Patent Grant
10308974
The present application generally relates to reagents for detecting enzymes. More specifically, substrates for detecting various enzymes that remove modifications of ε-amino moieties are provided.
Most sirtuin enzymes, also known as class III histone deacetylases (class III HDACs), catalyze a reaction which couples deacetylation of protein ε-acetyllysine residues to the formation of O-acetyl-ADP-ribose and nicotinamide from NAD+ (Imai et al., 2000; Tanner et al., 2000; Tanny and Moazed, 2001). Some sirtuins, notably human sirtuins SIRT4 and SIRT6, catalyze an alternative reaction, the transfer of an ADP-ribosyl group from NAD+ to proteins (Liszt et al., 2005; Haigis et al., 2006), although the physiological relevance of these reactions is in question (Du et al., 2009). Sirtuin homologs are found in all forms of life, including the archaea, the bacteria, and both unicellular and multicellular eukaryotes (Smith et al., 2000; Blander and Guarente, 2004; Buck et al., 2004; Frye, 2000). The founding exemplar of the group, Sir2 from baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), was named for its role in gene-silencing (Silent information regulator 2; Rusche et al., 2003). Transcriptional silencing by Sir2 is linked to its deacetylation of lysines in the N-terminal tails of the histones in chromatin, hence the classification as a class III HDAC. Lysine deacetylation by sirtuins, however, extends beyond histones. Targets of sirtuin regulatory deacetylation include mammalian transcription factors such as p53 (Luo et al., 2001; Vaziri et al., 2001; Langley et al., 2002), the cytoskeletal protein tubulin (North et al., 2003), and the bacterial enzyme acetyl-CoA synthetase (Starai et al., 2002; Zhao et al., 2004) and its mammalian homologs (Shimazu et al., 2010).
SIRT5, along with two other mammalian sirtuins, SIRT3 and SIRT4, is localized to the mitochondria (Michishita et al., 2005; Nakagawa et al., 2009). The human SIRT5 gene is located in a chromosomal region in which abnormalities are associated with malignancies, suggesting a possible SIRT5 role in cancer (Mahlknecht et al., 2008). Thus far, the best studied of SIRT5's possible physiological roles is the deacetylation and enhancement of the activity of the mitochondrial matrix enzyme carbamoyl phosphate synthase 1 (CPS1), the rate-limiting enzyme for urea synthesis in the urea cycle (Nakagawa et al., 2009). Increased urea synthesis is required for removal of nitrogenous waste (ammonia) during periods of increased amino acid catabolism, including calorie restriction, fasting and the consumption of a high protein diet. Under these conditions, SIRT5 deacetylation of CPS1 is increased, along with CPS1 activity (Nakagawa et al., 2009). At least in the instance of starvation, the increased SIRT5 activity may be attributed to increased levels of the sirtuin co-substrate NAD+ in the mitochondria, which in turn is due to induction of the NAD+ synthetic pathway enzyme nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase, (Nampt) (Nakagawa et al., 2009). It should be noted, however, that two proteomic studies of the mouse mitochondrial “acetylome” are in possible conflict with the CPS1 results of Nakagawa et al. (2009). One group observed that calorie restriction increased acetylation at 7 of 24 sites in CPS1, but did not lead to deacetylation at any sites (Schwer et al., 2009). A comparison of the acetylated proteins of fed and fasted mice found that fasting induced the addition of 4 acetylated sites to CPS1, while only one of five sites present in the fed condition disappeared upon fasting (Kim, S. C. et al., 2006).
The evidence for another possible SIRT5 acetylated substrate, cytochrome c, is also equivocal (Huang et al., 2010; Gertz and Steegborn, 2010). While SIRT5 has been shown to deacetylate cytochrome c in vitro (Schlicker et al., 2008), there is conflicting data regarding whether it can localize to the same sub-mitochondrial compartment as cytochrome c, the intermembrane space (Schlicker et al., 2008; Nakamura et al., 2008; Nakagawa et al., 2009). Cytochrome c is a component of the respiratory electron transport chain and release of cytochrome c from the mitochondrial intermembrane space to the cytoplasm promotes apoptosis (programmed cell death). Overexpression of SIRT5 in cerebellar granule neurons is pro-apoptotic, consistent at least with a possible SIRT5 regulatory role in the latter of these two processes, apoptosis (Pfister et al., 2008). A regulatory SIRT5 role in respiration has also been suggested (Gertz and Steegborn, 2010).
An alternative view of SIRT5's physiological function is that it may primarily involve catalysis of reactions other than deacetylation. SIRT5's deacetylase activity is detectable but weak with an acetylated histone H4 peptide (North et al., 2005) and with chemically acetylated histones or bovine serum albumin (Schuetz et al., 2007). The catalytic efficiency of SIRT5 with an acetylated histone H3 peptide (kcat/Km=3.5 s−1 M−1) is orders of magnitude lower than several human and yeast sirtuins (SIRT1, SIRT2, Sir2, Hst2) and more than 20-fold lower than the next weakest deacetylase tested, human SIRT3 (Du et al., 2009). Although there is a seeming conflict between the idea of SIRT5 as a non-deacetylase and its effects on CPS1, it should be noted that the rate of SIRT5 deacetylation of CPS1 has not been quantified; the deacetylation was only shown in qualitative way by western blotting with anti-acetyllysine (Nakagawa et al., 2009). Further, although SIRT5 performs an NAD+-dependent activation of CPS1 and an NAD+-dependent deacetylation of CPS1, no mechanistic link between the deacetylation and the activation has been established. The in vitro SIRT5/CPS1 activation experiments were performed with crude mitochondrial matrix lysates from SIRT5 knockout mice serving as the CPS1 source (Nakagawa et al., 2009). Conceivably, the CPS1 harbored another modification, in addition to acetylation, that SIRT5 reversed in an NAD+-dependent reaction. Consistent with this possibility is recently presented evidence that mitochondrial proteins are lysine-succinylated and that SIRT5 can desuccinylate peptides with efficiencies similar to the deacetylation efficiencies of human SIRTs 1-3 (Lin, 2010).
The activity of lysine deacetylases (class I and II HDACs and sirtuins (class III HDACs)) can be conveniently measured with synthetic substrates of the general structure X-Lysine(ε-acetyl)-F, where F is a fluorophore or other moiety for which a measurable signal increases after cleavage of its direct covalent bond to the carboxyl of lysine and X may be an N-terminal blocking group such as acetyl (Ac) or a peptide sequence (for single-lysine substrates see Hoffman et al., 1999; Enzo Life Sciences Instruction Manual for BML-AK500; Zhou et al., 2001; Bitterman et al., 2002). For longer peptide substrates see U.S. Pat. Nos. 7,033,778; 7,256,013; Howitz et al., 2003. A signal proportional to deacetylation is generated by virtue of the fact that trypsin, among other lysyl-specific peptidases, will not cleave amide bonds on the carboxyl side of lysine if the ε-amino of the lysine side-chain is modified by an acetyl function (Pantazis and Bonner, 1981; Brownlee et al., 1983). A homogenous, endpoint deacetylase assay can thus consist of a two-step procedure in which the deacetylase is first allowed to act on the substrate and signal is then generated in a second step in which trypsin selectively cleaves the deacetylated substrate molecules. A continuously coupled version of this assay procedure has been described in which the deacetylase, the substrate, and trypsin are all present in same reaction mixture during the deacetylation reaction (Schultz et al., 2004). It should be noted that not all modifications of the lysine ε-amino function result in elimination of trypsin cleavability at the lysine carboxyl. Trypsin will cleave at a reduced but significant rate at Nε-monomethyllysine residues (Benoiton and Deneault, 1966; Seely and Benoiton, 1970; Martinez et al., 1972; Joys and Kim, 1979), while Nε,Nε-dimethyllysine residues are resistant to trypsin cleavage (Poncz and Dearborn, 1983).
