Abstract
Lysine acetylation plays a critical role in cellular regulation and is implicated in human disease. Sirtuin deacetylases remove acetyl groups from modified lysine residues, and sirtuin 3 (SIRT3) has been identified as a target for cancer therapeutics. Robust and high-throughput screening methods for these targets will be important to the development of therapeutics. This article describes the use of self-assembled monolayer desorption/ionization mass spectrometry, or SAMDI-MS - a label-free drug discovery tool - to characterize SIRT3 activity and discover inhibitors. SAMDI-MS was used to analyze a peptide array having 361 distinct acetylated peptides to identify an active SIRT3 substrate (GYKAcRGC). This peptide was used in a screen of 100,000 small molecules to identify inhibitors of SIRT3. A total of 306 SIRT3 inhibitors were identified, with one compound, SDX-437, having an IC50 of 700 nM with >100-fold selectivity for SIRT3 over SIRT1.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 842-848 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Journal of Biomolecular Screening |
Volume | 20 |
Issue number | 7 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 25 2015 |
Keywords
- deacetylase
- label-free
- peptide array
- self-assembled monolayers
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Drug Discovery
- Analytical Chemistry
- Molecular Medicine
- Biochemistry
- Biotechnology
- Pharmacology