Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a platform for assessing sphingolipid kinase inhibitors
By
Yugesh Kharel,
Sayeh Agah,
Tao Huang,
Anna J. Mendelson,
Oluwafunmilayo T. Eletu,
Peter Barkey-Bircann,
James Gesualdi,
Jeffrey S. Smith,
Webster L. Santos,
Kevin R. Lynch
Posted 11 Jun 2017
bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/148858
(published DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0192179)
Successful medicinal chemistry campaigns to discover and improve sphingosine kinase inhibitors require a robust assay for screening chemical libraries and for determining rank order potencies. Existing assays for these enzymes are laborious, expensive and/or low throughput. The toxicity of excessive levels of phosphorylated sphingoid bases for the budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, affords an assay wherein inhibitors added to the culture media rescue growth in a dose-dependent fashion. Herein, we describe our adaptation of a simple, inexpensive, and high throughput assay for assessing inhibitors of sphingosine kinase types 1 and 2 as well as ceramide kinase and for testing enzymatic activity of sphingosine kinase type 2 mutants. The assay was validated using recombinant enzymes and generally agrees with rank order of potencies of existing inhibitors.
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