Discovery of enzyme modulators via high-throughput time-resolved FRET in living cells

Simon J. Gruber; Razvan L. Cornea; Ji Li; Kurt C. Peterson; Tory M. Schaaf; Gregory D. Gillispie; Russell Dahl; Krisztina M. Zsebo; Seth L. Robia; David D. Thomas

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Discovery of enzyme modulators via high-throughput time-resolved FRET in living cells

Simon J. Gruber, Razvan L. Cornea, Ji Li, Kurt C. Peterson, Tory M. Schaaf, Gregory D. Gillispie, Russell Dahl, Krisztina M. Zsebo, Seth L. Robia, David D. Thomas

Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics (TMED)

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Abstract

We have used a "two-color" SERCA (sarco/endoplasmic reticulum calcium ATPase) biosensor and a unique high-throughput fluorescence lifetime plate reader (FLT-PR) to develop a high-precision live-cell assay designed to screen for small molecules that perturb SERCA structure. A SERCA construct, in which red fluorescent protein (RFP) was fused to the N terminus and green fluorescent protein (GFP) to an interior loop, was stably expressed in an HEK cell line that grows in monolayer or suspension. Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) from GFP to RFP was measured in the FLT-PR, which increases precision 30-fold over intensity-based plate readers without sacrificing throughput. FRET was highly sensitive to known SERCA modulators. We screened a small chemical library and identified 10 compounds that significantly affected two-color SERCA FLT. Three of these compounds reproducibly lowered FRET and inhibited SERCA in a dose-dependent manner. This assay is ready for large-scale HTS campaigns and is adaptable to many other targets.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	215-222
Number of pages	8
Journal	Journal of Biomolecular Screening
Volume	19
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1087057113510740
State	Published - Feb 2014

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The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by grants to D.D.T. (NIH GM27906, AR57220, AG42996, and MDA218102) and R.L.C. (NIH HL92097). S.J.G. was supported by a predoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association (Midwest Affiliate 13PRE13230005).

Keywords

FRET
HEK
LOPAC
SERCA2a
enzyme activation
screening

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Discovery of enzyme modulators via high-throughput time-resolved FRET in living cells

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