Classifications

• • G—PHYSICS
  • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
  • G01N—INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
  • G01N33/00—Investigating or analysing materials by specific methods not covered by groups G01N1/00 - G01N31/00
  • G01N33/48—Biological material, e.g. blood, urine; Haemocytometers
  • G01N33/50—Chemical analysis of biological material, e.g. blood, urine; Testing involving biospecific ligand binding methods; Immunological testing
  • G01N33/53—Immunoassay; Biospecific binding assay; Materials therefor
  • G01N33/536—Immunoassay; Biospecific binding assay; Materials therefor with immune complex formed in liquid phase
  • G01N33/542—Immunoassay; Biospecific binding assay; Materials therefor with immune complex formed in liquid phase with steric inhibition or signal modification, e.g. fluorescent quenching
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
  • G01N—INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
  • G01N2500/00—Screening for compounds of potential therapeutic value
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
  • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10S436/00—Chemistry: analytical and immunological testing
  • Y10S436/805—Optical property
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
  • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
  • Y10T436/00—Chemistry: analytical and immunological testing
  • Y10T436/12—Condition responsive control
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
  • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
  • Y10T436/00—Chemistry: analytical and immunological testing
  • Y10T436/13—Tracers or tags

Definitions

• HTS high throughput screening
• UHTS ultra-high throughput screening
• Denaturation of proteins is accompanied by the progressive loss of their tertiary/quartenary structure and ultimately biological activity.
• Denaturation can be accomplished by a number of physical and chemical methods that involve changes in temperature, pH, and/or ionic strength, use of chaotropic agents, etc. It can be followed by methods sufficiently sensitive to monitor conformational changes in a protein. Because it is a simple and widely applicable experimental method, thermal denaturation has been used for a variety of purposes, including purifying proteins by selective denaturation of impurities and to study protein structure, folding, and stability.
• TDC Thermal denaturation curves
• DSC differential scanning calorimetry
• the DSC curves reflect the stability of many different structural domains, some sensitive to the binding of ligands and some not sensitive at all. Furthermore, denaturation may be initiated at many locations within the protein structure. Each of these processes has its own activation energy, which makes it the dominant process only within a narrow temperature range. As a consequence, depending on the scanning rate, the stability of a given domain may or may not be evident in the DSC curve. Furthermore, differential scanning calorimetry may see two or more protein denaturation steps where one would expect only a single transition.
• the present invention provides methods for identifying compounds that bind to target species (e.g., polypeptides including proteins, and polynucleotides including DNA and RNA). These methods involve the use of isothermal denaturation, preferably in combination with fluoresence detection methods. Significantly, the methods of the present invention involve automated methods suitable for HTS and UHTS. Ideally, the methods of the present invention are envisioned to be scalable to evaluate 10,000-60,000 compounds or more in a 24 hour period.
• target species e.g., polypeptides including proteins, and polynucleotides including DNA and RNA.
• the present invention couples fluorescence techniques with denaturation by isothermal methods to determine alteration of target (e.g., protein) stability by a bound ligand.
• target e.g., protein
• the denaturation and stabilization or destabilization of target species (e.g., protein targets) by ligands against isothermal denaturation is quantified by changes in fluorescence intensity.
• the present invention provides a method for identifying a test compound that binds to a target species.
• the method includes: incubating at least one test mixture (preferably, a plurality of test mixtures for high throughput screening) under isothermal denaturing conditions, each test mixture comprising at least one test compound (preferably, at least two test compounds and more preferably, twp to ten test compounds), and at least one target species (preferably, only one target species is in any one test mixture), wherein the isothermal denaturing conditions are effective to cause at least a portion of the target species to denature (e.g., unfold) to a measurable extent; detecting a denaturation signal of each target species in the presence of the at least one test compound by a change in the diffusion properties of the target molecule using fluorescence correlation spectroscopy; and comparing the denaturation signal of each target species in the presence of at least one test compound with a denaturation signal of the same target species in the absence of the at least one test compound under the same isothermal
