| Assay Method Information | |
| | Skeletal Myofibril ATPase Assay |
| Description: | BSA, ATP, NADH, PEP, and DTT solutions were thawed at room temperature, then transferred to ice. Pellet-frozen myofibrils (approximately twice the required volume) were transferred into a sufficiently large tube and capped. Myofibrils were thawed by rolling in a water bath for approximately 15 min at room temperature and cooled on ice. Buffers A and B were prepared by adjusting volumes as necessary for required number of wells and stored on ice. 0.5 μL of the compounds to be assayed were added into wells of a 384-well plate. Buffers A and B were mixed by inversion immediately prior to use, then 25 μL of each was dispensed using a Multidrop dispenser (Buffer A first, then Buffer B). The absorbance within the wells was measured at 340 nm, using a kinetic protocol in which the wells are read every 1.5-2 min for 1 h. The reaction rate was qualitatively assessed by subtracting the minimum absorbance value from the maximum value for each well, using either the SoftMax Pro plate reader software or a spreadsheet program such as Excel. Using GraphPad Prism 8.0, the data was normalized, with 100% activity defined as the absorbance change in the 1% DMSO vehicle wells and 0% assigned to no change in absorbance over the course of the experiment. The normalized data were fit to a variable-slope four-parameter logistic model, constraining the bottom to be 0 or greater. |
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