Although “X-Lysine(ε-acetyl)-F” substrates are widely used for the assay of various HDAC and sirtuin isoforms, assay of SIRT5 has been problematic because the efficiency of SIRT5 deacetylation of such substrates is extremely poor. For example, it has been asserted that SIRT5 “does not” deacetylate the p53 peptide substrate Ac-Arg-His-Lys-Lys(ε-acetyl)-AMC (Nakagawa et al., 2009). While SIRT5 will in fact deacetylate this peptide, significant levels of deacetylation require either a combination of high peptide substrate concentration (e.g. 500 μM), high concentration of the cosubstrate NAD+ (1 to 5 mM) and large quantities of enzyme (˜5 μg/50 μl assay=˜3 μM SIRT5) (U.S. Patent Application Publication 20060014705) or the addition of a sirtuin activator such as resveratrol (Id.). Such conditions present severe practical problems for SIRT5 assays, particularly in drug discovery applications such as the screening of chemical libraries for SIRT5 inhibitor or activator “lead compounds” and the subsequent rounds of inhibitor/activator structure-activity relationship (SAR) characterization and chemical synthetic compound improvement. For example, high concentrations of the “X-Lysine(ε-acetyl)-F” type fluorogenic substrates produce a high background fluorescence in all samples. High fluorescence background increases the difficulty of observing statistically significant differences among positive controls, negative controls and inhibitor/activator “hits” (Zhang et al., 1999). Further, the lower limit for determining an enzyme inhibitor's IC50 (concentration at which the inhibitor lowers enzyme activity to 50% of the uninhibited control sample) is ½ the enzyme concentration (Copeland, 2000; Inglese et al., 2008). Thus, the use of a high enzyme concentrations in an assay impedes the ability to quantitatively distinguish high and low potency inhibitors/activators and consequently interferes with chemical synthetic efforts to optimize pharmaceutical lead compounds.
The present invention provides compositions and methods which solve these problems for SIRT5 by, for example, enabling assays to be performed at drastically lower enzyme concentrations (≤20 ng/50 μl, ≤12 nM) and at lower fluorogenic substrate concentrations (≤50 μM), which produce lower fluorescent background levels. Substrates for detecting other enzymes that remove modifications of ε-amino moieties are also provided.
Provided herein are compounds and methods useful for detecting enzymes that remove formyl, succinyl, methyl succinyl, or myristoyl moieties from ε-amino lysine moieties of proteins. In some embodiments, a compound is provided that comprises the structure:
In other embodiments, a kit is provided that comprises the above compound, with instructions for determining the presence of the enzyme.
In further embodiments, a method is provided for determining whether a sample has an enzyme that removes a moiety from an ε-amino of a lysine, wherein the moiety is a succinyl, a methyl succinyl, a formyl, or a myristoyl. The method comprises (a) combining the sample with the above compound to make a sample-compound mixture, wherein R3 of the compound is the moiety; (b) incubating the sample-compound mixture under conditions and for a time sufficient to allow the enzyme to remove the R3; and (c) determining whether the R3 is removed from the compound. In these methods, removal of R3 from the compound indicates that the sample has the enzyme.
Additionally provided is a method of determining whether a molecule inhibits an enzyme that removes a moiety from an ε-amino of a lysine, wherein the moiety is a succinyl, a methyl succinyl, a formyl, or a myristoyl. The method comprises (a) combining the enzyme and the molecule with the above compound to make an enzyme-molecule-compound mixture, wherein R3 of the compound is the moiety; (b) incubating the enzyme-molecule-compound mixture under conditions and for a time sufficient for the enzyme to remove the moiety in the absence of the molecule; and (c) determining whether the R3 is removed from the compound to an equivalent degree that R3 would be removed from the compound in the absence of the molecule. In these methods, the failure of the removal of R3 from the compound to an equivalent degree as in the absence of the molecule indicates that the molecule is an inhibitor of the enzyme.
As used herein, the singular forms “a”, “an” and “the” are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. Additionally, the use of “or” is intended to include “and/or”, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
The present invention is directed to compounds and methods useful for detecting enzymes that remove formyl, succinyl, methyl succinyl, or myristoyl moieties from ε-amino lysine moieties of proteins. Methods for identifying inhibitors of those enzymes are also provided.
Thus, in some embodiments, a compound is provided that comprises the structure:
wherein
When the above compound is combined with an enzyme that removes the R3 moiety under the proper conditions (e.g., in the presence of NAD+ when the enzyme is a class III HDAC [sirtuin]), the enzyme will remove the R3 moiety, leaving an unaltered lysine residue. The resulting compound can be identified by any method known in the art, for example by mass spectroscopy, an immunoassay with an antibody that can distinguish between the compound with the R3 group and without it, or an appropriate chromatographic method. In some embodiments, the compound without the R3 group is a substrate for a peptidase while the compound with the R3group is not a peptidase substrate, such that removal of the R3 group followed by treatment with the peptidase leaves SIG-R1. In various embodiments, such as where SIG is a fluorescent or a luminescent moiety, SIG-R1 has an increased signal (e.g., increased fluorescence or luminescence) than the intact compound. Under those conditions, the removal of the R3 group is detected by addition of the peptidase, releasing SIG-R1 and providing an increased signal. This increased signal thus establishes the presence of the enzyme that removes the R3 group.
Thus, in some embodiments, the compound is a substrate for an enzyme such that the enzyme cleaves R3 from the compound allowing a peptidase to cleave the resulting molecule between the R1 and the CO moieties, such that SIG generates an increased signal relative to the signal generated with the compound. In these embodiments, the peptidase cannot cleave the compound comprising R3. See Example.
The peptidase for these embodiments can be any peptidase that is capable of cleaving the compound without the R3 group to release SIG-R1 but not capable of cleaving the compound with the R3 group. A nonlimiting example of such a peptidase, where the R3 group is a succinyl, a methyl succinyl, or a myristoyl group, is trypsin.
Where the R3 group is a formyl group, trypsin cannot be used as described for the other R3 groups, since trypsin is capable of cleaving the compound between the R1 and CO moieties even when the formyl group is not removed, albeit at a slower rate. See Benoiton and Deneault (1966), Seely and Benoiton (1970); Martinez et al. (1972); and Joys and Kim (1979). Under those circumstances, the use of trypsin would have to be modified such that the trypsin concentration is low enough such that the cleavage kinetics could be observed, where faster cleavage would indicate the elimination of the formyl R3 group and slower cleavage would indicate the retention of the formyl R3 group. Alternatively, another peptidase could be used when the R3 group is a formyl group, e.g., a peptidase that will not cleave the compound between the R1 and CO moieties when the formyl is present but will when the formyl is cleaved. A likely example of such an enzyme is endoproteinase Lys-C, which is unable to cleave monomethyllysine residues in proteins.
In some embodiments of these compounds, R1 is NH. In other embodiments, m is 1 or 2.
In various embodiments, the R2 moiety is a chemical protecting group. Such a protecting group is useful for the synthesis of the compound, since blocking the α-amino group allows the unambiguous addition of the R3 moiety to the ε-amino group, without concern that the R3 moiety would be inadvertently added to the α-amino group. Any protecting group known in the art as useful for protecting amino moieties could be useful here. Nonlimiting examples include FMOC, acetyl, benzoyl, Aloc, arysulfenyl, benzyl, BOM, BOC, carbobenzyloxy, diphenylmethylene, DMPM, EE, PMB, methoxycarbonyl, MeOZ, MoM, PMP, Noc, Nosyl, Nps, PhFI, Psec, pixyl, tosyl, Tsoc, Troc, trifluoroacetyl, TIPS, TMS, SES, Teoc, SEM, and Trity. In some embodiments (as in the Example) R2 is an acetyl group.
