| Assay Method Information | |
| | Kinase Assays |
| Description: | Kinase assays are commonly used for determining the ability of a small molecule to inhibit enzyme activity. By measuring the degree of phosphorylation of a substrate at varying concentrations of inhibitor, the concentration of inhibitor resulting in 50% enzymatic activity (IC50) can be obtained. The IC50 is defined as the inflection point of the sigmoidal graph obtained when plotting substrate phosphorylation vs. inhibitor concentration. Experiments were conducted during development of embodiments herein using radiolabeled ATP to detect substrate phosphorylation in the presence of amlexanox analogs to determine the potency (IC50) of said analogs.TBK1 (residues 1-657) and IKKε (residues 1-655) were purified from insect cells to ≥90% purity by coomassie staining. Reactions containing 50 nM TBK1 or IKKε, 7 μM myelin basic protein (MBP), and inhibitor in reaction buffer (50 mM HEPES pH 7.5, 10 mM NaCl, 10 mM MgCl2, 1 mM DTT) were initiated with 5 μM ATP spiked with [γ-32P]-ATP and allowed to proceed for 30 minutes at room temperature. Reactions were quenched with SDS gel loading dye, run on 4-15% SDS-PAGE gels, and imaged on phosphorimaging screens. Band intensities corresponding to phosphorylated MBP were quantified with ImageQuant and the data analyzed in Prism 6. Dose-response assay band intensities were normalized and fit to a sigmoidal dose-response equation with the Hill slope fixed at −1 and the top constrained to 100. |
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