• the target species can be a polypeptide (e.g., protein) or a polynucleotide (e.g., DNA or RNA).
• the target species is a protein.
• the compound can bind to the target species either specifically (e.g., at a specific site or in a specific manner) or unspecifically.
• the binding can involve a variety of mechanisms, including covalent bonding, ionic bonding, hydrogen bonding, ydrophobic bonding (involving van der Waals forces), for example, or combinations thereof.
• Isothermal denaturing conditions refers to conditions effective to denature a target molecule at a fixed temperature. It can also involve defined conditions with respect to pH, ionic strength, cation concentration, etc., which are generally held constant for evaluation of various compounds for a given target.
• Denaturation signal refers to the signal produced by the target species upon being denatured.
• T m refers to the midpoint of the melting transition of the target as determined by differential scanning calorimetry.
• Reporter molecule refers to a separately added molecule such as a fluorescent dye or a covalently bonded reporter group attached to the target.
• Figure 8 Autocorrelation curves of HIV-1 Protease +/- PNU-A at 48°C for 20 minutes (8A) and 24 minutes (8B).
• the methodology can be used to screen for ligands to a wide variety of molecules, particularly proteins, including those with unknown function.
• the methods of the present invention eliminate the necessity of ramping temperatures up and down and should allow for much faster assay development and higher throughput in an HTS or UHTS automated environment.
• the technology should be easily expandable to looking for compounds that bind to RNA, DNA, ⁇ -acidic glycoprotein, and serum albumin, for example.
• Isothermal denaturation offers an attractive alternative method for monitoring denaturation (e.g., unfolding of a target species) and for the identification of binding ligands. It is amenable to HTS and UHTS. Furthermore, the denaturation process is easily controllable, reproducible, and independent of the heating rate.
• the choice of temperature used in isothermal denaturation can be determined by measuring the rate of denaturation of the target species at a series of temperatures (e.g., within a range of about 45°C to about 75°C). These measurements may be made, for example, using a fluorescent reporter molecule that binds to and reports conformational changes associated with the unfolding of the target molecule.
• a preliminary DSC scan is run to determine T m (midpoint temperature) of the target species in appropriate buffers that enhance the stability of the target over a long period of time as would be known to one skilled in the art.
• all components are maintained at one given temperature (preferably ⁇ about 0.2°C) which is chosen to produce a slow, easily monitored denaturation of the target protein. If the temperature of isothermal denaturation is too low, the kinetics are too slow. Generally, it is desirable to have a detectable amount of denaturing (e.g., unfolding) occur within about 60 minutes or less. If the temperature is too high, the kinetics are so fast that the test compound would not be able to stabilize the denatured target species resulting, for example, in too great an extent of unfolding. Too much unfolding can cause aggregation that could result in precipitation of the target. Furthermore, at too high a temperature, the test compound may not bind at all.
• one given temperature preferably ⁇ about 0.2°C
• the desired temperature for isothermal denaturing is equal to the T m value ⁇ about 10°C of the target species as determined by DSC. More preferably, this temperature is equal to or up to about 10°C less than the T m value of the target species.
• the target species preferably together with a suitable reporter molecule able to monitor its denaturation, is incubated in the presence and absence of the test compound.
• concentration of the target species and that of the reporter molecule are of comparable magnitude (preferably, no greater than about 1 ⁇ M), but may require the reporter molecule to be in excess relative to the target molecule, whereas the concentration of the test compound is in at least a 10-fold excess.
• the percent inhibition cutoff for a "hit" can be set prior to assay implementation, or determined statistically during or after all screening has been performed.
