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Antonius P A Janssen1, Daan van der Vliet1, Alexander T Bakker1
1Department of Molecular Physiology, LIC , Leiden University , Leiden , The Netherlands.
Abstract:
Endocannabinoids, an important class of signaling lipids involved in health and disease, are predominantly synthesized and metabolized by enzymes of the serine hydrolase superfamily. Activity-based protein profiling (ABPP) using fluorescent probes, such as fluorophosphonate (FP)-TAMRA and β-lactone-based MB064, enables drug discovery activities for serine hydrolases. FP-TAMRA and MB064 have distinct, albeit partially overlapping, target profiles but cannot be used in conjunction due to overlapping excitation/emission spectra. We therefore synthesized a novel FP-probe with a green BODIPY as a fluorescent tag and studied its labeling profile in mouse proteomes. Surprisingly, we found that the reporter tag plays an important role in the binding potency and selectivity of the probe. A multiplexed ABPP assay was developed in which a probe cocktail of FP-BODIPY and MB064 visualized most endocannabinoid serine hydrolases in mouse brain proteomes in a single experiment. The multiplexed ABPP assay was employed to profile endocannabinoid hydrolase inhibitor activity and selectivity in the mouse brain.
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