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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 92, Issue 20, Pages 13936-13944Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c02828
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21735003, 21527811, 21605098]
- Award for Team Leader Program of Taishan Scholars of Shandong Province, China
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The fat mass and obesity-associated enzyme (FTO) can catalyze the demethylation of N-6-methyladenosine (m(6)A) residues in mRNA, regulates the cellular level of (m(6)A) modification, and plays a critical role in human obesity and cancers. Herein, we develop a single-quantum-dot (QD)-based fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) sensor for the identification of specific FTO demethylase inhibitors. The FTO-mediated demethylation of m(6)A can induce the cleavage of demethylated DNA to generate the biotinylated DNA fragments, which may function as capture probes to assemble the Cy5-labeled reporter probes onto the QD surface, enabling the occurrence of FRET between the QD and Cy5. The presence of inhibitors can inhibit the FTO demethylation and consequently abolish FRET between the QD and Cy5. The inhibition effect of inhibitors upon FTO demethylation can be simply evaluated by monitoring the decrease of Cy5 counts. We use this nanosensor to screen several small-molecule inhibitors and identify diacerein as a highly selective inhibitor of FTO. Diacerein can inhibit the demethylation activity of endogenous FTO in HeLa cells. Interestingly, diacerein is neither a structural mimic of 2-oxoglutarate (2-OG) nor a chelator of metal ions, and it can selectively inhibit FTO demethylation by competitively binding the m(6)A-containing substrate.
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