Development of a Fluorescent Quenching Based High Throughput Assay to Screen for Calcineurin Inhibitors

Currently there is no effective treatment available for major neurodegenerative disorders associated to protein misfolding, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. One of most promising therapeutic approaches under development focuses on inhibiting the misfolding and aggregation pathway. However, it is likely that by the time clinical symptoms appear, there is a large accumulation of misfolded aggregates and a very substantial damage to the brain. Thus, it seems that at the clinical stage of the disease it is necessary also to develop strategies aiming to prevent the neuronal damage produced by already formed misfolded aggregates. Chronic activation of calcineurin (CaN), a type IIB phosphatase, has been implicated as a pivotal molecule connecting synaptic loss and neuronal damage to protein misfolding. The fact that the crystal structure of CaN is also well established makes it an ideal target for drug discovery. CaN activity assays for High Throughput Screening (HTS) reported so far are based on absorbance. In this article we report the development of a fluorescent quenching based CaN activity assay suitable for robotic screening of large chemical libraries to find novel inhibitors. The assay yielded a Z score of 0.84 with coefficient of variance ≤ 15%. Our results also show that this assay can be used to identify CaN inhibitors with a wide range of potencies.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2015

Erschienen:

2015

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

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PloS one - 10(2015), 7 vom: 01., Seite e0131297

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Mukherjee, Abhisek [VerfasserIn]
Syeb, Kathleen [VerfasserIn]
Concannon, John [VerfasserIn]
Callegari, Keri [VerfasserIn]
Soto, Claudio [VerfasserIn]
Glicksman, Marcie A [VerfasserIn]

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12058M7ORO
Calcineurin Inhibitors
Fluorescent Dyes
Journal Article
Malachite green
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Rosaniline Dyes
Small Molecule Libraries

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Date Completed 21.04.2016

Date Revised 13.11.2018

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1371/journal.pone.0131297

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NLM250902885