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  • Biochemistry

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  • Short half-life proteins are critical regulators of cellular processes like cell cycle, transcription, and apoptosis.
  • Traditional methods for measuring protein half-life are time-consuming and labor-intensive, hindering the identification of novel regulatory pathways.
  • Understanding protein turnover is essential for deciphering cellular functions and disease mechanisms.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a high-content screening pipeline for identifying novel regulators of short half-life proteins.
  • To create a protein stability probe using fluorescently tagged short half-life proteins for quantitative analysis.
  • To accelerate the discovery of compounds that modulate the stability of key proteins like c-MYC (MYC) and myeloid cell leukemia 1 (MCL1).

Main Methods:

  • Development of a protein stability probe by fusing short half-life proteins (c-MYC and MCL1) to Venus fluorescent protein.
  • Implementation of a high-content screening pipeline utilizing automated confocal microscopy and image analysis.
  • Screening of a kinase inhibitor library to identify regulators of MYC-Venus stability and validating findings with endogenous MYC and MCL1.

Main Results:

  • The MYC-Venus probe and automated pipeline successfully quantified protein stability based on fluorescence intensity and distribution.
  • Screening identified known and novel kinases that regulate MYC stability, increasing the half-life of both MYC-Venus and endogenous MYC.
  • The pipeline and probe were validated using MCL1-Venus, demonstrating increased Venus-positive cells upon treatment with known MCL1-stabilizing inhibitors.

Conclusions:

  • The developed automated microscopy and image analysis pipeline, combined with protein stability probes, provides a rapid and quantitative method for identifying regulators of short half-life proteins.
  • This approach significantly overcomes the limitations of traditional methods, enabling efficient discovery in protein turnover research.
  • The findings validate the utility of fluorescent protein fusions and high-content screening for dissecting complex protein regulation pathways.