Establishment of a suite of assays that support the discovery of proteasome stimulators.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The proteasome catalyzes the degradation of many mis-folded proteins, which are otherwise cytotoxic. There is interest in the discovery of proteasome agonists, but previous efforts to do so have been disappointing.

Methods

The cleavage of small fluorogenic peptides is used routinely as an assay to screen for proteasome modulators. We have developed follow-on assays that employ more physiologically relevant substrates.

Results

To demonstrate the efficacy of this workflow, the NIH Clinical Collection (NCC) was screened. While many compounds stimulated proteasome-mediated proteolysis of the pro-fluorogenic peptide substrates, most failed to evince activity in assays with larger peptide or protein substrates. We also show that two molecules claimed previously t

SUBMITTER: Trader DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5366797 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature