A Fluorescence Lifetime-Based Binding Assay to Characterize Kinase Inhibitors

Invitrogen Corporation

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	Abstract

The authors present a fluorescence lifetime-based kinase binding assay that identifies and characterizes compounds that bind to the adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-binding pocket of a range of tyrosine and serine/threonine kinases. The assay is based on displacement of an Alexa Fluor^® 647 conjugate of staurosporine from the ATP-binding site of a kinase, which is detected by a change in the fluorescence lifetime of the probe between the free (displaced) and kinase-bound states. The authors screened 257 kinases for specific binding and displacement of the Alexa Fluor^® 647-staurosporine probe and found that approximately half of the kinases tested could potentially be assayed with this method. They present inhibitor binding data against 4 selected serine/threonine kinases and 4 selected tyrosine kinases, using 6 commonly used kinase inhibitors. Two of these kinases were chosen for further studies, in which inhibitor binding data were compared to inhibition of kinase activity using 2 separate activity assay formats. Rank-order potencies of compounds were similar, but not identical, between the binding and activity assays. It was postulated that these differences could be caused by the fact that the assays are measuring distinct phenomena, namely, activity versus binding, and in a purified recombinant kinase preparation, there can exist a mixture of active and nonactivated kinases. To explore this possibility, the authors compared binding affinity for the probe using 2 kinases in their respective nonactivated and activated (phosphorylated) forms and found a kinase-dependent difference between the 2 forms. This assay format therefore represents a simple method for the identification and characterization of small-molecule kinase inhibitors that may be useful in screening a wide range of kinases and may be useful in identifying small molecules that bind to kinases in their active or nonactivated states. (Journal of Biomolecular Screening XXXX:xx-xx)

First published on July 20, 2007, doi:10.1177/1087057107304480

Journal of Biomolecular Screening 2007;12:828.

A more recent version of this article appeared on September 1, 2007


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