基于大环分子葫芦脲的鸟氨酸脱羧酶实时无标记活性分析方法的改进与应用

鸟氨酸脱羧酶(Ornithine decarboxylase,ODC)是多胺生物合成途径中的关键酶,其主要功能是催化鸟氨酸脱羧生成腐胺.在多种疾病和肿瘤细胞中,ODC的表达水平和催化活性都高于正常细胞,因此抑制ODC的活性是相关疾病预防和治疗的一个潜在途径.ODC抑制剂的发现和检验依赖于对其催化反应进程的监测,常采用的...

Optimization of a cucurbit[6]uril-based real-time label-free method for analyzing the activity of ornithine decarboxylase

Ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) is a key enzyme in the biosynthetic pathway of polyamines and catalyzes the decarboxylation of ornithine to produce putrescine. Inhibition of ODC activity is a potential approach for the prevention and treatment of many diseases including cancer, as the expression levels and the activities of ODC in many abnormal cells and tumor cells are generally higher than those of normal cells. The discovery and evaluation of ODC inhibitors rely on the monitoring of the reaction processes catalyzed by ODC. There are several commonly used methods for analyzing the activity of ODC, such as measuring the yield of putrescine by high performance liquid chromatography, or quantifying the yield of isotope labelled carbon dioxide. However, the cumbersome operation and cost of these assays, as well as the difficulty to achieve high-throughput and real-time detection, hampered their applications. In this work, we optimized a real-time label-free method for analyzing the activity of ODC based on the macromolecule cucurbit[6]uril (CB6) and a fluorescent dye, DSMI (trans-4-[4-(dimethylamino) styryl]-1-methylpyridinium iodide). Finally, the optimized method was used to determine the activities of different ODC inhibitors with different inhibition?mechanisms.