• Fluorescence techniques are rapidly becoming the detection methods of choice, particularly for HTS and UHTS. Thus, fluorescence molecules are used as the markers of choice. Coupling fluorescence techniques with denaturation by isothermal methods is attractive because in isothermal denaturation the quantum yield of an extrinsically added reporter molecule is dependent only on changes in protein folding and not on temperature effects. Further, any change in the fluorescence quantum yield measures binding of the reporter molecule to different denatured forms of the target species. Thus, alteration of target stability by a bound ligand should be easily detectable.
• target species denaturation and stabilization or destabilization by ligands against isothermal denaturation is quantified by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy.
• isothermal denaturation can be used to determine if known competitive inhibitors/ligands could bind to target species.
• the present invention demonstrates the utility of fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) to monitor denaturation of targets isothermally.
• FCS fluorescence correlation spectroscopy
• Such instruments are commercially available from ISS, Inc., Urbana, Illinois and Zeiss Inc., Jena, Germany.
• ISS, Inc. Urbana, Illinois and Zeiss Inc., Jena, Germany.
• a screening instrument can be built or modified to perform high throughput screening of compounds that stabilze a target under isothermal conditions.
• this new technology has significant potential for adaptation to high- and ultrahigh-throughput screening in drug discovery.
• Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy is a technique that directly measures the spontaneous fluorescence fluctuation of systems in thermodynamic equilibrium. It is an ultrasensitive technique operating at the level of single fluorescent molecules diffusing in and out of the confocal volume created by a focused laser beam. That is, in FCS, a sharply focused laser beam illuminates a femtoliter volume. This volume is so small that it typically hosts only one particle out of the many under analysis at a given moment in time. The single molecules diffusing through the illuminated volume give rise to bursts of fluorescence light quanta. Each individual burst, resulting from a single molecule, can be registered.
• FCS Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy
• the photons are recorded in a time resolved manner by a highly sensitive single- photon detection device. All signals resulting from the diffusion of a series of molecules through the confocal volume are recorded. The quanta belonging to particular fluorescing molecules are identified using autocorrelation software. The number of molecules in the illuminated volume, as well as their characteristic translational diffusion times, can be determined.
• the spontaneous fluorescence fluctuating quantity is the number of observed molecules in a defined unit volume ( Figure 1), and the diffusion coefficient and the kinetic coefficients of the system are two quantities that are generally measured.
• FCS detects the time-dependent spontaneous intensity fluctuations in the fluorescence signal which may derive from Brownian motion, flow, and chemical reactions, such as binding.
• G( ⁇ ) ⁇ F( ⁇ ) ⁇ F(t+ ⁇ )> ⁇ / ⁇ F> for the fluctuating signal reveals information about diffusion coefficients, number of molecules, etc., and the G( ⁇ ) curves vary dependent upon molecular diffusion weights.
• ⁇ represents the correlation time constant
• ⁇ F> the average total fluorescence
• F( ⁇ ) and F(t+ ⁇ ) are the fluorescence values measured during the correlation time-constant and at time t plus the correlation time-constant.
• G( ⁇ ) extrapolated to zero time i.e., the G(0) value
• the G(0) value represents the number of molecules in the experimental volume. See, for example, Kam et al., Rev. Sci. Instrum.. 46, 269-277 (1975); and Rauer et al, Biophys. Chem.. 3-12 (1996).
• division of the constant value 0.076 by the G(0) value yields the number of molecules.
• This constant derives from the volume swept out by the two-photon laser beam defined by, for example, a Gaussian-Lorentzian equation (see the Data Analyses section below) and was experimentally determined.
• FCS can measure single molecules and the kinetics of the time scale may extend from hundreds of nanoseconds to seconds, with low nanomolar concentrations capable of being detected in an observed volume of 0.1 femtoliter (fL) to 1.0 fL.
• FCS can be used to measure thermal denaturation of target species (e.g., proteins) and determine if known competitive inhibitors/ligands could stabilize these molecules. The results are comparable to those obtained by other methods.
• target species e.g., proteins
• the agreement of the denaturation kinetics from three different detection methods confirms that the same unfolding processes are being measured using the methods of the present invention. Since it is relatively easy to label covalently the target molecule without any subsequent concern about how to measure the fluorescence, as opposed to, for example, polarization, intensity, lifetime, etc., an FCS instrument with micro-titer plate capability offers a powerful method for quickly screening large chemical libraries to identify potential drug-leads. Alternatively, one skilled in the art can use the same fluorescent dyes in the same manner as described above for isothermal denaturation.