Examples of the compounds include
In various embodiments, m is 1 or 2.
These compounds are useful for detecting any enzyme that removes the R3 group. In some embodiments, the enzyme is a histone deacetylase (HDAC). As shown in Table 2 below, particularly HDAC2 and HDAC3/NCOR1 complex have some activity removing the R3 moiety when that moiety is a succinyl group. Additionally, as shown in Table 3 below, HDAC, HDAC3, and particularly HDAC2 and HDAC3/NCOR1 complex have activity removing the R3 moiety when that moiety is a myristoyl or a methyl succinyl group. Additionally, HDAC9 has activity removing a methyl succinyl R3 group.
In some of these embodiments, the HDAC is a sirtuin (a class III HDAC). As shown in Table 3 below, SIRT1, SIRT3 and SIRT6 have activity removing a myristoyl R3 group. Additionally, as discussed extensively in the Example and shown in Table 2, SIRT5 has activity removing a succinyl R3 group that is about two orders of magnitude greater than its deacetylase activity.
The signal, SIG, can be any chemical compound that has decreased fluorescence, luminescence or color intensity when functionalized with one or more of the
groups. Ideally, SIG is non-fluorescent, non-luminescent and colorless when the group is attached and intensely fluorescent, luminescent or colored when the group is removed. Additionally, SIG should contain or should be readily modified to contain reactive functionalities, as further discussed below, to which the above group could be attached to form a probe.
The invention is not narrowly limited to the use of any particular SIG. In various embodiments, SIG is a chromophore, a fluorophore, a luminescent moiety, an enzyme, a catalytic antibody, a ribozyme or a pro-enzyme.
In some embodiments, SIG is a fluorophore. Any fluorophore now known or later discovered can be utilized in these compounds. Examples of useful fluorophores include without limitation a symmetric or asymmetric cyanine dye, a merocyanine dye, a styryl dye, an oxazine dye, a xanthene dye, a coumarin dye or an iminocoumarin dye.
One class of the signal molecule, SIG, useful in the invention has a xanthene backbone shown in Scheme I below. The structures include both classical xanthene dyes and their lactone forms (Structures A and B, respectively) as well as aphenylic counterparts, which have their appended phenyl ring missing (Structures C).
The substituent R5 in Scheme I represents a variety of functionalities where at least one R5 is a reactive group, which allows the attachment of the
group and, if desired, at least one other R5 is a reactive group, which allows the attachment of a protecting group to prevent attachment of additional groups, if preferred. The R5s may be structurally the same or different and there may be several of them per ring. Also, some of the rings may not have any R's attached. Suitable examples of R5 include, but are not limited to hydrogen, a halogen (F, Cl, Br, I), a nitro group (NO2), a nitroso group (NO), a hydroxylamino group (NHOH), a cyano group (CN), an isocyano group (NC), a thiocyano group (SCN), an isothiocyano group (SNC), an azido group (N3), a trihalomethyl group (CX3, where X is a halogen), a sulfonate group (SO3R6), a sulfate group (OSO3R6), a carboxyl group (CO2H), a carbonyl group (COR6), an ester group (CO2R6 or OCOR6), an amide group (CONR62 or NR6COR6), a carbamate group (NR6CO2R6 or OCONR62), a phosphate group (OPO3R63), a phosphonate group (PO3R62), an amino group (NR62), an alkoxy group (OR6), a thiol group (SR6), a sulfoxy group (SOR6), a sulfone group (SO2R6), a sulfonamide group (SO2NR62), a phosphino group (PR62), a silane group (SiR63), an optionally substituted straight-chain, branched or cyclic alkyl, alkenyl or alkynyl group wherein one or more C, CH or CH2 groups can be replaced with O atom, N atom, S atom, NH group, CO group, OCO group, CONR6 group, or an optionally substituted aromatic group. In these embodiments, each R6 is independently hydrogen, an optionally substituted straight-chain, branched or cyclic alkyl, alkenyl or alkynyl group wherein one or more C, CH or CH2 groups can be replaced with O atom, N atom, S atom, NH group, CO group, OCO group, CONR6 group, or an optionally substituted aromatic group.
Two or more R5 groups in these fluorophores can be linked together to form rings containing one or more of the same or different heteroatoms, such as O, N or S.
Substituents R5 in these fluorophores that are not directly involved in attachment of self-immolative or urea-containing groups may be present in the molecule for other reasons. These reasons may include modification of spectroscopic characteristics of the dye, its solubility, chemical stability, charge, or photobleaching resistance. Some R5 substituents may be useful for binding to a biomolecule or structure to be studied, such as nucleic acid, protein or lipid.
As discussed above, one of the R5 or R6 groups is, or can be substituted to contain, a reactive group thereby allowing the dyes of the present invention to be attached to an
group. Examples of reactive groups that may find use in the present invention can include but not be limited to a nucleophilic reactive group, an electrophilic reactive group, a terminal alkene, a terminal alkyne, a platinum coordinate group or an alkylating agent.
There are a number of different electrophilic reactive groups that may find use in these embodiments. Examples include but not be limited to isocyanate, isothiocyanate, monochlorotriazine, dichlorotriazine, 4,6,-dichloro-1,3,5-triazines, mono- or di-halogen substituted pyridine, mono- or di-halogen substituted diazine, maleimide, haloacetamide, aziridine, sulfonyl halide, acid halide, hydroxysuccinimide ester, hydroxysulfosuccinimide ester, imido ester, hydrazine, azidonitrophenol, azide, 3-(2-pyridyl dithio)-proprionamide, glyoxal and aldehyde groups. Nucleophilic reactive groups can include but not be limited to reactive thiol, amine and hydroxyl groups. For purposes of synthesis of dyes, reactive thiol, amine or hydroxyl groups can be protected during various synthetic steps and the reactive groups generated after removal of the protective group.
One class of xanthene fluorophores useful in the present invention includes but not limited to rhodamine and rhodamine derivatives, such as Pennsylvania Green, Tokyo Green, Oregon Green, Singapore Green, and rosamines and rhodols and their derivatives. Some of these derivatives are shown below in Scheme II. The rhodamine, rosamine and rhodol backbone structures can be extended by adding additional rings as shown in Scheme III, or their appended phenyl ring might be missing to form aphenylic counterparts.
Another class of fluorescent dyes pertinent to the present invention is derivatized from the aforementioned rhodamines, rosamines and rhodols and can be represented by the general structures shown in Scheme IV.
The substituent R5 in Scheme IV is defined as described for Scheme I. The moiety A can be oxygen or sulfur while Z can be oxygen, sulfur or nitrogen unsubstituted or substituted with a group Y. The group Y, in turn, can be hydrogen, an optionally substituted straight-chain, branched or cyclic alkyl, alkenyl or alkynyl group wherein one or more C, CH or CH2 groups can be replaced with O atom, N atom, S atom, NH group, CO group, OCO group, CONR3 group, or an optionally substituted aromatic group. Y can also be another nitrogen, oxygen or sulfur atom substituted with hydrogen or an optionally substituted straight-chain, branched or cyclic alkyl, alkenyl or alkynyl group wherein one or more C, CH or CH2 groups can be replaced with O atom, N atom, S atom, NH group, CO group, OCO group, CONR3 group, or an optionally substituted aromatic group. The substituent Y can be a part of an aliphatic or aromatic cyclic structure such as morpholine, piperidine, pyrrolidine, piperazine, imidazole, triazole, oxazole, thiazole and others known in the art. Additionally, both Z and Y can contain electrophilic or nucleophilic reactive groups defined above.
Yet another class of fluorescent dyes pertinent to the present invention is based on coumarin and iminocoumarin backbone structure shown in Scheme V.
