Assay Method Information

Assay Name:  Enzymatic Inhibition Assay
Description:  11-point dosing series were made for each compound by serially diluting 1:3 or 1:4 in DMSO, with point 12 being a DMSO control. From the serial dilution plates, sample was transferred to a 384 wells assay plate (#781280, Greiner, Monroe, N.C.) using Labcyte Echo (Sunnyvale, Calif.), or Biosero ATS (San Diego, Calif.). The compounds were tested in duplicate. Column 12 was used for positive controls, and column 24 contained negative controls with no enzyme added. A compound from our internal collection, with inhibitory activity for JAK isoforms, was used as a reference compound. The final concentration of DMSO was ≤0.25% in a 20 μL reaction. Assay conditions for each of the proteins are summarized in Table 3. The enzyme reaction was initiated by the addition of 10 μL of 2× enzyme and ATP mixture to 10 μL of 2× substrate solution prepared in reaction buffer (50 mM MOPS pH 7.5, 10 mM MgCl2, 1 mM EDTA, 2 mM DTT, 0.002% Tween-20). The Tyk2 enzyme was pre-incubated with 2 mM ATP for 30 min prior to the reaction initiation. Immediately after the addition of the enzyme to the reaction mixture, the plate was centrifuged at 1000 rpm for 1 minute and incubated at 25° C. for 45 minutes for JAK 3 and 90 minutes for JAK1, JAK2 and Tyk2. The reaction was quenched by the addition of 20 μL of 0.5% TFA containing 0.15 μM of internal standard peptide using Multidrop Combi reagent dispenser (Thermo Scientific, Waltham, Mass.). Several wells in column 24 were typically used for the product standard curve. After the quench, the assay plate was centrifuged at 3000 rpm for 3 minutes and sealed with pierceable aluminum foil (Cat #06644-001, Agilent) using a PlateLoc (Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, Calif.). The plates then were transferred on to the RapidFire for the MS analysis. Compound inhibition was assessed by a decrease of the phosphorylated product levels in sample wells compared to the non-inhibited enzyme reaction. The assay conditions for the above assays are shown in Table 3 and the results of Ex. 1-209 as tested in these assays are shown in Table 4.TABLE 3Assay conditions for JAK family enzyme assays* [p], [ATP], [Substrate], [IS],Enzyme nM μM μM nMJAK1-JH1JH2 8.0 12.5 200 100JAK2-JH1JH2 7.0 or 3.6 30 40 100JAK3-JH1JH2 2.0 150 40 100Tyk2-JH1JH2   25 or 14.7 50 200 100*Reaction buffer: 50 mM MOPS, pH 7.5 10 mM MgCl2, 1 mM EDTA, 2 mM DTT, 0.002% Tween-20; IS stands for internal standard peptide; p stands for phospho-peptide (product); Substrate stands for peptide.
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