• FCS In order to be able to work at low target concentrations with isothermal denaturation using FCS, one typically and preferably, uses no greater than about 50 nM of the reporter molecule. With isothermal denaturation by FCS it is desirable when using extrinsic but not covalent reporter molecules, that the fluorescence of the extrinsically added dyes bound to denatured target should be at least 2-fold greater than to native target. For proteins, this is typically accompanied by the exposure of the hydrophobic regions of the protein.
• the reporter molecules should also preferably have low affinity for the native target.
• the fluorescence of the native target/reporter molecule complex is linear over a wide concentration range or, preferably, does not bind to the native target at all so that it does not become a ligand itself.
• compound libraries generally contain numerous compounds that absorb and/or fluoresce between about 300 nanometers (run) and about 400 nm, the reporter molecule should preferably have excitation and emission in the visible region where few compounds interfere, e.g., excitation at about 488 nm and emission at about 515 nm.
• Such reporter molecules are commercially available from sources such as Molecular Probes (Eugene, OR) and fluoresce brightly when bound to hydrophobic regions of the target molecule. These include SYPRO Orange, SYPRO Red, Nano Orange, Nile Red, 1- anilinonaphthalene- 8 -sulfonic acid (1,8-ANS), and dapoxylbutylsulfonamide (DBS) as well as other dapoxyl analogs.
• Nano Orange fluorescence provides an ultra-sensitive dye with a linear fluorescence range for quantification of proteins in solution of about 10 nanograms/milliliter (ng/mL) to about 10 micrograms/milliliter ( ⁇ g/mL) with a very low background fluorescence.
• SYPRO Orange and SYPRO Red are used for gel staining with sensitivity as good as silver staining.
• the basis for the increase in fluorescence of the dyes with protein denaturation is their binding to newly exposed hydrophobic sites.
• 1.8-ANS has been used extensively for many years to monitor the unfolding of proteins; however, its quantum yield when bound to the denatured protein is much lower than those of the dyes discussed above and, thus, would require the use of large quantities of protein and reporter molecule in the assays.
• DBS is a relatively new, solvatochromic dye whose fluorescence emission may shift as much as 100 nm upon changing the environment. Due to its lower excitation and emission wavelengths, however, it is less desirable than Nano Orange, SYPRO Orange, or SYPRO Red for HTS.
• Any fluorescent reporter molecule whose emission intensity increases or decreases when bound to a desired target species can be used for isothermal denaturation.
• the affinity of a fluorescent reporter molecule toward a target species can be determined by measuring the fluorescence of a given concentration of the reporter molecule in the presence of increasing concentrations of the denatured target species and the native target species. Knowing the affinity then allows one to optimize the concentration of the fluorescent reporter molecule relative to the target species.
• target species labeled covalently with a pair of fluorophores one of which quenches the fluorescence of the other. Because unfolding of the target species changes the intermolecular distances between the two fluorophores, the denaturation is accompanied by changes in fluorescence. By labeling the same target species at specific sites, the denaturation at different structural regions can be monitored.
• the experiments can be performed in the presence of a chaotrope, such as urea, guanidine hydrochloride, organic solvents, or any other reagents that promote protein denaturation without unduly interfering with binding of the reporter molecule with the target species.
• a chaotrope such as urea, guanidine hydrochloride, organic solvents, or any other reagents that promote protein denaturation without unduly interfering with binding of the reporter molecule with the target species.
• the methods of the present invention can be carried out in a multi-reservoir sample holder, such as a microtiter plate.
• a multi-reservoir sample holder such as a microtiter plate.
• all components but the target species are added and the multi-reservoir sample holder is held at the appropriate temperature for a period of time. After thermal equilibrium is reached, the sample holder is preferably transferred to a station where the target species is added to all reservoirs, preferably simultaneously.
• the multi-reservoir sample holder is typically sealed prior to addition of any components.