The substituent R5 in the Scheme V represents functionalities defined in Scheme I above while A can be oxygen atom, O, or imino group, NH. Some of the compounds in this category are shown below in Scheme VI. The backbone structure can be extended by adding additional rings, aliphatic or aromatic, substituted or unsubstituted.
In other embodiments of the compounds of the present invention, SIG is a luminescent moiety. Any luminescent moiety, including any chemiluminescent or bioluminescent moieties, now known or later discovered, can be utilized in these embodiments. In some aspects of these embodiments, the compound comprises the structure:
wherein
each R5 is independently hydrogen, a halogen (F, Cl, Br, I), a nitro group (NO2), a nitroso group (NO), a hydroxylamino group (NHOH), a cyano group (CN), an isocyano group (NC), a thiocyano group (SCN), an isothiocyano group (SNC), an azido group (N3), a trihalomethyl group (CX3, where X is a halogen); a sulfonate group (SO3R6), a sulfate group (OSO3R6), a carboxyl group (CO2H), a carbonyl group (COR6), an ester group (CO2R6 or OCOR6), an amide group (CONR62 or NR6COR6), a carbamate group (NR6CO2R6 or OCONR62), a phosphate group (OPO3R63), a phosphonate group (PO3R62), an amino group (NR62), an alkoxy group (OR6), a thiol group (SR6), a sulfoxy group (SOR6), a sulfone group (SO2R6), a sulfonamide group (SO2NR62), a phosphino group (PR62), a silane group (SiR63), an optionally substituted straight-chain, branched or cyclic alkyl, alkenyl or alkynyl group wherein one or more C, CH or CH2 groups can be replaced with O atom, N atom, S atom, NH group, CO group, OCO group, CONR6 group, or an optionally substituted aromatic group; and
each R6 is independently hydrogen, an optionally substituted straight-chain, branched or cyclic alkyl, alkenyl or alkynyl group wherein one or more C, CH or CH2 groups can be replaced with O atom, N atom, S atom, NH group, CO group, OCO group, CONR6 group, or an optionally substituted aromatic group.
In some embodiments, the SIG is a fluorescent compound that targets a specific subcellular organelle, for example the lysosome, mitochondria, vacuole, nucleus or nucleolus. See, e.g., PCT/US10/002494 and PCT/US10/02572 and references cited therein.
Specific examples of the invention compounds, as further described in the example below include
The first two compounds above are SIRT5 substrates, as they have a succinyl group as the R3 moiety. See Example, where those two compounds are Compound 1 (Ac-Lys(Succ.)-AMC) and Compound 2 ((Ac-Lys(Succ.))2-R110), respectively. Those compounds can be generalized as the formulas X-Lysine(ε-succinyl)-F and (X-Lysine(ε-succinyl))2-F respectively, where, for both Compound 1 and Compound 2, X is an Na acetyl function (Ac), and F is AMC, for Compound 1 and R110 (rhodamine green) for Compound 2. X could, however, be replaced by other N-terminal protecting groups, such as t-butyloxycarbonyl (Boc) or benzyloxycarbonyl (Cbz) or by peptide sequences of various lengths, while maintaining the essence of the assay principle (i.e. desuccinylation-dependent increase in a signal produced by a trypsin treatment, see
Other candidate amino acid sequences that might function well as the Xgroup in SIRT5 substrates could be sought by means of an anti-succinyllysine antibody. The immunizing antigen for such an antibody may be prepared, for example, by succinylation of the protein keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH) with succinic anhydride, a procedure equivalent to that used to prepare the immunogens for rabbit polyclonal anti-propionyllysine and anti-butyryllysine antibodies (Enzo Life Sciences Cat. #s BML-SA683, BML-SA682). Production of the same immunogen via carbodiimide coupling and its use in preparation of a mouse monoclonal anti-succinyllysine have also been described (Kawai et al, 2006). An anti-succinyllysine antibody could be used to prepare an affinity chromatography matrix to enrich succinylated proteins from a mitochondrial or other cellular fraction. The succinylated proteins and the sequences surrounding their sites of lysine-succinylation could then be identified by established chromatographic and mass spectrometric procedures (Cheng et al., 2009). An anti-succinyllysine antibody could also form the basis of desuccinylation assays differing from the fluorometric assays already described (e.g.
Although one may yet be identified, there is currently no known Nε-lysyl succinyltransferase that can perform protein lysyl succinylation using succinyl-CoA as the succinyl donor, a reaction analogous to those of the protein (histone) acetyltransferases (HATs); see Hodawadekar and Marmorstein, 2007. However, non-enzymatic succinylation of lysine by the peroxidation products of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) has been demonstrated in vitro with peptides and proteins and the formation of protein succinyllysine residues in vivo has been shown to occur in DHA-fed mice subjected to oxidative stress (Kawai et al., 2006). Thus, another route to identification of the amino acid sequences proximal to native lysine succinylation sites would be to expose mitochondrial protein fractions to DHA oxidation products (Id.) and to then identify the sites by established chromatographic and mass spectrometric procedures (Cheng et al, 2009). Since these sites would be expected to include those that are targets of SIRT5 action in vivo, some of the sequences so identified would likely enhance the SIRT5 activity when incorporated into the “X” and/or “F” portions of synthetic substrate structures. Note that incorporation of a sequence from the N-terminal side of native SIRT1 deacetylation targets p53 Lys(Ac)-382 and histone H4 Lys(Ac)-16 has been shown to enhance activity relative to the single-lysine substrate Ac-Lys(Ac)-AMC and relative to substrates incorporating sequence from non-targeted sites (Howitz et al, 2003); Appendix E, Enzo Life Sciences Product instruction manual/assay kit protocol for SIRT1, Cat. #BML-AK555).
For Compound 1 and Compound 2, fitting the general formulas X-Lysine(ε-succinyl)-F and (X-Lysine(ε-succinyl))2-F, signal generation is due to the bathochromic shift in fluorescence emission upon a desuccinylation-dependent trypsin-catalyzed release of the “F” function, where F is AMC, for Compound 1 and is either R110 (rhodamine green) or the mono-succinyllysine derivative (X-Lys(Succ.))-F for Compound 2. However, F could be any moiety that undergoes some spectroscopic change upon the desuccinylation-dependent hydrolysis of its bond with the carboxyl function of the lysine. For example, F could bep-nitroaniline (pNA), whose absorbance at 405 nm increases after trypsin hydrolysis of an amide bond between pNA and the lysine carboxyl (Appendix G, Enzo Life Sciences Instruction Manual for BML-AK501). Substrates with such dyes in the F position could be used in conjunction with one of the previously listed charge-neutralizing modifications to the distal carboxyl of the succinyl moiety, such as AM-esterification, thus combining an element that improves membrane permeability with one enabling targeting to SIRT5's subcellular location in the mitochondria or the nuclear location of class I HDACs.
