Center compound library, this assay have been run as multiple separate campaigns, each campaign testing a unique set of compounds. All data reported were normalized on a per-plate basis. Possible artifacts of this assay can include, but are not limited to: dust or lint located in or on wells of the microtiter plate, compounds that modulate well fluorescence. All test compound concentrations reported above and below are nominal; the specific test concentration(s) for a particular compound may vary based upon the actual sample provided by the Scripps Molecular Screening Center.