• a microtiter plate can include a covering that is made of a plastic sheeting which seals the plate but is scored in such a way that a microtiter tip easily penetrates it but that it re-closes after tip removal.
• the sample holder After introduction of the target species, the sample holder is either transferred immediately to an appropriate detector for reading the denaturation signal or to an incubator for holding until detection is desired. All steps can be performed either manually or by robot as desired.
• the denaturation of S. aureus FemB and HIV-1 protease were evaluated. The measurement of denaturation was based on a change in the diffusion coefficient of the protein as monitored by FCS.
• the enzyme HIV-1 protease exists as a dimer. These data are by far the most interesting in that the apparent diffusion coefficient increases and then decreases. This observation can be interpreted as first the dimer dissociating into monomers with possibly some concurrent denaturation followed by denaturation and/or aggregation. The calculated diffusion coefficients are what would be expected for a protein of this size that dedimerizes and/or then denatures. More importantly, the concept of stabilizing a denatured protein was demonstrated using the competitive HIV-1 protease inhibitor PNU- 140690, which has the following structure.
• RNA molecules that can be used to demonstrate this approach include: 1) HIV-1 tar 47-86 (Mei et al., Biochemistry. 37,14204-14212 (1998)); 2) RNA aptamer J6fl (Cho et al, Biochemistry.
• Ligands known to bind to these respective RNA molecules are: 1) Neomycin, other aminoglycoside antibiotics, and other compounds (Mei et al., Biochemistry. 37,14204-14212 (1998)); 2) tobramycin ((Cho et al., Biochemistry. 37, 4985- 4992 (1998)); and 3) Kanamycin and other aminoglycides (Wong et al., Chemistrv and Biology. 5, 397-406 (1998)).
• ligands for proteinaceous targets stabilize their structures under isothermal conditions
• these known ligands stabilize their cognate RNA molecules under similar conditions.
• a large collection of compounds can be tested in high-throughput screening to determine whether any might bind to, and stabilize, these nucleic acid structures under isothermal denaturation conditions. These compounds can be tested singly or as combinations of several compounds.
• Oregon GreenTM Iodoacetamide, dapoxyl butylsulfonamide, and fluorescein isothiocyanate were purchased from Molecular Probes, Eugene, OR.
• Tris-HCl, sodium carbonate, dithiothreitol, mono- and disodium phosphate, ⁇ -mercaptoethanol, sodium acetate, glycerol, and sodium chloride were purchased from Sigma- Aldrich, St. Louis, MO.
• Ethylene glycol and acetic acid were obtained from Mallinckrodt Laboratory Chemicals, A Division of Mallinckrodt Baker, Inc., Phillipsburg, NJ.
• Slide-A-LyzerTM (2,000 MWCO) were purchased from Pierce Chemical, Rockford, IL.
• Bio-Gel P-6 Desalting GelTM spin columns were purchased from BioRad Life Science Research, Hercules, CA. Micron microconcentrators (10,000 MWCO, ⁇ 500 ⁇ L) were obtained from Amicon Millipore Corp., Bedford, MA. The composition of the buffers used in these studies were: for S. aureus FemB, 50 mM NaHCO 3 , 1 mM DTT, pH 9.0.
• Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy The fluorescence correlation spectroscopy equipment was built by personnel in the Laboratory of
• Differential Scanning Calorimetry Differential Scanning Calorimetry. Differential scanning calorimetry experiments were performed using an MC-2 ultra-sensitive differential scanning calorimeter from Microcal, Inc., Northampton, MA.
• Baselines were collected for each enzyme with buffer in both the sample and reference cells (cell volume was 1.2 mL) using a scan rate of 1 °C/minute from 25°C to 90°C.
• the DSC was cycled through this procedure twice before collecting data for an enzyme to establish a thermal history. Buffer was then removed from the sample cell and enzyme at approximately 1-2 mg/mL was placed in the cell. DSC data were collected for the enzyme from 25°C to 90°C at a scan rate of 1 °C/minute. The calorimeter was cycled back to 25°C and protein solution was rescanned to 90°C. Reference baselines were subtracted from sample DSC data. All solutions were degassed prior to DSC collections. The DSC Y-axis was calibrated using known electrical heat pulses. Temperature calibration was performed using n-octadecane and n- hexatriacontane standards which melt at 28.2°C and 75.9°C, respectively.
• S. aureus FemB The protein, S. aureus FemB with a molecular size of 50,804 daltons (Ehlert et al, J. BacterioL. 179. 7573-7576 (1997) and Tschierske et al., FEMS Microbiol. Lett.. 153. 261-264 (1997)) was dissolved in 50 mM carbonate buffer, pH 9.0, plus 1 mM dithiothreitol forming a solution of 2.2 mg/mL (43 ⁇ M). FITC (100 mg) was dissolved in 100% dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) at 50 mM and an aliquot diluted to 5 mM in DMSO.
• DMSO dimethylsulfoxide