For Compounds 1 and 2, and for those described immediately above, a dye group F in the structures X-Lysine(ε-succinyl)-F and (X-Lysine(ε-succinyl))2-F directly forms a direct bond with the carbonyl of lysine and provides the assay signal upon desuccinylation-dependent trypsin cleavage of that bond. A substrate incorporating an equivalent desuccinylation-dependent signaling system could, alternatively, comprise the following: 1) a spectroscopically detectable function z that is part of either F or X, but does not form a direct covalent bond to the lysine carbonyl; and 2) a function q that is part of X if z is part of F or is part of F if z is part of X and which acts to suppress the detectable signal from z unless a desuccinylation-dependent cleavage of the bond between the lysine carbonyl and F occurs. An example of such a substrate is the peptide: (5-FAM)-QSTSSHS-K(Succ.)-LMFK[A2] (5(6)-TAMRA), (one-letter amino acid code, 5-FAM=5-carboxyfluorescein modifying the N-terminus, 5(6)-TAMRA=5-(and 6)-carboxytetramethylrhodamine modifying the ε-amino of the lysine side chain). This peptide comprises the residues 375-386 of p53, but is modified by R(379)S and K(381)S substitutions to eliminate trypsin-cleavable sites (underlined) and is succinylated on the ε-amino of K(382). In terms of the generalized structure, X-Lysine(ε-succinyl)-F, (5-FAM)-QSTSSHS is X, LMFK (5(6)-TAMRA) is F, z is 5-FAM and q is 5(6)-TAMRA. In the intact peptide, the fluorescence of the 5-FAM (Ex. 492 nm; Em. 518 nm) is quenched by resonance energy transfer due to proximity and spectral overlap with 5(6)-TAMRA (Ex. 542 nm; Em. 568). Desuccinylation-dependent trypsin cleavage after K(382) would produce a fluorescein fluorescence signal by separating the 5-FAM from the quenching 5(6)-TAMRA. Replacement of trypsin with the similar, but lysine-specific, enzyme lysyl endopeptidase (EndoLysC; EC 3.4.21.50) would allow the inclusion of arginine residues (trypsin cleavable sites) in sequence intervening between the signaling “z” function and the signal-suppressing “q” function. In the preceding example, the q group suppresses the signal from the z group by fluorescence resonance energy transfer, but with different types of q moieties other mechanisms may be employed. For example, q could be an affinity tag such as biotin, allowing the physical removal of the background fluorescence inherent in the remaining succinylated/uncleaved peptide by means of the biotin-binding protein streptavidin linked to a solid support such as agarose beads.
The succinylated substrate Ac-Lys(Succ.)-AMC (Compound 1), in addition to providing a highly effective and convenient means of SIRT5 assay, also provided the means to discover a surprisingly strong, TSA-sensitive desuccinylase activity in HeLa cell extracts, in all likelihood due to class I HDACs (see
One reason for the prediction that additional non-deacetylase/non-desuccinylase lysyl deacylase activities remain to be discovered is the documented existence of in vivo modifications to the ε-amino group of lysine that derive from reaction with oxidative breakdown products of various biomolecules. For example, 3′-formylphosphate, which arises from the 5′-oxidation of deoxyribose in DNA leads to the N-formylation of lysines in histones and this process is stimulated by oxidative stress (Jiang et al., 2007). Formylation of the linker histone H1 is especially prevalent (Wisniewski et al., 2007), but also extends to the N-terminal tails and globular domains of core histones and other nuclear proteins (Wisniewski et al., 2008). Such modifications would be expected to interfere with chromatin structure (DNA binding by histone H1 and core histones) and with the system of epigenetic lysine modifications (acetylation, methylation especially in core histone N-terminal tails) that function in the regulation of gene expression. Therefore a lysine deformylase that functions as a repair enzyme in response to oxidative stress damage must be considered a distinct possibility and substrates of type X-Lysine(ε-formyl)-F or (X-Lysine(ε-formyl))2-F would be useful for the same processes described above for succinylated substrates.
Peroxides derived from the oxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) can react with cellular proteins to form novel Nε-acylated lysine residues (for review see Kato and Osawa, 2010). As noted above, protein lysine residues can be succinylated by reaction with the peroxidation products of DHA, a PUFA (Kawai et al., 2006). In addition, PUFA-derived N-acyl-lysine adducts can include the hexanoyl, glutaroyl and azelayl acylations. Similar to the formyl modification, these are the result of oxidative stress and could be disruptive to protein function. Therefore, lysine deacylases specific for these modifications and that function as repair enzymes in response to oxidative stress damage must be considered a distinct possibility. Thus substrates of type X-Lysine(ε-acyl)-F or (X-Lysine(ε-acyl))2-F would be useful for the same discovery processes described above for succinylated substrates. The ε-acyl functions would include the hexanoyl, glutaroyl and azelayl moieties.
As noted earlier, Nε-acetylation of protein lysine residues is catalyzed by transferases that use acetyl-CoA as the donor of the acetyl group. There are twenty-six acyl-coenzyme A synthetases in the human genome (Watkins et al., 2007) and the Human Metabolome Database lists 134 acyl-CoAs that could be the source of novel lysine acylations catalyzed by hitherto unidentified transferase enzymes (see the website hmdb.ca/search/search?query=%22CoA %22), exclusive of: 1) CoA itself, 2) acetyl-CoA, propanoyl-CoA, butyryl-CoA (known substrates of the acetyltransferases (HATs)), 3) propinol, propinol adenylate, 3-hydroxyvaleric acid (non-CoA metabolites). Each of these may be considered a potential acyl donor for transfer to the Nε-amino function of protein lysines and consequently substrates of type X-Lysine(ε-acyl)-F or (X-Lysine(ε-acyl))2-F, where the ε-acyl function is any of the 134 cited above, would be useful for the same types of discovery processes described above for succinylated substrates. For one of these acyl-CoA's, myristoyl-CoA, there is evidence for its use in transfer to specific lysine residues in the precursor protein of tumor necrosis factor α (Stevenson et al., 1992) and in the precursor protein of interleukin 1a (IL-1a) (Stevenson et al., 1993).
Any of the above-described compounds can be packaged in a kit for commercial sale. In some embodiments, the kit further comprises instructions for determining the presence of the enzyme, or instructions for determining the presence of an inhibitor of the enzyme. In some of these embodiments, the enzyme is a histone deacetylase (HDAC), for example, a sirtuin, e.g., SIRT5. An example of a compound that could usefully be packed in a kit is
More specific examples include
These kits can also contain other reagents that are useful for determining the presence of the enzyme or an inhibitor of the enzyme. Non-limiting examples of such reagents include a standard of a known concentration of the enzyme and/or an inhibitor of the enzyme, a peptidase (e.g., trypsin), luciferase if SIG is a luciferase substrate, and/or appropriate buffers.
The present invention is also directed to a method of determining whether a sample has an enzyme that removes a moiety from an ε-amino of a lysine, where the moiety is a succinyl, a methyl succinyl, a formyl, or a myristoyl. The method comprises
(a) combining the sample with any of the above-described compounds to make a sample-compound mixture, where R3 of the compound is the moiety;
(b) incubating the sample-compound mixture under conditions and for a time sufficient to allow the enzyme to remove the R3; and
(c) determining whether the R3 is removed from the compound. In these methods, removal of R3 from the compound indicates that the sample has the enzyme.
The proper conditions for incubating the sample-compound mixture could be determined for any particular enzyme without undue experimentation. For example, when the enzyme is a class III HDAC [sirtuin]), NAD+ should be present.
The determination of whether the R3 moiety is removed can be by any means known in the art, for example by mass spectroscopy, an immunoassay with an antibody that can distinguish between the compound with the R3 group and without it, or an appropriate chromatographic method. In some embodiments, the compound is a substrate for a peptidase after the enzyme cleaves R3 from the compound but not if the R3 is not removed from the compound. In such as case, the determining step further comprises
(i) adding the peptidase to the mixture for a time sufficient for the peptidase to cleave the resulting molecule between the R1 and the CO moieties, such that SIG generates an increased signal relative to the signal generated with the compound; and
(ii) determining whether SIG generates an increased signal relative to the signal generated with the compound. Here, an increased signal (e.g., greater fluorescence) indicates that the sample has the enzyme.
The present methods are not narrowly limited to the use of any particular peptidase. In various embodiments, the peptidase is a trypsin (e.g., where the R3 group is a succinyl, a methyl succinyl, or a myristoyl group) or an endoproteinase Lys-C.
These methods can be utilized with a sample from any source. In some embodiments, the sample is a purified preparation of the enzyme. In other embodiments, the sample is an extract of a cell, tissue or organ of a multicellular eukaryote, for example a mammal. The sample can comprise, for example, a living cell or a homogenized mixture from tissue.
