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NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 23, Issue 5, Pages 622-627Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nbt1090
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The potential of protein microarrays(1) in high-throughput screening (HTS) still remains largely unfulfilled, essentially because of the difficulty of extracting meaningful, quantitative data from such experiments(2,3). In the particular case of enzyme microarrays(3), low-molecular-weight fluorescent affinity labels(4-10) (FALs) can function as ideally suited activity probes of the microarrayed enzymes. FALs form covalent bonds with enzymes in an activity-dependent manner and therefore can be used to characterize enzyme activity at each enzyme's address, as predetermined by the microarraying process(11). Relying on this principle(3), we introduce herein thematic enzyme microarrays (TEMA). In a kinetic setup we used TEMAs to determine the full set of kinetic constants and the reaction mechanism between the microarrayed enzymes ( the theme of the microarray) and a family-wide FAL. Based on this kinetic understanding, in an HTS setup we established the practical and theoretical methodology for quantitative, multiplexed determination of the inhibition profile of compounds from a chemical library against each microarrayed enzyme. Finally, in a validation setup, K-i(app) values and inhibitor profiles were confirmed and refined.
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