• the protein was diluted in the same buffer to 20 ⁇ M in two 200 ⁇ L aliquots and 0.8 ⁇ L of 5 mM FITC was added.
• the reactions were allowed to proceed on ice for 60 minutes.
• eight BioGel P-6 columns were equilibrated with the NaHCO 3 /DTT buffer following the manufacturers suggested protocol, spinning at 3000xg for 2 minutes at 4°C.
• a portion of the reaction mixture (100 ⁇ L) was added to four P-6 columns and material was collected.
• the effluent was collected and the process was repeated.
• These second eluants were combined and concentrated in the Amicon concentrator using a filter with a 10K micron size cut-off limit with one buffer wash.
• the retentate was collected and divided into three equal volume aliquots (10.5 ⁇ M). One aliquot was evaluated by HPLC analysis and determined that no free, unreacted FITC remained. This material was used in the FCS studies below.
• HIV-1 Protease was extensively dialyzed against 0.1 M sodium phosphate, 0.05% NaN 3 , pH 6.5, at 5°C, using a Pierce Slide-A-LyzerTM (2,000 MWCO). The protease concentration was approximately 1 mg/mL.
• conjugated protease was 0.2 micron filtered and evaluated for Oregon GreenTM concentration by extinction and for protease concentration by amino acid analysis. Spectrophotometric results determined an Oregon GreenTM concentration of 1.94 ⁇ M. Amino acid analysis established a protease concentration of 18 micrograms/mL which is 0.95 ⁇ M assuming a protease formula weight of 19 kD. Also, the concentration of carboxy-methyl- cysteine (a hydrolysis product of the iodoacetamide conjugated cysteine) was estimated at 1.8 ⁇ M. All of these results are consistent with a nearly complete reaction between the accessible sulfhydryl of HIV-1 Protease and the Oregon GreenTM Iodoacetamide.
• Microfuge tubes containing 1.5 mL buffer were placed in a pre- equilibrated 48°C water bath and the temperature was monitored with a telethermometer. When temperature was attained, protein was added to 100 nM in the appropriate buffer, rapidly mixed, and an aliquot was removed at various time points. For S. aureus FemB, FflV-1 protease, or for HIV-1 protease co- incubated with PNU- 140690 (structure listed above), time points were taken from 0 to 60 minutes.
• This material was diluted to 10 nM in a 2.0 mL teflon chamber already located on the microscope stage containing the same buffer at room temperature. The solution was thoroughly mixed and data were acquired immediately for two minutes. Data were acquired for 2 to 5 minutes at a scan rate of 10 Khz or 20 Khz. These data were then binned using P-Wave software and immediately assessed using N-Fit software. Binning combines the fluorescence measurements from contiguous time-periods. P-Wave and N-fit were software programs employed at the LFD. Data which looked as if an experimental error had occurred were repeated, otherwise the data were compressed for future analysis. The ISS FCS instrument performs similar analyses in a proprietary computational package that comes with the instrument.
• the autocorrelated data were analyzed with a nonlinear least squares (NLLSF) fitting program based on that disclosed in Yamaoka et. al., J. Pharmacobio Dyn., 4, 8-15 (1981).
• NLLSF nonlinear least squares
• the constants 1.487 and 1.142 derive from measuring the volume encompassed by the laser beam for this specific instrument and had been determined experimentally.
• the concentration of FemB was 2.2 mg/mL and the DSC experiment was performed with the unlabeled protein in 50 mM NaHCO 3 , 1 mM DTT, pH 9.0 (Figure 4). This protein exhibited two transition temperatures, one at 39.1 °C and the other at 42.2°C (solid line). FemB also exhibited irreversible denaturation when cooled to 25°C and rescanned (dotted line).
• the HIV protease (1.7 mg/mL) study was performed in an identical manner but using the buffer 0.1 M HO Ac, 0.2 M NaCl, 10%> glycerol (v/v) and 5% ethylene glycol (v/v).
• the protein showed a T m of 45.6°C (Figure 5, solid line).
• Significant noise was observed after the transition because precipitate formed upon unfolding.
• This solution was cooled to 25 °C and upon rescanning, yielded the curve shown by the dotted line, which had no transition at 45 °C. Significant noise throughout the scan was due to precipitate in the cell.
• the time-points shown are for protein incubated at 48°C for 0 and 50 minutes.
• the solid line represents the theoretical fit using the equation defined above.
• the analyses yield the calculated values for the apparent G(0) and diffusion coefficient values.
• Two obvious conclusions are that the fit for the 0 minute time point is much better than the one at 50 minutes. Since only one species is present for the former the apparent values are "averaged" for one species.
• the 50 minute time point represents the averaging of not only the native and denatured species but also various size aggregates that formed because the temperature utilized was approximately 6°C greater than its T m value. Nevertheless the fits were quite good.