These methods are not limited to detection of any class of enzyme, provided the enzyme is capable of removing the R3 moiety from the compound. In some embodiments, the enzyme is a histone deacetylase (HDAC), for example a sirtuin, e.g., SIRT5.
An example of a compound useful for these methods is
More specific examples include
In some embodiments of these methods, the enzyme is quantified in the sample by measuring the rate of removal of the R3 moiety and comparing that rate to the rate of removal of a known amount of the enzyme (i.e., comparing to a standard curve of the enzyme action on the compound). In various embodiments, the rate of removal is determined by the increased signal from SIG after addition of a peptidase, and comparing the increased signal to a standard curve that provides the quantity of the enzyme that leads to the increased signal.
The above-described compounds can also be used to identify an inhibitor for an enzyme that removes the R3 moiety from any of the above-described compounds, by determining whether a putative inhibitor prevents removal of the R3 moiety from the compound. Thus, the invention also is directed to a method of determining whether a molecule inhibits an enzyme that removes a moiety from an ε-amino of a lysine, where the moiety is a succinyl, a methyl succinyl, a formyl, or a myristoyl. The method comprises
(a) combining the enzyme and the molecule with any of the above-described compounds to make an enzyme-molecule-compound mixture, where R3 of the compound is the moiety;
(b) incubating the enzyme-molecule-compound mixture under conditions and for a time sufficient for the enzyme to remove the moiety in the absence of the molecule; and
(c) determining whether the R3 is removed from the compound to an equivalent degree that R3 would be removed from the compound in the absence of the molecule. In these methods, the failure of the removal of R3 from the compound to an equivalent degree as in the absence of the molecule indicates that the molecule is an inhibitor of the enzyme.
The determination of whether the R3 moiety is removed can be by any means known in the art, for example by mass spectroscopy, an immunoassay with an antibody that can distinguish between the compound with the R3 group and without it, or an appropriate chromatographic method. In some embodiments, the compound is a substrate for a peptidase after the enzyme cleaves R3 from the compound but not if the R3 is not removed from the compound. In such as case, the determining step further comprises
(i) adding the peptidase to the mixture for a time sufficient for the peptidase to cleave the resulting molecule between the R1 and the CO moieties, such that SIG generates an increased signal relative to the signal generated with the compound; and
(ii) determining whether SIG generates an increased signal relative to the signal generated with the compound. Here, an increased signal indicates the removal of R3 from the compound.
These methods are not narrowly limited to the use of any particular peptidase. In various embodiments, the peptidase is a trypsin (e.g., where the R3 group is a succinyl, a methyl succinyl, or a myristoyl group) or an endoproteinase Lys-C.
Further, these methods are not limited to detection of any class of enzyme, provided the enzyme is capable of removing the R3 moiety from the compound. In some embodiments, the enzyme is a histone deacetylase (HDAC), for example a sirtuin, e.g., SIRT5.
An example of a compound useful for these methods is
More specific examples include
These methods can utilize high-throughput and automation methods and equipment known in the art to assay more than one molecule simultaneously. Such methods are useful for assaying any number of compounds, for example from a chemical library. In some embodiments, more than 10 molecules are subjected to the method simultaneously. In other embodiments, more than 50 molecules are subjected to the method simultaneously.
Preferred embodiments are described in the following example. Other embodiments within the scope of the claims herein will be apparent to one skilled in the art from consideration of the specification or practice of the invention as disclosed herein. It is intended that the specification, together with the examples, be considered exemplary only, with the scope and spirit of the invention being indicated by the claims, which follow the examples.
The compound, N—(Nα-acetyl-L-Lysine(Nε-succinyl))-AMC (Ac-Lys(Succ.)-AMC; AMC=7-amino-4-methylcoumarin) is depicted as Compound 1 and was synthesized as follows. Succinic anhydride (0.2 mmol, 0.020 g) was added under an argon atmosphere to a suspension of Ac-Lys-AMC (0.2 mmol, 0.069 g) in DMF (1.3 ml). The mixture was stirred for four hours at room temperature. All volatility was evaporated under vacuum. The residue was purified by flash chromatography (silica gel; 5% to 15% MeOH in CH2Cl2) to give a yellowish solid as an impure compound. The mixture was further purified by reverse phase chromatography (C18 silica gel, 100% H2O to 15% H2O in MeOH to 100% MeOH) to afford 0.077 g of Ac-Lys(Succ.)-AMC as an off-white pure solid (purity >98% TLC, Rf: 0.45, 20% MeOH/CH2Cl2, 86% yield); C22H27N3O7, FW: 445.50.
The 1H-NMR spectrum and mass spectroscopy analysis (MS:468.1 (M+Na+)) were consistent with the structure depicted as Compound 1, Ac-Lys(Succ.)-AMC.
The compound, N,N′-Bis(α-acetyl-Lysine(ε-succinyl))-rhodamine 110 ((Ac-K(Succ.)2-R110) was prepared as follows. Pyridine (1 ml) and 1-ethyl-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)-carbodiimide hydrochloride (1.4 mmol, 0.268 g, Chem-Impex-International, Cat. #00050) was added to a solution of Rhodamine Green 560 chloride (rhodamine 110, 0.5 mmol, 0.183 g) and Ac-Lys(Boc)-OH (1.05 mmol, 0.303 g, Bachem Cat. # E1040) in DMF (1 ml) at 0° C. under an argon atmosphere. The mixture was stirred at room temperature overnight. All volatility was evaporated by vacuum. The residue was purified by flash chromatography (silica gel; 5% to 15% MeOH in CH2Cl2) to yield a yellowish, semisolid impure intermediate (0.24 g, 28% yield). The intermediate (0.24 g, 0.27 mmol) was dissolved in CH2Cl2 (1.5 ml). Trifluoroacetic acid (1.5 ml) was added to this solution at 0° C. The mixture was stirred at room temperature for 1 hour. All the solvents were evaporated by rotary evaporator to give 0.20 g of the deprotected (deBOC) compound. Succinic anhydride (0.075 g, 0.075 mmol) was added to a suspension of the deBOC compound (0.10 g, 0.15 mmol) in DMF (1 ml). The resulting mixture was stirred overnight under an argon atmosphere at room temperature. All volatility was evaporated and the mixture was purified by flash chromatography (10% to 30% MeOH in CH2Cl2) to yield a yellow, solid mixture. The mixture was purified again by reverse phase chromatography (C18 silica gel, 100% H2O to 10% H2O in MeOH to 100% MeOH) to afford 0.022 g of pure compound: C44H50N6O13, FW: 870.90. The NMR spectrum was consistent with the structure depicted as Compound 2, N, N′-Bis(α-acetyl-Lysine(ε-succinyl))-rhodamine 110 ((Ac-K(Succ.))2-R110).
The compound N—(Nα-acetyl-L-Lysine(Nε-formyl))-AMC (Ac-Lys(Form.)-AMC) is depicted as Compound 3 and was synthesized as follows: Acetic anhydride (0.06 ml, Aldrich) was added to a suspension of Ac-Lys-AMC (0.0143 g, 0.041 mmol, Bachem I-1040) in dry formic acid (0.15 ml, treated by 3 Å molecular sieves) slowly with stirring over a period of 7 minutes under an argon atmosphere at 0° C. The mixture was stirred for two hours at room temperature and was then quenched into ether (50 ml). A precipitate was formed and the precipitate was further washed by ether. After filtering off the solution, the mixture was purified by reverse phase chromatography (C18 silica gel, 100% H2O to 100% MeOH) to afford 0.010 g of impure compound as an off-white solid. The solid was crystallized from MeOH to afford 0.0085 g of Ac-Lys-Nε-Formyl-AMC as a white solid (Rf: 0.10, 50% MeOH/CH2Cl2, 55% yield), C19H23N3O5, FW: 373.40. The NMR spectrum was consistent with the structure depicted as Compound 3.
