A fluorescent assay suitable for inhibitor screening and vanin tissue quantification |
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Authors: | Benfang H Ruan Derek C Cole Amira Quazi Jill F Wright Joseph R Stock Ann Aulabaugh Lori J Fitz Margaret L Fleming |
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Institution: | a Inflammation and Immunology, Pfizer Biotherapeutics R&D, Cambridge, MA 02140, USA b Chemical Sciences, Pfizer, Pearl River, NY 10965, USA c Screening Sciences, Pfizer, Pearl River, NY 10965, USA |
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Abstract: | Vanin-1 is a pantetheinase that catalyzes the hydrolysis of pantetheine to produce pantothenic acid (vitamin B5) and cysteamine. Reported here is a highly sensitive fluorescent assay using a novel fluorescently labeled pantothenate derivative. The assay has been used for characterization of a soluble version of human vanin-1 recombinant protein, identification and characterization of hits from high-throughput screening (HTS), and quantification of vanin pantothenase activity in cell lines and tissues. Under optimized assay conditions, we quantified vanin pantothenase activity in tissue lysate and found low activity in lung and liver but high activity in kidney. We demonstrated that the purified recombinant vanin-1 consisting of the extracellular portion without the glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) linker was highly active with an apparent Km of 28 μM for pantothenate-7-amino-4-methylcoumarin (pantothenate-AMC), which was converted to pantothenic acid and AMC based on liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) analysis. The assay also performed well in a 384-well microplate format under initial rate conditions (10% conversion) with a signal-to-background ratio (S/B) of 7 and a Z factor of 0.75. Preliminary screening of a library of 1280 pharmaceutically active compounds identified inhibitors with novel chemical scaffolds. This assay will be a powerful tool for target validation and drug lead identification and characterization. |
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Keywords: | Vanin-1 Fluorescent assay Inflammatory disease HTS assay Lead identification Tissue quantification Km Pantetheinase activity |
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