Landscapes

• Health & Medical Sciences (AREA)
• Immunology (AREA)
• Life Sciences & Earth Sciences (AREA)
• Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
• Molecular Biology (AREA)
• Biomedical Technology (AREA)
• Chemical & Material Sciences (AREA)
• Hematology (AREA)
• Urology & Nephrology (AREA)
• Food Science & Technology (AREA)
• Biochemistry (AREA)
• Cell Biology (AREA)
• Biotechnology (AREA)
• Medicinal Chemistry (AREA)
• Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
• Analytical Chemistry (AREA)
• Microbiology (AREA)
• General Health & Medical Sciences (AREA)
• General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
• Pathology (AREA)
• Investigating, Analyzing Materials By Fluorescence Or Luminescence (AREA)
• Measuring Or Testing Involving Enzymes Or Micro-Organisms (AREA)
• Investigating Or Analysing Biological Materials (AREA)
• Investigating Or Analysing Materials By The Use Of Chemical Reactions (AREA)

Priority Applications (9)

Applications Claiming Priority (2)

Publications (2)

Family

ID=23819671

Family Applications (1)

Country Status (13)

Cited By (1)

Families Citing this family (11)

Family Cites Families (9)

• 1999
  • 1999-12-09 US US09/458,172 patent/US6582907B1/en not_active Expired - Fee Related
• 2000
  • 2000-12-07 WO PCT/US2000/042642 patent/WO2001044817A2/en not_active Ceased
  • 2000-12-07 DE DE60010323T patent/DE60010323T2/de not_active Expired - Fee Related
  • 2000-12-07 EP EP00992663A patent/EP1236047B1/en not_active Expired - Lifetime
  • 2000-12-07 CA CA002392239A patent/CA2392239A1/en not_active Abandoned
  • 2000-12-07 DK DK00992663T patent/DK1236047T3/da active
  • 2000-12-07 ES ES00992663T patent/ES2218280T3/es not_active Expired - Lifetime
  • 2000-12-07 PT PT00992663T patent/PT1236047E/pt unknown
  • 2000-12-07 TR TR2004/01075T patent/TR200401075T4/xx unknown
  • 2000-12-07 AT AT00992663T patent/ATE265684T1/de not_active IP Right Cessation
  • 2000-12-07 AU AU45198/01A patent/AU777163B2/en not_active Ceased
  • 2000-12-07 JP JP2001545854A patent/JP2003517609A/ja active Pending
  • 2000-12-07 HK HK02108073.1A patent/HK1047158B/en not_active IP Right Cessation
• 2003
  • 2003-05-27 US US10/445,513 patent/US20030219820A1/en not_active Abandoned

Also Published As

Similar Documents

Legal Events