The compound, N—(Nα-acetyl-L-Lysine(Nε-myristoyl))-AMC, Ac-Lys(Myr.)-AMC is depicted as Compound 4 and was prepared as follows. Myristoyl chloride (0.024 g, 0.010 mmol) was added to a suspension of Ac-Lys-AMC (0.022 g, 0.065 mmol) in DMF (1.0 ml) and pyridine (0.2 ml) slowly with stirring over a period of 5 minutes under argon atmosphere at 0° C. The mixture was stirred overnight at room temperature. After all volatility was evaporated under vacuum, the residue was purified by flash chromatography (silica gel, from 1% methanol in methylene chloride up to 20% methylene chloride) to afford 0.016 g of pure compound as a white solid. (Rf: 0.48, 10% MeOH/CH2Cl2, 55% yield), C44H50N6O13, FW: 555.75. The NMR spectrum was consistent with the structure depicted as Compound 4.
The compound, N—(Nα-acetyl-L-Lysine(N-methyl succinyl))-AMC (Ac-Lys(Methyl Succ.)-AMC) is depicted as Compound 5 and was prepared as follows. To a suspension of Ac-AMC-Succinyl-Lys (0.018 g, 0.040 mmol) in ether (0.3 ml) was added freshly made diazomethane (2 ml) under an argon atmosphere at 0° C. The mixture was stirred for two hours at room temperature. All volatility was evaporated and diazomethane (2 ml) was added again. The mixture was stirred another one hour at room temperature. After all volatility was evaporated, the residue was purified by flash chromatography (MeOH in methylene chloride from 5% to 20%) to give Ac-Lys(Methyl Succ.)-AMC (0.015 g, 82% yield) as a white solid (Rf: 0.31, 20% MeOH/CH2Cl2), C23H29N3O7, FW: 459.49. The NMR spectrum was consistent with the structure depicted as Compound 5.
As noted in the Background of the Invention section above, the protease trypsin catalyzes the hydrolytic cleavage of amide bonds on the carboxyl side of unmodified lysine residues. Hydrolytic cleavage of lysyl amide bonds with AMC or rhodamine 110 (dye components of Compounds 1 and 2, respectively) releases the free amino forms of the dyes. This elicits an upward shift of the dye's fluorescence emission peak wavelength (bathochromic shift), for example to 460 nm for AMC or 530 nm for rhodamine 110. If succinylation of the ε-amino function of the lysine moieties in compounds such as 1 and 2 renders the amide bond between the carbonyl of lysine and the amino of dye groups such as AMC or rhodamine resistant to trypsin cleavage then, upon desuccinylation, the lysine/dye amide bond would become cleavable by trypsin. Note that removal of a single succinyl group from 2, followed by cleavage of the desuccinylated lysine would yield a compound with a single free amino function, Ac-K(Succ.)-R110. Monoamides of rhodamine 110 also have increased fluorescence emission at 530 nm relative to 2, although they are less fluorescent than rhodamine 110 itself (Liu et al., 1999). Thus, monitoring the fluorescence at the peak wavelength of the amino form of the dye would allow the desuccinylation reaction to be quantified. A schematic for such an assay is depicted for Compound 1 and SIRT5 in
As demonstrated above for Compound 1, succinylation of the ε-amino function of lysine confers complete resistance to the trypsin cleavage and release of the free dye group, which occurs in the otherwise identical, but non-succinylated Compound 6 (
As seen in
SIRT5 initial rate desuccinylation kinetics were determined as a function of the concentration of Ac-Lys(Succ.)-AMC and were compared in this regard to the equivalent single-lysine acetylated substrate, Ac-Lys(ε-acetyl)-AMC (
SIRT5 kinetic parameters were also obtained for desuccinylation of a constant concentration of Ac-Lys(Succ.)-AMC (0.5 mM) as a function of the concentration of the cosubstrate NAD+ (
a Data from present work, calculated from Km and Vmax values of FIGS. 7 and 8.
b Data from Du et al., 2009.
c Data from Borra et at., 2004.
A particularly important application of the present invention lies in the screening for and characterization of modulators (inhibitors or activators) of SIRT5 activity. The substrates provided may be used in homogenous assays. That is, the assays may be performed by a simple process of successive solution addition and mixing steps in a single vessel, for example the well of a microplate. As such, the assay may be easily adapted to automated liquid handling equipment and low-volume vessels (e.g. 96, 384 & 1536 well microplates) used, for example, in high-throughput screening of chemical libraries for modulators. High SIRT5 assay sensitivity is provided by the combination of the enzyme kinetic characteristics of the fluorophore-labeled succinylated-lysine substrates (
Since desuccinylation activity had not previously been attributed to any sirtuin (class III HDACs, i.e. NAD+-dependent lysine deacetylases) or to any of the other, hydrolytic lysine deacetylases (class I, II and IV HDACs), it was investigated whether such activity was unique to SIRT5 and whether a substrate such as Compound 1 might form the basis of a SIRT5-specific assay. The Ac-Lys(Succ.)-AMC substrate was tested for activity with recombinant preparations of human HDACs 1-11, SIRTs 1-4, 6 and 7, a complex of HDAC3 with a fragment of the activating protein NCOR1 and with HeLa nuclear extract, a rich source of active HDACs in their native multiprotein complexes. No other sirtuin showed any activity with Ac-Lys(Succ.)-AMC (50 μM Ac-Lys(Succ.)-AMC, 500 μM NAD+; Table 2). Extremely low, but detectable activities (Table 2;
aActivities determined with 50 μM Ac-Lys(Succ.)-AMC (HDACs and SIRTs) with 500 μM NAD+ added for SIRTs.
bActivities determined with 50 μM Ac-Lys(Ac.)-AMC (HDACs and SIRTs) with 500 μM NAD+ added for SIRTs.
cActivities determined with 50 μM of indicated peptide substrates, single-letter amino acid code (HDACs and SIRTs) with 500 μM NAD+ added for SIRTs. Substrate for the class IIa HDACs (4 ,5, 7, 9) has trifluoroacetyl (TFAc) rather than acetyl function on the ε-amino group of lysine (Bradner, J.E. et at. NatureChem. Biol. 6, 238-243 (2010)). The substrate Ac-Lys(Ac))2-R110 (Enzo Life Science Cat. # BML-K1572, a component of Fluor de Lys-Green HDAC Assay Kit, Cat. #BML-AK530) is an analog of 2, but bears acetyl rather than succinyl functions.
The data of Table 2 and
An assay employing Ac-Lys(Ac.)-AMC to measure the HDAC and sirtuin deacetylase activity of intact cultured cells has been described (Howitz, K. T. et al. Nature 425, 191-196 (2003); Product Manual of Enzo Life Sciences Cat. #BML-AK-503, “HDAC Fluorimetric Cellular Activity Assay Kit”, Appendix F). Ac-Lys(Ac)-AMC is added to the culture medium, enters the cells and is deacetylated by HDACs and sirtuins in their native intracellular context. Measurement of the amount of Ac-Lys-AMC produced by intracellular deacetylation is then accomplished by detergent lysis of the cells and release of the AMC fluorophore by trypsin. We therefore investigated whether Ac-Lys(Succ.)-AMC could be used to measure intracellular desuccinylation activity, in a similar fashion, with cultured HeLa cells. However, as can be seen from
Aside from the far more limited range of enzymes capable of desuccinylating Ac-Lys(Succ.)-AMC, as opposed to deacetylating Ac-Lys(Ac.)-AMC (Table 2), another factor may be contributing to the lack of an intracellular desuccinylation signal (
In order to circumvent the problems likely imposed by these membrane barriers, whole HeLa cell lysates were prepared and tested for Ac-Lys(Succ.)-AMC desuccinylating activity (
The results of the cell extract assays (
The cell extract experiments of
It was possible with the HeLa lysate system to measure apparent SIRT5 Ac-Lys(Succ.)-AMC desuccinylating activity (
Another example of a fluorogenic substrate for assay of SIRT5 desuccinylase activity is Compound 2 ((Ac-Lys(Succ.))2-R110). The SIRT5 and NAD+-dependent increase in fluorescence was determined for (Ac-Lys(Succ.))2-R110 in comparison to that for deacetylase substrate (Ac-Lys(Ac.))2-R110 (Fluor de Lys®-Green, Enzo Life Sciences Cat. # KI-572) and the data are shown in
As was the case for the Ac-Lys(Succ.)-AMC (
Various HDAC enzymes, including SIRT1, 3, 6 and 7, were tested for activity with Compounds 4 (Ac-Lys(Myr.)-AMC) and 5 (Ac-Lys(Methyl Succ.)-AMC) to determine the lysyl-Nε de-myristoyl (Compound 4) and de-methylsuccinyl (Compound 5) activity of those enzymes. Results are shown in Table 3. As shown therein, some of those enzymes had activity with those reagents, although the activity was much lower than the activity with Ac-Lys(Acetyl)-AMC.
aActivities determined with 50 μM Ac-Lys(Succ.)-AMC (HDACs and SIRTs) with 500 μM NAD+ added for SIRTs.
bActivities determined with 50 μM Ac-Lys(Ac.)-AMC (HDACs and SIRTs) with 500 μM NAD+ added for SIRTs.
Materials and Methods
Enzymes and Protein Extracts.
Enzyme and extract catalog products obtained from ENZO Life Sciences included: HDAC1 (Cat. # BML-SE456), HDAC2 (Cat. # BML-SE500), HDAC3 (Cat. # BML-SE507), HDAC3/NCOR1 Complex (Cat. # BML-SE515), HDAC6 (Cat. #BML-SE508), HDAC8 (Cat. # BML-SE145), HDAC10 (Cat. # BML-SE559), HDAC11 (Cat. #BML-SE560), SIRT1 (Cat. # BML-SE239), SIRT2 (Cat. # BML-SE251), SIRT3 (Cat. # BML-SE270), SIRT5 (Cat. # BML-SE555), HeLa Nuclear Extract (Cat. # BML-KI140), Trypsin (“Fluor de Lys Developer”, 80 mg/ml bovine trypsin in 1 mM HCl, Cat. # BML-KI105 or “Fluor de Lys Developer II”, 80 mg/ml bovine trypsin in 1 mM HCl, Cat. # BML-KI176). Enzymes produced internally at Enzo Life Sciences International, Plymouth Meeting, Pa. included: HDAC4 (human recombinant, residues 626-824 of GenBank accession # NP_006028 with an N-terminal His-tag (MGSSHHHHHHSSGLVPRGSHMAS, one-letter code), expressed in E. coli), HDAC5 (human recombinant, residues 657-1123 of GenBank accession # NP_001015053 with an N-terminal His-tag (MGSSHHHHHHSSGLVPRGSHMAS, one-letter code), expressed in E. coli), HDAC7 (human recombinant, residues 483-903 of GenBank accession # NP_056216 with an N-terminal His-tag (MGSSHHHHHHSSGLVPRGSHMAS, one-letter code), expressed in E. coli), HDAC9 (human recombinant, residues 644-1066 of GenBank accession # NP_848510 with an N-terminal His-tag (MGSSHHHHHHSSGLVPRGSHMAS, one-letter code), expressed in E. coli). Enzymes obtained from BPS Bioscience, San Diego, Calif. included: human recombinants SIRT4 (Cat. #50015), SIRT6 (Cat. #50017), SIRT7 (Cat. #50018). HeLa whole cell extract was obtained from HeLa S3 cells (American Type Culture Collection) grown in a medium of MEM/10% fetal bovine serum (FBS) as follows: 1) 9×106 cells were suspended by trypsinization, followed by a phosphate buffered saline (PBS) rinse and addition of MEM/10% FBS (1.5 mL) to eliminate trypsin before transfer to a 15 mL conical tube; 2) cells were sedimented by a low speed centrifugation, gently resuspended in PBS and sedimented again and supernatant removed; 3) lysis was induced by resuspension in 0.8 mL 50 mM Tris/HCl, pH 8.0 with the non-denaturing detergent NP-40 (0.5%), placement on ice and brief vortexing every 5 min. for 30 min.; 4) 100 μl of a concentrated salt solution in the same buffer was added in order to bring the final buffer composition to 50 mM Tris/Cl, pH 8.0, 137 mM NaCl, 2.7 mM KCl, 1 mM MgCl2, 0.5% NP-40; 5) particulate matter was cleared by centrifugation and the cleared lysate supernatant transferred to a 1.5 mL Eppendorf tube and stored on ice until use in activity assays.
Reagents.
Enzyme assay reagents were components from either the “SIRT1 Fluorometric Drug Discovery Kit” from Enzo Life Sciences (ELS) (Cat. # BML-AK555) or the “HDAC Fluorimetric Cellular Activity Assay Kit” (ELS Cat. # BML-AK503) plus: “Fluor de Lys Substrate” (Ac-Lys(Ac.)-AMC; ELS Cat. # BML-KI104), trichostatin A (TSA) (ELS Cat. #BML-GR309-9090), “Fluor de Lys Deacetylated Standard” (Ac-Lys-AMC; ELS Cat. # BML-KI142); “Fluor de Lys-SIRT2 Deacetylase Substrate” (Ac-Gln-Pro-Lys-Lys(Ac)-AMC; ELS Cat. # BML-KI179), “Fluor de Lys-HDAC8 Deacetylase Substrate” (Ac-Arg-His-Lys-Lys(Ac)-AMC; ELS Cat. # BML-KI178), “Fluor de Lys-Green Substrate” ((Ac-Lys(Ac))2-R110; ELS Cat. # BML-KI572); the class IIa HDAC substrate Ac-Leu-Gly-Lys(TFAc)-AMC (Bradner et al., 2010) synthesized at Enzo Life Sciences International, Exeter, UK.
Activity Assays with Enzymes and Protein Extracts.
Assays were performed at 37° C., according to the manufacturer's instructions for the “SIRT1 Fluorometric Drug Discovery Kit” from Enzo Life Sciences (ELS) (Cat. # BML-AK555), with exceptions described as follows. Where indicated in figures and text, SIRT1 enzyme was replaced with another enzyme or extract and the “Fluor de Lys-SIRT1 Substrate” (Ac-Arg-His-Lys-Lys(Ac)-AMC; ELS Cat. # BML-KI-177) was replaced with another acetylated, succinylated or trifluoroacetylated substrate. In assays with non-sirtuin enzymes (class I HDACs 1, 2, 3 and 8; class II enzymes HDACs 4-7, 9 and 10; class IV enzyme HDAC11) NAD+ was omitted and the nicotinamide in the “Developer” (trypsin) solution was replaced with 1 μM TSA. In the HeLa cell extract experiments (
Activity Assays with Intact HeLa Cells.
Assays (
In view of the above, it will be seen that several objectives of the invention are achieved and other advantages attained.
As various changes could be made in the above methods and compositions without departing from the scope of the invention, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description and shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.
All references cited in this specification are hereby incorporated by reference. The discussion of the references herein is intended merely to summarize the assertions made by the authors and no admission is made that any reference constitutes prior art. Applicants reserve the right to challenge the accuracy and pertinence of the cited references.
This application is a divisional of U.S. application Ser. No. 15/464,966; filed Mar. 21, 2017 know U.S. Pat. No. 9,963,734), which is a divisional of U.S. application Ser. No. 12/930,693; filed Jan. 13, 2011 (now U.S. Pat. No. 9,637,773), all of which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety.
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